The New York City Marathon is an annual marathon that courses through the 5 boroughs of New York City (NYC). This race is recognized as on the list of USA’s highly regarded sporting events. It is the largest sized race in the world with 53,508 finishers the 2019 race. The race is really popular, that admittance to it for the average runner is usually by a lottery system with most wanting to get in missing out. An important feature of the marathon is the nearly 2 million spectators that line the route, practically having a celebration to back up all the runners and cheer all of them on with festivities all along the road. The NYC Marathon is organized by the New York Road Runners and has been run yearly since 1970, apart from two occasions. The 2012 race was canceled as a result of flooding from Hurricane Sandy and in 2020 when it was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The NYC marathon usually takes place on the initial Sunday of November. The 50th running of the event is planned for the 7 November 2021.
The first New York City Marathon manager or organizer was the late Fred Lebow who passed away in 1994. The initial run in 1970 merely had 55 runners who completed it. Fred then developed the NYC Marathon to progressively end up being the awesome event that it is. The color, the history, the character and the charge of the celebration was narrated in the entertaining 2009 book by the Liz Robbins, a previous sportswriter at The New York Times named ‘A Race Like No Other’. Her book was around the 2007 running of the event. She traced the experiences of both the top and beginner athletes over the 42 kms of the race as it moved through the streets of New York, from the starting line at the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to the finish line that is in Central Park. Her book has sold well and narrated it all so well.
It was probably the 1983 race that caught the interest of so many, particularly a national TV viewers because it was broadcast live. Geoffrey Smith from England was leading for the majority of the way and was caught and passed at the 26 mile mark in Central Park by Rod Dixon from New Zealand. With 6 miles left, Dixon was two and half minutes behind Smith but crawled back to get victory by 9 seconds. Just after Rod Dixon crossed the finish line to rejoice standing, Smith collapsed on the road. A photo caught that moment in time and became a famous photograph named the “Thrill of Victory/Agony of Defeat” image.
The present race record for males is 2:05:05, done by Geoffrey Mutai from Kenya in 2011 and for females it is 2:22:31 done by Margaret Okayo likewise coming from Kenya in 2003. The back of the pack runners get eight hours and 30 minutes in order to complete the distance. The Olympic athlete Grete Waitz ran her initial NYC Marathon back in 1978, winning in what was back then race record time of 2:32:30. Waitz proceeded to get victory in another eight races, still having the record for the most number of victories.
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