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What started as a race with 55 finishers, now is the world's biggest marathon with 51,000 runners. The New York City Marathon is a must in the life of any marathon runner.
The first event was held in 1970 in Central Park with the entry fee of 1$. Out of 120 participants, only 55 finished and were given inexpensive wristwatches and recycled baseball and bowling trophies as a reward.
The history of this event is rich and interesting. In 1976, race director Fred Lebow and 2,090 entrants took the New York City Marathon to the of the five boroughs in a moving celebration of sport and diversity. In 1978 Grete Waitz, a track Olympian who’d never run farther than 12 miles, won the race in a world-record 2:32:30. The 1992 race produced perhaps the most poignant moment in New York City Marathon history when Lebow, in remission from brain cancer, crossed the line in 5:32:34 with Waitz by his side.
The 2016 TCS New York City Marathon had an absolute record number of finishers – 51,394, setting a new mark as the largest marathon in the world.
- Major event
- The volunteers are comically kind
- Exceptionally well-organized
- The starting area is great
- Very crowded
- Hard to get to the start
- Some hills
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Short review
What started as a race with 55 finishers, now is the world's biggest marathon with 51,000 runners. The New York City Marathon is a must in the life of any marathon runner.
The first event was held in 1970 in Central Park with the entry fee of 1$. Out of 120 participants, only 55 finished and were given inexpensive wristwatches and recycled baseball and bowling trophies as a reward.
The history of this event is rich and interesting. In 1976, race director Fred Lebow and 2,090 entrants took the New York City Marathon to the of the five boroughs in a moving celebration of sport and diversity. In 1978 Grete Waitz, a track Olympian who’d never run farther than 12 miles, won the race in a world-record 2:32:30. The 1992 race produced perhaps the most poignant moment in New York City Marathon history when Lebow, in remission from brain cancer, crossed the line in 5:32:34 with Waitz by his side.
The 2016 TCS New York City Marathon had an absolute record number of finishers – 51,394, setting a new mark as the largest marathon in the world.
- Major event
- The volunteers are comically kind
- Exceptionally well-organized
- The starting area is great
- Very crowded
- Hard to get to the start
- Some hills
1 Road Running races on 13 April 2018 in New York City
TCS New York City Marathon
42.195 km
from $255
50000 runners
usually take part in the race42.195 km run course map
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Expect 50,000 runners today. Road closings throughout the five boroughs along the course, and many supporters along the way cheering on friends and family who are running.
NYRR does a great job organizing the race with many terrific volunteers helping. I ran in their Abbott Dash 5K yesterday as part of the marathon weekend and it got me pumped to start training for this 26.2 miles! There is so much energy and excitement the days leading up to the race. Even the 5K had 10,000 runners!
I just chee... Show full review
Big props to my friends and all that participate in this race as the training takes so much determination and motivation. It's not about how fast you run, or setting a PR, it's about crossing that finish line and savoring the sweet taste of success for a job well done. Fast or slow doesn't matter as you're all winners.
People come from all over the world to be here this day. It's humid and chance of showers this marathon. At least it's not brutally cold. I pray for everyone's good health and safety.
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To all my Yelp Friends that run races. It's not how far or fast, it's finishing that's important!
Fly on the wings of Angels! If you're watching today you may see me cheering for the athletes!!
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Since I was in Wave 3 with a 10:40am start, I opted for the 8:15am ferry, which I naively assumed would get me to the start line with plenty of time to spare. Boy was I wrong! Getting onto the ferry was relatively smooth sailing. I stayed downtown, took an uber to the ferry building (which was very easy to find), and I waited less than 10 minutes before the next ferry arrived. The ferries were plenty big, so everyone waiting in the building was able to get on, and there was plenty of room on the ferry so I didn't feel crowded at all. Btw, there was absolutely no system of checking what time ferry you're registered for, so I think I could easily have walked onto an earlier ferry had I known. The ferry ride was an easy ~30 minutes or so.
However, once we got off the ferry in Staten Island, the experience quickly changed to TERRIBLE. We were literally herded through the terminal station in a massive crowd that was barely inching along. It took over an hour to get through the terminal station, only to find that this experience ended in another LONG line to get onto the buses to take us to the marathon start line. Overall, it took us almost 2 hours hours once we stepped off the ferry to get to the marathon start village, and from there it was still a bit of a distance to our Wave start. So essentially, we were on our feet for over TWO hours before we started the race and this whole ordeal ended in a mad sprint to our wave start. We had just arrived at the start line when the gun sounded for us to start.
If I ever do the NY marathon again (which I hope I do!), I'll allot at least 4 hours to get to the start line! Also as a side note, wear lots of layers that you're OK discarding to the start line. The organizers were really generous about the pre-race foil blankets, but it was still pretty cold. Runners were shedding clothing left and right as the race started, and someone told me that all of the discards would be donated to charities.
The logistics after the race were tough too, although less stressful since I wasn't on a schedule. I had originally intended to take a subway back to my destination, but my legs were unsurprisingly feeling really wobbly so I decided to try to uber instead. After what felt like miles of being herded from the marathon finish line to the park exit, I tried to order multiple ubers and lyfts only to find that they were running insane surcharges upwards of three figures to get me back to where I was staying downtown. In desperation and exhaustion, I went ahead and agreed to the surcharge, only to have the cars cancel on me one after another. Luckily I remembered that I had just downloaded GetTaxi the day before based on the recommendation of an NY friend, and I was able to order a GetTaxi that picked me up without a surcharge a few blocks away from the park. Overall, it took me over 1.5 hours to get from the marathon finish into my post-race transportation, and I didn't anticipate on the fact that it would already be dark!