Runners trot around clock tower, villages

Bill San Antonio

Eighty-five runners participated in the first Rallye Group Clock Tower Trot on Sunday morning through the Roslyn historic village and parts of Roslyn Harbor.

The race began at 55 Lumber Road with the sound of the starting gun, fired by Roslyn resident and Nassau County Legislator Wayne Wink, and continued through Old Northern Boulevard to the Roslyn Viaduct, behind the Atria at Roslyn Harbor, down Bryant Avenue toward the historic village, down East Broadway and around Gerry Park, past the clock tower and concluded with a dash to the finish line at the parking lot next to Delicacies Gourmet. 

Medals and annual memberships to Long Island Fitness & Training, one of the sponsors of the event, were awarded to winners in the two male categories, Adam Zucker and Michael Reidy, in addition to the winners in the female categories, Rita Sim and District Court Judge candidate Lesli Hiller.

“It brings people from outside the Roslyn area to see what a beautiful village we have and to see some of the stores and shops that we ran past,” said Lonnie Goldman, President of the Roslyn Chamber of Commerce, which also helped sponsor the event. 

Goldman, who admitted to falling behind the pack early in the race, said he “could hear the cheers from miles away,” and would have finished dead last if not for “some last-second sense of heroics on my part.”

When the runners reached the finish line, Delicacies supplied a breakfast of coffee and bagels.

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