This may only be a 5K, but the course is challenging with plenty of hills! The race director is wonderful and the little elementary school that the race supports is so sweet - several of the cross country students were also at the race. Great door prizes as well as age

"This was the 40th Anniversary of the Fred D'Elia Ridgewood Run. Kudos go out to North Jersey Masters for putting on a number of great events on this day. I've lost count of the number of times I have run this race but for the most part it has been one

"Having failed to secure a spot in the NYC Marathon (the only marathon I've run -- and only once), I looked for a race that would be close to home, and have good crowd support. I read up on Philly, saw that it was fairly flat, and that there was