![]() ![]() Working with leaders at the YMCA Buffalo Niagara Association, the not-for-profit organization which owns the event, Streeter and Leone proposed a hybrid race with most athletes running virtually, but 125 –one for each year of the race‘s tenure– could run in-person. ![]() But to preserve the record, the streak, we needed to do something live.” “Obviously, with some of our success with virtual racing in the spring, we were going to have that component, regardless. “We knew that we needed to do something live,” Streeter told Race Results Weekly in a telephone interview earlier this week. He and Leone Timing’s president Pat Leone started to look for a way forward. Streeter, a vice-president at Leone Timing, the event management and timing company which oversees the operation of the race, felt strongly that the streak should continue. So when the pandemic struck last March, race director Rick Streeter quickly began thinking about how to put on the 125th edition as a safe, in-person race. It was actually founded one year before the Boston Marathon. Remarkably, the Buffalo race has been held for 124 consecutive years without being cancelled, making it the longest running public road race in the world. The rest will be held virtually, or have simply been cancelled.Īmong those six, are two of the nation’s oldest road races, the YMCA Turkey Trot 8-K in Buffalo, N.Y., founded in 1896, and the Run for the Diamonds (9 miler) in Berwick, Pa., founded in 1908. Out of a representative sample of 39 well-established turkey trots tracked by Race Results Weekly, only six plan to stage in-person races this year. ![]() “The vast majority of participants are running with partners, children, other family members, friends, and even multi-generational branches of their family tree.”īut the pandemic will put a huge dent in race participation on Thanksgiving this year which falls on Thursday, November 26. ![]() “As the popularity of turkey trots grows, we increasingly see them as healthy activities for the whole family on one of the biggest holidays of the year,” observed outgoing Running USA CEO Rich Harshbarger through a statement in 2019. It’s the perfect activity before families sit down to their Thanksgiving feasts and hours of watching football. According to the running industry trade group Running USA, about 1.2 million Americans ran in a “turkey trot” in 2018, up 71% from 2011 when the organization first began tracking participation. However, there were still some signs of weakness in Real’s defence and the fact that Basel managed five shots on target to the home side’s nine will not have pleased Ancelotti.Upcoming Races Latest Results Find A Race Race Calendar Running News Daily Weekly Top Ten The Oldest Continuous Road Race In The World, YMCA Buffalo Turkey Trot 8-K, Will Be Held For A Record 125th Straight Year This YearĮach year on Thanksgiving Day more Americans participate in running races than on any other day. Real coach Carlo Ancelotti has had problems integrating Rodriguez and fellow new signing Toni Kroos in midfield but both produced solid displays against the Swiss champions, with Rodriguez supplying a clever back heel to send Nacho clear in the buildup to the opening goal. While Basel hardly represent the stiffest test they will face as they seek to become the first team to defend their European title in the Champions League era, the victory will lift spirits ahead of Sunday’s La Liga game at promoted Deportivo La Coruna. Real, chasing a record-extending 11th European crown, came into the game at the Bernabeu having lost twice on the trot in La Liga and were under pressure to produce a convincing performance in front of their demanding fans. Karim Benzema completed the scoring in the 79th minute when he lashed a left-foot shot into the net off the underside of the crossbar as Real became the first club to score 1,000 goals in European competition. ![]()
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