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Brooklyn Half-Marathon Sells Out in Record 10 Hours
The May race, which begins in Prospect Heights, will take 15,000 runners through 13.1-mile course from the Brooklyn Museum to Coney Island.
The New York Road Runners’ Brooklyn Half-Marathon isn’t until May 19, but registration for the race sold out its 15,000 slots on Monday in less than 10 hours, a new record for the group, says the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
"Registration for the Brooklyn Half-Marathon was a phenomenal, record-breaking success, selling out faster than any NYRR race ever has before," New York Road Runners President and CEO Mary Wittenberg said in a statement to the Eagle."We can't wait to celebrate our excited runners as they take on a 13.1-mile tour through the heart and best of Brooklyn."
, with a new course that begins on Washington Avenue near the Brooklyn Museum, loops once through Prospect Park, through Grand Army Plaza, then continues down Flatbush Avenue and finishes at the Coney Island Boardwalk.
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Previously, the route looped twice through Prospect Park.
Also, there will be an earlier start time for the race, at 7 a.m., to make way for in the park later that day.
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Road Runner officials told the Eagle that this year’s race filled in less than a third of the time it took in 2011, down from 31 hours, and that was even despite a higher registration fee. This year it cost runners $45 to run the course, up from $25, which was due to new fees for the NYPD’s traffic control.
According to the Eagle, the half-marathon’s records are held by Pat Petersen, with a time of 1:03:56 in 1988; and Cindi Girard-Klein, who ran 1:13:15 in 1986. The race began in 1981.
