New York City Marathon: Live Updates From the 50th Running
After a year’s hiatus, the New York City Marathon returns Sunday morning in plenty of its glory.
As dawn breaks, tens of thousands of participants will descend on Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island and wait for the sound of the cannons that will send the fast and the slow, those on two legs, or one, or none at all, or in wheelchairs, over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge for the start of the 26.2-mile journey to Central Park.
Because of the pandemic, this 50th running of the marathon is a smaller affair than usual, with roughly 30,000 participants instead of the usual stampede of more than 50,000. But after a year when mass running events all but disappeared, that feels like a mere detail. A throng of humanity will once more venture through five boroughs, chasing a coveted finisher’s medal, in front of hundreds of thousands of family, friends and strangers, while trying to grasp something else as well — a New York that existed before that is slowly rising again.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/07/sports/nyc-marathon-live-updates