“I just decided to make it hurt,” Centrowitz said. “I didn’t know anything about the competition or the course.” The 25-year-old took clear ownership of the lead after 3 kilometers, and never looked back. “
David Nightingale emerged from a four runner pack on the Franklin Park home stretch to take the title with a time of 23:46. Fellow NYAC runner Jon Phillips experienced victory on the same finish line in 2010. “There were about nine or ten of us in a pack for the first three miles. We picked it up a little bit from three to four. It wasn’t until the last 400 meters that I was able to get a lead.” The well-timed kick of Nightingale put him two seconds ahead of Jeff Schirmer Steve Hallinan, and Harbert Okuti, who all finished in 23:48. It also earned him $900.