Team Workouts

The most important aspect of the Central Park Track Club is our coached workouts. This is where our runners do their interval training. The Central Park Track Club holds workouts twice weekly.

If you are interested in what the Central Park Track Club has to offer you should come along and participate in our workouts. We have workouts for the following three groups:

  • Road runners who primarily race 5K to the marathon. Coached by Tony Ruiz at coach.tony@centralparktc.org
  • Cross Country and Track runners who primarily race 800m to 10K. Coached by Devon Martin at devoncoach@gmail.com
  • Field Events and Sprinters and Hurdlers who race 55m to 400m. Coached by Lesleigh Hogg at bolt729@aol.com

Our road group meets every Thursday night throughout the year in Central Park. We meet at the Daniel Webster Statue inside Central Park at the corner of the West Drive and the 72nd Street Transverse at 7:00pm. We run tempo or fartlek-type workouts for a total distance of 5-8 miles with approximately three of those miles being run at interval pace. We split up into four groups based on current 10K ability (sub 34 minutes, 34-38, 38-42, over 42 minutes).Every Tuesday night our road group works out on the track. From April to October these workouts are held at the East 6th Street Track (East River Park and 6th Street) at 6:30pm. From December to March these are held indoors at the Armory(168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue) at 7:30pm. In November we meet at the Daniel Webster Statue in Central Park at 7:00pm. We run track intervals totaling approximately three miles.

During the spring and summer, our track and xc groups meet Tuesday and Thursday nights for workouts at the Columbia Track, 218th Street and Broadway from 6:45pm and, on the weekends, we work out at Central Park or Van Cortlandt Park. Starting mid-November, team workouts are held indoors at the Armory (168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue) from 6:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.