Our friends/competitors at Front Runners, who do great work with their annual indoor track meet, host their other major event next Saturday: The Pride Run in Central Park. It s a five-miler.

They wanted to let CPTCers know about increased cash and prizes this year. This from FR s Rob Lennon: “We re offering more prize money than ever — $500 for the overall male and female winner plus a round trip domestic ticket on Continental … and $300, $200, $100 and $50 for the second, third, fourth and fifth place finishers, respectively. PLUS we are giving $100 bonus if a course record is logged.

“You guys have such strong men s and women s teams this year … (so know that) we are also awarding the top three male and female running teams with $300, $200, and $100 respectively.”