Sad to say this year all we saw of Le Challenge was a darkening sky and a rushed TD Ameritrade entrant.

Unfortunately our drive to lose lbs ended sometime in the fall, not too long after the ‘07 JPMorgan Corporate Challenge, so we didn’t have firsthand coverage like last year.

But 15,000 others packed Central Park for the race yesterday and today for 2 days of some intense 3.5 mi runs. Financiers DOMINATED the races on the second day, with first place finisher Matthew Forys of BlackRock bringing home the bacon and Katarina Melville of Sumitomo coming in 2nd. Karl Dusen of AIG Investments was the first place finisher on the first day. Goldman Sachs was first as well, first for bringing in 957 participants — the most of any organization.

JUNE 18, 2008
TOP MEN
Place Name Time Company
1 Karl Dusen 17:28 AIG INVESTMENTS
2 Ryan Hays 17:36 LEVY & HALPERIN
3 Ben Reynolds 17:42 MERRILL LYNCH & CO.
4 Chris English 17:57 LEVY & HALPERIN
5 John Traugott 17:58 CREDIT SUISSE

TOP WOMEN
Place Name Time Company
1 Kathleen Jobes 19:31 RODALE INC.
2 Megan Guiney 19:54 REAL ESTATE CAPITAL PARTNERS
3 Jessie Webb 20:30 GLAXOSMITHKLINE
4 Maria Pavkovitch 20:38 WEIL GOTSHAL
5 Natalie Gingerich 20:46 RODALE INC.

JUNE 19, 2008

TOP MEN
Place Name Time Company
1 Matthew Forys 17:25 BLACKROCK
2 Francis Corrigan 17:30 THOMSON REUTERS
3 Chris Ellis-Ferrara 17:51 ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN LP
4 Mark Olivier 17:54 TEAM PFIZER (PGRD)
5 Dean Charette 17:59 UBS

TOP WOMEN
Place Name Time Company
1 Caitlin Tormey 20:06 CHRISTIES INC
2 Katarina Melville 20:07 SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
3 Arianne Field 20:36 JPMORGAN CHASE
4 Ana Segura 21:09 BBVA
5 Jen Zehr 21:44 D. E. SHAW & CO.

All we can bring you in terms of coverage is culled from the internet at large.

> Chicks from the NYC race
> Barclays runners in the Singapore race
> JPMCC-Frankfurt was the largest race in the WORLD with 73k+ participants … some very into t-shirts (we feel you)