The EJ Autism 4 Mile is now in its 21st year and it’s one of the most established community races on Long Island. It honors Eric and Jack, sons of the race’s founders, both diagnosed with autism, and the EJ Autism Foundation uses the event to raise money for programs and schools that support kids…
The Footsteps for Progress 5K Color Bash is the annual run/walk for Queens Centers for Progress, a nonprofit that provides services and support to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Queens. It’s a color run, which means you’ll get hit with color powder at stations along the course. If you want to…
The Butterfly 5K is one of those races that hits you a little differently before you even get to the start line. It’s run in memory of Daniela Marie Conte, an 8-year-old who spent four years fighting a rare pediatric cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma before passing away in March 2020. The Daniela Conte Foundation she left…
Overview The Patchogue Family YMCA 5K is the opening leg of the YMCA of Long Island 5K Series, a multi-race series that also stops in Huntington, Glen Cove, Bay Shore, and East Hampton. It runs at Shorefront Park in Patchogue — a waterfront park on the Great South Bay with a genuinely nice setting for…
Overview The 7 Line 7K is the New York Mets fan community’s race, and it wears that identity confidently. Organized by The 7 Line — the Mets-centric brand and fan group — and presented by Metropolitan Park, the course runs a scenic 7K through Flushing Meadows Corona Park, passing around the footprint of the old…
Overview The Great Easter Basket is an NSRF race at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, and it’s one of those events that actually uses the park well. The course passes the Unisphere twice and circles the Fountain of the Planets, so you’re running through genuine New York City landmarks rather than just loops of…
Overview The Aspire 10K is one of the more established spring races on Long Island, organized by the Greater Long Island Running Club and benefiting the Sunrise Association, a nonprofit that runs free summer camps for children with cancer and their siblings. That’s the kind of cause that makes a race worth showing up for…