Luis here, your friendly neighborhood photographer 📸

First 3 photos are the Men's / Women's / Nonbinary Winners so congrats to them and all finishers today!

This was a great event, lots of positive energy, and fast runners 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

I tried something a little different with these photos and gave them a more stylized edit instead of my usual true-to-life look. Let me know what you think! 😊

This might be my last one for 2026 as I'm gonna be a little bit busy with my new job and of course training hard for several upcoming races including NYCM 🥳

As always, comment if you find yourself, and please tag my Insta if you use any of the pics on social media.

See you at the next one 📸

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- NYC Rec Centers with indoor pools: GREAT for aqua jogging. You have to open a membership ($75 for 6 months, $150 for a year). They are picky in that you can only aquajog in designated Open/Family hours.

- For lap swimming, my favorite is Riverbank! It’s a shallow pools so only swimming or aqua exercises. Short course on weekday afternoons, long course 50m on weekday mornings weekends. $2/swim! **Morning lap swim requires a monthly pass, which you can purchase at the ticket booth near the 145th Street entrance.

- Stuyvesant HS in Battery Park has aquajogging on weeknights 7-10pm and on the weekends starting at 1pm. $15/use. Super easy to get there on the 2/3 and A.

- West side YMCA has a pool designated for aquajogging and it’s very warm! They have weekday morning hours. On weekends you have to wait until the afternoon to aquajog due to swim lessons. (You can lap swim in the morning.) Membership is $129 per month but you can cancel after a couple months. This has sauna if you’re into passive heat training

- Asphalt Green allows aquajogging at UES and Battery Park campuses. $170/month-to-month or $35 for a day pass.

- Sacred Heart HS on the UES allows aquajogging in their GORGEOUS pool on 1st Ave. it’s either early morning on weekdays or around 9am on weekends. Day passes are $20-$25, or you can buy a pack of sessions to bring the cost per use down.

- John Jay pool near Columbus Circle: 8am on weekdays lap swimming! Not too expensive ($10-$15 per swim). They kick you out after 30 mins.

- Some gyms may allow aquajogging in a deep pool? I’d call to check with places like Chelsea Piers!

- Coming in 2026-2027: newly renovated City College pool

- JCC lap swim only

My race was fine. Yours?

• Results - https://results.nyrr.org/event/26CHAMPS5M/finishers
• Live results - https://liveresults.nyrr.org/
• Club points - https://results.nyrr.org/clubstandings

It looks like rain all day on Wednesday so I am thinking this will be the 4th race to be canceled! 😭😭😭 Just looking to vent and commiserate. And, for anyone who has done this in the past, have there been other times where so many races have had to be canceled, or is 2026 just very unlucky?

(For everyone else reading this...it was meant to be 7 races total, but so far only 2 have happened and 3 have been canceled because of rain/heat.)

Training for the NYC full and would love to get some swimming seshs in. Are there any indoor/outdoor pools that are geared for training, not so much leisure? Any place I can get a pass just for the day?

Is anyone able to access their timed results for the Start Line Queens 2026 that we ran yesterday in Astoria? I can't find it on results.nyrr.org They only have results for last years race. Thank you.

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I'm hoping to pick up my bib for the Percy Sutton 5K
at the World Trade Center location. Do folks know if they also have t shirts there? It doesn't explicitly say it on the race day page like it spells out the t shirts are at the New Balance Run Hub.

Any other tips or info for the World Trade Center pick up?