Showed up at the tail end of the 'parade' to catch the announcement of the US competitors to kick…read moreoff Marathon Weekend on Friday night in Central Park. "Designed to celebrate and recognize our global running community, the evening will showcase our runners from around the world in a cultural parade. Following the parade will be the Marathon Fireworks Presented by Poland Spring." Parade of Nations with delegates from more than 75 countries and Team For Kids "Pro athlete appearances" - bit of an overstatement unless you're a SERIOUS running enthusiast. Fireworks lasted a good half hour, and went too long most displays, but were actually best (better) viewed from the street on CPW rather than in the grandstand.

Last year I ran and finished the NYC Marathon. It was a highlight of my athletic life, but even…read moremore so was being chosen to represent my running club and the United States of America at the opening ceremony. What an honor and thrill it was! As described on the NYRR website - The TCS New York City Marathon Opening Ceremony Presented by United Airlines, a spectacular event that celebrates the diversity of the race, kicks off TCS New York City Marathon weekend! Following a pre-show at 4:45 p.m., the Parade of Nations begins at 5:30 p.m. and showcases runners from around the world as they parade across the finish line. Representatives from NYC Running Clubs and several U.S. organizations, as well as professional runners and wheelchair athletes, are part of the procession. The TCS New York City Marathon Fireworks Presented by Poland Spring lights up the night sky after the parade. The whole event was amazing, the energy was electric, elevating music, cheering crowds in the stands, and a terrific fireworks show on a beautiful NYC evening. If you're a runner I highly recommend attending especially if you're going to run the marathon. It was a very prideful moment for me carrying our flag and representing. If you ever have a chance to march in the parade don't pass it up, as it's a once in a lifetime experience for most.

Just only the toughest event in the planet-TOUGH MUDDER!! team name "TEAM MUDDER EFFERS" This past…read moreweekend, I ventured out with 11 bad asses to Temecula, Vail lake. The last three months, me and my team have been training our butt's off. I recommend to everyone who loves to work out to participate (at least) once in your lifetime. In a nutshell-25 Military Obstacle courses -12 miles long *Tips-Being in shape requires one thing: hard work. And working hard requires no talent. *Follow the TM circuit guide listed on their site *Start practicing running (HILLS) that is-every location they pick, is an area with Mountain terrain and dirt hills (10 miles of up & down) *If you don't know how to swim, do not do the swimming obstacles. LOL *Buy GU-It will give you an extra boost, and Carb up two days before. *Do not buy new running/trail shoes-your going to end up donating them to TM, most people did. *TM is a mental Challenge, come with your game face on & be a beast while your at it!!! *Majority of the obstacles were all core, and upper body *All about Comradery! everyone was so helpful-Make sure you have tall people and men on your team! without them, we wouldn't have survived LOL At the end, Bragging rights!! totally priceless!!

***PREPARED TO GET SPAM and LONG RESPONSE TIMES FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE ISSUES***…read more TOUGH MUDDER HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE, POOR COMMUNICATION, support@toughmudder.com will take days if not an entire week to get back to you. They cancelled their Los Angeles 2018 event due to weather and basically left people that traveled to the venue in the cold the night before. Their response, here's a ticket to come to a future event. In the mean time, let me send a bunch of spam mail to you from @toughmudder.com @eventbrite.com @active.com Then surprise you with an email within your start time within one of these 100+ spam emails (seriously, over one-hundred emails). So the issue is one of our team members were given a different time for the Las Vegas event but didn't realize that their start time did not match. Having this changed has been a nightmare. OVERALL POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE.

Great obstacle course venue,5k fun run with cool festival at the finish linealso best way to run…read morewith the team!

This was a very well organized obstacle race. I had so much fun. They had almost 15 obstacles…read morespread across 4 mile stretch. They were volunteers at each obstacle and it was pretty easy to check in at the race. They provided water , energy drinks. Got a medal and city challenger t shirt for finishing the whole stretch. I would definitely do this next year. Goodtimes!!

NYRR races are always well organized, making this one no different from the others. Bib pick up at…read morethe NYRR annex is amazingly fast, you're in and out of there in like a few minutes no joke! This is a women's only race #womenruntheworld being the hashtag of the event and the girl power and support really gets you through the race! There are plenty of portapotties by the start/ corrals. Mile markers are clear, plenty of fluids on the route and awesome volunteers making the race a success. Now this is the first half marathon that I've run that involved two loops of the same route and man did it suck. Your first loop of Central Park is ok but the second time around man do the hills really make your legs burn and that mental game comes into play. All in all if you're looking for a hilly half marathon to really challenge yourself this is yours!

