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New York City Marathon

71 articles — Coverage of the New York City Marathon — the founding under Fred Lebow, the move from Central Park to the five-borough course, the 1992 Achilles triumphs, and modern-era reports.

Vol. 6, No. 4 · 2002 About The Authors SAL CITARELLA began running at age 16 and is still running at age 60. Since graduating from college in New York, he has followed construction projects… Editorial Staff · 1 min read Vol. 6, No. 4 · 2002 Marathons Across America Thanksgiving Weekend 1995. I had just turned 40 years old. Not a real big deal for me. I had been running marathons for a little over… Editorial Staff · 19 min read Vol. 19, No. 6 · 2015 My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (Vol. 19, No. 6) QUEENS, NEW YORK, April 22-May 2, 2009—This was a fund-raiser for Camp Sunshine, with a goal of raising $10,000. Camp Sunshine is located in Maine and… Mike Brooks · 15 min read Vol. 19, No. 5 · 2015 Autumn Marathons First, a confession: I am addicted to racing, and the time of year is irrelevant to me. Unless a race is canceled because of snow or… Marsha White · 23 min read M&B Vol. 19, No. 5 · 2015 My New York City Marathon Ididn’t know what to expect, only that this was going to be special. Some things you can prepare for, but in a lifetime not many rise… Ken Frick · 17 min read Vol. 19, No. 3 · 2015 Largest Marathons And Their Trends In 2014 at New York, a record for the most finishers in a marathon was set at 50,432. Thirty-nine years ago in 1976, the record was… Peter Harvey · 36 min read Vol. 18, No. 4 · 2014 Running The World Marathon Majors Igot to see the mayor of London, the chancellor of Germany, the pope, and a 101-year-old marathoner. A London taxi driver gave me a free ride… Cindy O. Bishop · 14 min read Vol. 18, No. 4 · 2014 Musings Of An Accidental Ultramarathoner In the late fall of 2012, at the age of 41, I ended up running my first ultramarathon. It was the New York Road Runners 60K… Richard Deitch · 13 min read Vol. 18, No. 3 · 2014 Fastest Marathons By Event And Theirtrends—Women Every year, big-city marathons such as New York, Boston, London, and Berlin are won in fast times. For example, three women’s world records have been set… Peter Harvey · 25 min read Vol. 18, No. 1 · 2014 It’s Not About the Shirt The Shawangunk runners train in the Shawangunk Mountains, which are about two hours north of New York City. We usually run one or two marathons a… Fred Stewart · 8 min read Vol. 17, No. 6 · 2013 The Death Of Jim Fixx “Running has not yet been shown to make people live longer.” —James F. Fixx, The Complete Book of Running During the summer of 1984, while lunching… Hal Higdon · 39 min read Vol. 17, No. 3 · 2013 Fastest Marathons By Event And Theirtrends—Men Every year, big-city marathons such as New York, Boston, London, and Berlin are won in fast times. For example, four men’s world records have been set… Peter Harvey · 27 min read Vol. 17, No. 1 · 2013 The Rise Of Aims Most forms of sport are contested in a tightly controlled field of play: soccer, football, tennis, wrestling, track and field, basketball. Baseball is a hybrid: a… Richard Benyo · 9 min read Vol. 16, No. 5 · 2012 Countdown to the First Sub-2:00:00 The year 2011 was an incredible one for marathon performances. Along with a new world record (2:03:38 by Patrick Makau, September 25, Berlin) every one of… Ortlund, Hudson, And Martin · 17 min read Vol. 16, No. 4 · 2012 My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (Vol. 16, No. 4) BOONSBORO, MARYLAND, November 19, 2011—Until Saturday, November 19, 2011, I had never run farther than 26.2 miles at a time. I consider myself a marathoner and… Mark Yost · 21 min read Vol. 16, No. 2 · 2012 The London Marathon From Inside The London Marathon was the brainchild of Chris Brasher, who won a gold medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics steeplechase and was one of the pace… Dave Fereday · 20 min read Vol. 16, No. 2 · 2012 America The Beautiful You know what to do, I told myself as I toed the line before the start of the 2010 Des Moines Marathon. “You have done it… John Buckley · 16 min read Vol. 16, No. 2 · 2012 Marathon Breakout When neophytes ask what I think they can do in the marathon, I usually tell them it will take three tries to find out. The first… Richard A. Lovett · 20 min read Vol. 16, No. 1 · 2012 The Belle Watlings Belle Watling (bel wat’ lun) proper noun. 1: Character from the book Gone With the Wind, Belle was the red-haired madam of an Atlanta brothel, a… Bill Donnelly · 18 min read M&B Vol. 15, No. 6 · 2011 Punish Your Bones Twenty-two years ago this year, I ran in the New York City Marathon. Please note that I did not say that I ran the New York… John Huebl · 8 min read Vol. 15, No. 6 · 2011 Gillian Adams Horovitz It’s a blustery and cold February afternoon. Down in the depths of Manhattan’s Chinatown, the sixth-graders from PS 1 are bundling up to walk down to… Gail Kislevitz · 16 min read M&B Vol. 15, No. 5 · 2011 Not Quite Cooperstown The best baseball players have Cooperstown, the best footballers have Canton, Ohio, and the best basketball players have Springfield, Massachusetts. So what do runners have—in particular,… Rich Limacher · 49 min read M&B Vol. 15, No. 3 · 2011 Crowded Prelude Sprinters and their coaches devote much of their training time to practicing their start technique. Long-distance runners rarely even think about it. Most of us are… Roger Robinson · 14 min read Vol. 15, No. 3 · 2011 Fred’s Final Lap A dream come true: Fred Lebow (running his only five-borough New York City Marathon) finishes “his” race with Grete Waitz in 1992. ▲ Fred Lebow and… Allan Steinfeld · 24 min read

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