I ran the South Nyack 10-Miler in 60:53 on September 8, 2024.
That was ninth overall and first in the men's 40–44 age group.
Paul Thompson wrote a public race report three days later. His account gives more detail than the result line. He said I opened near 5:45 pace, settled around six-minute pace, watched my heart rate, and accelerated late.
Paul's report is the current public source for both the result and the pacing. An official event result should still be recovered, but the account is detailed, dated, and written by somebody who was at the race.
That is a simple race plan when written after the fact. Start fast. Settle. Check the effort. Finish faster.
The useful part is that the pacing detail comes from somebody who was there and knew how I trained. Paul also wrote that we had trained together through the first pandemic year. That connects the 2024 race to a longer Hudson Valley running relationship without requiring private messages or a made-up scene.
That history helps explain why he noticed the way I was running. It does not give this article permission to describe where we lived, every route we used, or private conversations from 2020. The public claim is that we trained together through that year.
The 60:53 result works out to a little over six minutes per mile for ten miles. It came less than three months after the McCarren Park 5K, where I ran 18:44.86 and finished second in the men's 40–49 group.
South Nyack used the narrower M40–44 category. I won that group. The different category ranges should be kept as each event published them rather than combined into one season ranking.
The age-group win was part of a ninth-place overall result. Both figures belong in the story. Neither shows the size of the full field, because that number has not yet been recovered from an official result table.
Paul's report says the opening pace was around 5:45. That is faster than the average for the full race. Settling near six-minute pace brought the effort closer to what the final result required. Watching heart rate gave another check beyond the clock.
Over ten miles, the difference between 5:45 and a pace just over six minutes adds up quickly. The report's sequence suggests an adjustment after the opening rather than ten identical miles. Exact splits are still needed before assigning the change to a particular mile.
The source does not publish my exact heart-rate numbers, and there is no reason to guess them. It also does not provide a complete split table. “Accelerated late” is enough until an official or personal activity file supplies the details.
The race took place in South Nyack, north of New York City along the Hudson. This was a local road race, not a national championship or major-city marathon. The field and course context still need to be recovered from the event record before making claims about hills, weather, or competition.
The place connects the race to the Hudson Valley training period that Paul mentioned. It is still important not to publish exact private training routes or home locations from activity data. South Nyack and the public course are enough geography for this draft.
The public report is also another person's account. Paul can describe what he saw and what he knew from training with me. Before publication, I should confirm the pacing sequence in my own activity data and make sure he is comfortable with the way the training relationship is described.
That check is especially useful for heart-rate language. Monitoring the number is supported. A specific zone, threshold, or medical interpretation is not. The article can stay with the decisions visible in the report.
What does not need more interpretation is the result.
Ten miles. 60:53. Ninth overall. First in M40–44.
I was 40 years old and still running close to six-minute pace for an hour. The number can stand on its own. There is no need to present age as a problem that the race solved.
The 2024 records show two useful local results. McCarren was a short race close to home in Brooklyn. South Nyack was longer and farther up the Hudson. One result was second in a ten-year age group. The other was first in a five-year group.
Neither race needs a comeback story. The source says I trained, raced, watched the effort, and finished well.
In South Nyack, I went out fast, settled near six-minute pace, and had enough left to move faster near the end.
The clock read 60:53.