Pub Series

Last year the event had 538 Finishers. Sign up quickly (on-line) for no extra charge at $20. We’d like to welcome for the first time in the NER Pub Series, the An Ra’s Mo’r 5K Road Race, held on March, 22 at 10 a.m., out of the Asgard Pub in …

Thanks to all 2008 NER Pub Series participants who made the trip to Doyle’s Pub in Jamaica Plain, on Thursday night for the annual awards/jacket presentation evening. As always it was a “spirited evening.” One ‘business’ aspect of the evening was the voting of a race from the 2008 series …

BY THE NUMBERS ING New York City Marathon 2008 November 2 THE RACE ‰âÂ. 38,356 starters ‰âÂ. 37,899 finishers ‰âÂ. 66 percent of the finishers were male, and 34 percent were female ‰âÂ. 3,153 finishers from Italy, which had the highest number of non-U.S. finishers ‰âÂ. 3,037 finishers from Great …

The morning chill and brisk wind outside Paddy’s gave way to pleasant racing weather by the 11:30 am start of the Shillelagh Shuffle 3-Miler (although the wind remained, forcing the dismantling of the start area balloon arch). Those who survived the “frost upon the pumpkin‰âÂVbCrLf morning activities (volunteers, timing crew, …

Congratulations to the 65 runners who completed all six NER Pub Series races and will be receiving a jacket, from Reebok. If we currently don’t have your size please email it to us at the address below. mailto:nerunner@comcast.net. The wrap-up/awards party will be in early December at Doyles in Jamaica …

For those who were outside Paddy’s Pub at 8:30 am (the volunteers, timing crew, vendors and Joe Brown) it was tres chilly. By 11:30 there was a bit of sun, still a good deal of wind (the balloon arch by the start was dismantled prior to liftoff), but a great …

From Bobby Bell RD Dave “Icky‰âÁ” LaBrode “This was Ana’s REAL time. There were a couple of screw ups. Buddy Hubert ran with Ana’s number while somehow Ana wound up with some else’s number.” 29   7/25   ANA HUBERT            F    42 MELROSE MA          33:06.1 37:36.9 Previously posted on NER: The season …

It was a beautiful sun splashed day at the Lasting Room Pub & Grill hard by the Merrimac River, and what wasn’t there to like about the Lasting Room’s outside upper deck facing the river. Suh-weet! Congrats to Reebok profiler and styler Mara Lappin on her first Series win. Mara …

How’s this for back-to-back Pub scenarios. Residence in the Oktoberfest Beer Garden at the Hartford Marathon on Saturday and then the sun splashed back deck of the Lasting Room Pub (or Icky’s Pub & Grill as RD Dave LaBrode likes to call it) on Sunday. Yee-ha! Hats off to 50 …

Beijing Olympic Games are the next stop for WMM leaders When the world’s top marathon runners take to the streets of Beijing later this month at the Olympic Games they will be competing for more than gold, silver and bronze. For the first time since the launch of the World …