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The Flyers Blog is up and running at full speed! Stay tuned to enjoy posts featuring Flyers adventures, events, new members, race recaps, news, advice, humor and more!

See the newest Flyers Blog posts below. Or search our archives by author or category on the old Flyer Blog site -- there are hundreds of posts, including:

Stories from back in the early days of Flyers History by co-founder Jonathan Buck and others.
Twenty different Long Training Run Routes -- many with maps and other details thanks to Richard G (a.k.a. Papa Bear).
And much much more. For the older Flyers Blog site, just click Here.

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Latest Posts

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New Flyer Profile: Conversations with Carla

“You talk when you run?!” People always ask me after I tell them I run with a group of people for hours at a time. They are usually sorry

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Endurance: The 2022 Antartica Marathon/Half Marathon

In 2017, I realized that I was within striking distance of running a marathon on all seven continents. Well, that is if you consider three out of seven already done

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Race Results: Al Gordon 4M and Washington Heights 5K 2022

Gordon 4 Miler Congratulations to the 27 Flyers who came out to Prospect Park. John Whitfield (4thAG) was the first Flyer in 26:31 and Isle Abusamra was the first Flyer woman in 31:01. Congratulations to Diane

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Sneaker Head: : Nike 4%, Next% and More

Like many runners, NY Flyers and otherwise, I’ve become something of a shoe fanatic over the course of three marathons and the seemingly endless training runs. It all started for

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Wonders of Wool

As someone who is miserable when it comes to cold temperatures (my definition is anything below 70 degrees), I’ll let you in on a secret that has allowed me to

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The Reason I Run…

This post is a “fill in the blank”. The reason I run is… One of the things I love about running is that there are so many different reasons why