Thank you for an amazing experience. If you are a teacher and wish to do something fun with your…read morestudents, I would absolutely recommend booking a museum scavenger hunt at the Museum of Natural History with Secret City Scavenger Hunts. Our 10th graders had so much fun going through the museum on their adventure. Booking with Jared was seamless; his level of professionalism, attention to detail, and kindness made this process a joyful experience. Our guide, Laura K., is truly delightful. Laura is extremely knowledgable, great with communication, and has so much energy! Teachers, camp leaders, youth group leaders: this is the perfect way to book a tour of the museum so you do not have to worry about which exhibits might be closed or trying to figure out how to make the most of your museum time because Secret City guides are at the experts - easiest field trip ever! We cannot wait to book another scavenger hunt. Jared and Laura, you are the best!

What a great team building activity and experience! Secret City was very easy to book. Jared made…read morethe whole planning and booking process painless for me. And on short notice they were able to switch the hunt indoors due to the enduring heat wave in NYC. Abby led our hunt at Chelsea Market. My corporate team was about 20 people and everyone had a great time. The hunt was about 2 hours long, the clues were challenging and we learned a lot of great facts about Chelsea Market. I would highly recommend Secret City to anyone who wants to plan a fun group activity.

The 2011 Race for The Cure will be September 18th, 2011. Registration will open May 2, 2011…read more For such a huge event I am surprised that no Elites have reviewed it just like I was when I reviewed The Macy's Thanksgiving day parade which I was first to review also. One in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her life time. Control is an illusion. You can't control life. There are many women who get breast cancer who have no risk factors at all. You can eat organic ,be in the best shape of your life and still get breast cancer. One example off the top of my head is Peggy Fleming. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/9599825/ns/today/ The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure series is part of the largest series of 5K runs/fitness walks in the world with over one million participants since 2005. The Race for the Cure series raises significant funds and awareness for the fight against breast cancer, celebrates breast cancer survivorship, and honors those who have lost their battle with the disease. If you don't know any other survivors of breast cancer you know me so you now you have no excuse! One way to over come your problems is to help others! Join the cause!

Hmm maybe I'm pretty used to running NYRR races but I thought this race was somewhat disorganized…read moreand confusing. Actually, I wouldn't even call it a race because they don't even time you for the 5k. The confusing part was the start line for runners. I would say a lot of people had no idea there was a separate start line for runners so my friend and I ended up in the walker's area. I wish they told us that earlier or at least on their website. We ended up wriggling ourselves through the crowd of people and caught up at the tail of the runner's line up. Nonetheless, it was for a good cause. The biggest perk was probably the Expo where they handed out many somewhat useless freebies, but can't complain. The key is to get to the Expo early (at least an hour early) before the start of the run/walk so you can avoid the crowds during post-race. I happened to arrive there at 7:30am and it was not crowded at all.

I participated in the New York Amazing Race against my company. I compete against my coworkers. It…read morewas fun but I thought it could have been better. Read on for spoilers of the game. We met at Baked Melissa on 42nd street. The guide gave us instructions. I was late so I did not hear the instructions. The goal of the race is to find items on a list (movie poster, triplets, slide, dog with clothes, flag, big clock, guy with mets cap, bus driver), 3 out of 6 pictures (daily news globe, muppets at fab schwartz , apple at hudson river park etc) and a find of (12 different flowers or 6 different vendors that sell meet). In addition, for extra point, you had to check in with the guide at times square and if you choose to perform a specific task. The event was tiring. We had to run towards the end of the race to get everything. My team won of course. However, given that we paid $35 for the race. I expected more like water to be provided, nutrional snacks a the end of the race, some sort of metrocard for public transportation and better prize (i got a plastic medal and t-shirt).

4 stars only because we had a Dealist (think Groupon) discount and the event cost us $20 rather…read morethan $35 - otherwise probably wouldn't have been worth it. All in all a fun day, took us all over the city to places we'd never been. Also exposed me to the bus system which I've rarely taken.. pretty reliable & runs regularly (should I be yelping the metro system..?). Pretty well organized. We got plenty of e-mails beforehand letting us know how we should prepare (though they were a little ambiguous on the metro day pass- were they providing it or did we have to buy it? Good thing we bought ours just in case). On they day of they ran pretty smoothly, although registration was a bit of a bottleneck with one person doing each task (sign in, name tags, handing out paperwork). There were lots of staff though and they were all really friendly and seemed to really enjoy running the event, which made us enjoy it more. At then end they came around and scored our pictures by going through them with us (liked that - so we could make sure we got credit for all the items we found), and had us load our pictures on a computer being projected so we saw a slideshow with everyone's photos as they were scoring. Funny to see how creative some people were. Would've been nice to have a little bit of food at the start or at the end - annoying that we were basically expected to stick around and order Dave & Busters food since that was the start/end location. It's ok, we just ordered a small appetizer (as we were STARVING) and went off to a restaurant actually worth our time for dinner.