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No (External) Injuries At Yesterday's Pizza Run
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Christopher Robbins
Published Jun 12, 2011
Modified Jun 12, 2011
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Running and eating pizza: it's the sport of kings. Yesterday's 2nd annual Pizza Run saw New Yorkers zipping through Tompkins Square Park on a 2.25 mile race to see who can endure a race that includes three breaks for pizza without vomiting and going home. This would have been the perfect opportunity to test that pizza-cone technology we've been hearing so much about.
According to the Daily News, 23-year-old Peter O'Rourke won, with a time of 15 minutes and 24 seconds. "The pizza was good," he said, "but I couldn't enjoy it. This was fun, but I don't want pizza for dinner." Which is a damn shame because it appears that some of the prizes were "free passes to Scott's Pizza tours!" Despite the organizer's dubious claim that "[Pizza] goes down well when you're running," it has to be easier than the infamous sixteen mile Stroganoff Sojourn ("Feel the Burn, Taste The Beef").
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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