| At 8 a.m. this Saturday, the 40th NYRR New York Mini 10K kicks off a busy day in New York when thousands of women, including many of the top distance runners in the world, will make their way through Central Park to celebrate the life of Grete Waitz, to whom the race is dedicated. Grete, a nine-time winner of the ING New York City Marathon and five-time winner of the Mini, passed away on April 19 at the age of 57. At 1 p.m., many of the professional athletes from that race will join Mary Wittenberg, president and CEO of the NYRR, at Icahn Stadium for an afternoon of track-and-field action at the adidas Grand Prix, where – giving distance-running men their due after the women-only morning – they are sponsoring the NYRR Men’s 5000 Meters. Just seven years old, the adidas Grand Prix may be a youngster compared to the perennial Mini but it’s a precocious one: just ask the fans who have already seen two World Records set at the world-class, Olympic-caliber event since it began in 1995. Grete, who set a World Record in her New York Marathon debut, would be proud. Best known for her marathon running, Grete was also a two-time Olympian at 1500 meters, so we hope she would be proud – or at least pleased, in her modest way – that the new Grete Waitz Women’s 1500 Meters bears her name, and that a vignette on her career will be shown on the NBC telecast, beginning at 3 p.m. And speaking of NBC, if you can’t make it out to Randall’s Island for the meet and are watching on TV, stick around for racing action of the four-legged kind as the Belmont Stakes telecast beings at 5 p.m., right after the adidas Grand Prix reaches the finish line. They say New York is a city that never sleeps, but it’s going to need at least a power nap when this one is over. 
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