Sara Hall & Chris Thompson win NYRR Dash to the Finish to kick off marathon weekend...

NEW YORK--To kick off marathon weekend, the host New York Road Runners put on a 5k race for 5000 runners called the Dash to the Finish Line, which finished inside Central Park.

Stanford grad Sara Hall, fresh off the victory in the steeplechase at the Pan Am Games last week in Mexico, capped off her 2011 season with a winning time of 15:56, four seconds ahead of Julie Culley, and seven seconds