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Males’s Journal is partnering with Take the Bridge to help its ninth anniversary race in New York Metropolis on July 18th, 2024. We love celebrating disrupters. With this collab, we hope to encourage individuals to run for the enjoyable of it—whether or not you are bored with the rigmarole of marathon coaching or simply wish to rip by the streets of NYC at night time.
It’s a part of a broader summer time activation—Summer time of No Fomo, powered by 5 Hour Power—we’re headlining to encourage women and men to be energetic individuals of their lives, not spectators.
What Is Take the Bridge?
Take the Bridge is an unsanctioned nighttime highway race based by Darcy Budworth. Very similar to how boutique manufacturers supply one thing bespoke for communities, TTB flips the script on sanctioned racing. There isn’t any set course or barricades shutting down streets; evidently, runners will need to have expertise working alongside site visitors and pedestrians on open roads, foot paths, and intersections.
TTB began in New York Metropolis, which has served as a springboard for races in Los Angeles, Nashville, Chicago and, most not too long ago, Paris.
Budworth companions with a neighborhood run membership (on this case, Boogie Down Bronx Runners) to assist triangulate the course’s checkpoints and bridges (minimal of 1). All race individuals begin collectively and should hit the set checkpoints so as. Apart from that, the route is completely as much as individuals to get to the end line first. The great thing about this format is it ranges the taking part in area. It’s not the quickest runners coming in first, per se, however somewhat the savviest runners who actually know their metropolis streets.
The race’s begin level and time is emailed to runners the night time earlier than the race, and checkpoints are revealed at race check-in the night time of the race.
Methods to Signal Up for Take the Bridge’s ninth Anniversary Race
To rejoice its ninth anniversary, TTB is tackling the George Washington Bridge for the primary time. The roughly 10K race will begin and finish within the Bronx, with an after-party to observe.
This 12 months, winners within the males, ladies, and non-binary classes will take dwelling the next money prizes, respectively:
1st: $5002nd: $2503rd: $100PRIME: $150
Males’s Journal can also be sweetening the cope with a UGC video contest for TTB individuals to vie for an opportunity to win $1,000. Circle again Thursday, July 11, for extra particulars!
Registration for TTB opens Thursday, July 11, at 12p.m. ET through Takethebridge.us/race/nyc.
