Picture Connecticut: Bearing Down At A Famed Turkey Day Race

MANCHESTER, CT — It's a tradition to stop at the Manchester Road race each Thanksgiving morning in Connecticut.

You really don't know what you might see.

In 2024, the 88th edition of the famed 4.737-mile race, there was a bear sighting.

The race annually features at least 30 world- and national-class runners and this year, the field broke the 12,000 mark. Amid most of the 12,000 are recreational runners and those in costumes. The bears, pictured warming up near the 4-mile mark, were no exception.

Andrew Colley won his first Manchester Road Race with a time of 21:09 on the rain-soaked 4.737-mile course. Colley, a 33-year-old from Blowing Rock, NC, overcame a gap of about 20 yards at the 4-mile mark to outlast Edwin Kurgat and Eduardo Herrera at the finish line with a time of 21:09. Herrera was second (21:15) and Kurgat was third (21:19).

See more images of the race here.

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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features images of the state, past and present. Here are past images:2024

• A Welcomed Puddle, somewhere in CT
• Hiram Rider House, Willington
• We All Vote In A Yellow VW, East Granby
• Payne Whitney Gymnasium, New Haven
• Daily Train Crossing, Windsor
• The Civil War Train Monument, Vernon
• A Spooky Sculpture, Tolland
• Whalers gear ... in Carolina, Cary, NC
• The Hurricane of 1938 (Part 2), Mystic, Stonington
• The Hurricane of 1938 (Part 1), New London
• Firefighters Memorial Garden, Manchester
• Eagleville, Mansfield
• Island Beach Ferry, Greenwich
• High School Sports Booster Car Washes, anywhere in CT
• The Lyman Orchards Maze, Middlefield
• A bucket of FC, Vernon

• The Bug Mailbox, Ellington-Somers
• All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
• Riverside Igloos, Milford
• The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
• The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
• Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
• UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
• The Doughboy, East Hartford
• The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
• The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
• The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
• The Notch, Granby
• The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
• Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
• Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
• Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
• Fogarea, New Haven County
• Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
• Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
• The first dentist, Windsor
• The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
• The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
• The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
• The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
• The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
• The Underground Railroad, Unionville
• The cow carousel, Ellington
• Charles Island, Milford
• State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
• Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
• The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
• Agent Orange Monument, Andover
• The Sunken Garden, Farmington
• Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
• The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
• Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester