BY THE NUMBERS – A Look Back at the 2008 New York Road Runners Season – From NYRR

Number of events: 69
Number of total entrants: 334,855
Number of total finishers: 238,104

Three largest races:
1) ING New York City Marathon 2008 (38,096 finishers – second largest marathon all-time)
2) NYC Half-Marathon Presented by NIKE (10,506 finishers)
3) Scotland Run 10K (6,964 finishers)

Three smallest races:
1) USA Men's 8K Championships (71 finishers)
2) NYRR Knickerbocker 60K (78 finishers)
3) More Magazine Marathon (140 finishers)

Month with the highest number of people who ran: November with 61,319 finishers, clearly because of the ING New York City Marathon. However, if you take that race out of the equation, May wins the award with 21,384 finishers. July takes third place with 19,405 finishers.

Race that grew the most in 2008: The New York Junior League Mother's Day four mile race had 3,319 finishers, which is 1,917 more than in 2007 – well over twice as many.

Race with most finishers in the NYRR Half-Marathon Grand Prix Presented by Continental Airlines series: Brooklyn (5,832 finishers)

A Tour of the Five Boroughs
The ING New York City Marathon is not the only time NYRR takes the show out to all five boroughs of New York. The annual NYRR Half-Marathon Grand Prix Presented by Continental Airlines continues to welcome runners of all abilities to race the popular half-marathon (13.1-mile) distance in each of New York City's scenic five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Every runner who completes at least four of the five races earns a commemorative patch, and those who run all five receive a certificate and a special gift.

Did You Know?
In 2008, there were a total of 20,782 finishers in the series, with 509 runners finishing all five races and another 458 completing four of the five.

Ryan Lamppa, Running USA Media Director
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