Make sure to give a "welcome to retirement" high-five to Peter Ciaccia when you finish
Make sure to give a "welcome to retirement" high-five to Peter Ciaccia when you finish
watch this video
ex-golfer wrote:
MelRnr wrote:
But make sure you go before they walk you up on the bridge, because there's no where to go after that.
Very true, you see people peeing off the bridge in the first half mile. Even saw a woman doing it with all that wind.....
Plan people.
I’ve seen people pissing right straight through their shorts while waiting for races to start. It wasn’t the marathon but other NYRR races. Get ready, gonna be fun, not... Ffs, please bring a wide mouth Gatorade bottle and piss in it after you finish your drink.
I’ve been living in NYC for 25 years, never thought of running the marathon, so this is gonna be my first one. All of my friends are raving about how great it is. Knowing the route quite well, I have hard time to see it’s gonna be that great. Again, maybe I’m jaded because I l’ve been here so long... It’s fairly drab and boring, with a few exceptions, Central Park and the last 3-4 miles of the race are the best part for me. The rest is truly forgettable. You run through some industrial parts that you wouldn’t even think of visiting when not running, yeah Bronx that’s you, sorry for being frank...
It all comes down to crowds and supporters for many what makes NYC so great. I truly appreciate all the volunteers and people cheering, did it many times for my friends, but I personally don’t get why people are so hang up on emotional support of people cheering on the sidelines...
OT, from the big ones I ran Chicago and Berlin. Gonna do Boston and Chicago, again, next year... But even now I can say that Berlin is by far the best one. Chicago is close second.
Berlin has the best and most stable weather. The start and finish is in one place. Great park, Tiergarten, near the start where you can sneak out and warm up with easy 2-3 miles jogging. I did it and came back 15 minutes before the start ready to roll. Route is amazing, lots of streets are shaded by trees. After you done, you can be out of the finish area in under 15 minutes, easy, unlike in NYC where it takes you forever, esp. if you checked your bag!!!! And lastly, Berliners are not price gouging you on hotels and everything else during the marathon unlike everywhere else, looking at you Boston!!!!
I just prefer looped courses where the start and finish are nearby. In Berlin we started at 9:15am, I left my hotel at 7:30am, jogged and walked easy 3 miles to the start!!! Chicago almost the same, left my hotel only 2 hours before the start. I don’t know how I’m going to deal with NYC... You gotta wake up at 4:00am to start the race almost 6 hours later, no possibility of warm up, just freezing your a** for more than an hour while inching up every 15 minutes closer to the start line... Anyways, I gotta do it at least once;)
Enough of my rambling: Good luck everybody next week!!! Btw, I’m in the green wave, so you guys up there in the blue and orange waves, DON’T PISS FROM THE TOP!!! Esp. If it’s a windy day;)
Thanks everyone who has posted information about the NYC Marathon as well. I am very excited to be running my first NYC marathon next Sunday as well. I lived in Upper West Side Manhattan for 3 years before but back then I was just a fitness jogger who jogged (8-9 minute pace) around Central Park and the Jackie Onassis Reservoir. I have always wanted to run the NYC marathon since then.
I have been assigned to green wave local competitive start as I am affiliated with a local NYRR club. Do you get any extra amenities being part of the local competitive start? I appreciate any other tips anyone might have out there about the NYC marathon. I have a sub-2:45 pace band with even effort/conservative start strategy so I will try my best to follow those pace targets for the first 20 miles and then speed up/maintain the last 10K depending on how I feel.
Not for pumping up you but how to approach your race day:
Here is one official one for some psych you out:
Man I'm gonna miss Peter Ciaccia's booming voice: "Do we have a clearance on the road?"
I'm in wave 1, green, coral A. Is that same as local comp? Approx how many people in front of me?
This will be my first time running it although I've spectated 2 times before. I've never been at the start though. How crowded/crazy is it compared to Boston and Chicago? I'm in Blue Wave 1 Corral D. Am I screwed?
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
This will be my first time running it although I've spectated 2 times before. I've never been at the start though. How crowded/crazy is it compared to Boston and Chicago? I'm in Blue Wave 1 Corral D. Am I screwed?
Depends on what you’re trying to run. Out of D, anything under 3:15 is going to be tough to achieve.
I ran 2:52 out of corral d with no problem ...
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My first time running NYC so I don't know. I heard from some runner friends that the local competitive has their own corral area, port a potties, tent, and warmup area which sounds great to me. I've run from Corral A in Chicago and Wave 1 Corral 2 in Boston but those were just regular corrals near the front. So far it sounds like this will be a nicer experience at the starting line for NYC.
There are certain bib numbers for local competitive runners.. between 550-999. If you have a bib number in that range you are local competitive.
I'm in Blue C this year. I'm just happy to be on the top bridge level- to get the full effect.
As I recall from a few years ago, when I was in Orange- after they release you from your corral, you walk up to the start area, between the busses at the base of the bridge. There's an opportunity to push your way up through the crowd to get in front of a few more people.
however, after the gun- we jogged slowly in a crowd of people up the VZN bridge... and came to a complete stop for a minute. So much for my pace band :) really throws off all your planned timing. After that- it was non-stop zig zagging to get around people. I was 8 miles into the race and there were still people shuffling along at 10min/mi pace, just getting in the way. I gather these were some of the firefighters that started up front? As noted above- it can be a hard race to run fast.
And that 5th avenue hill near the end is a bugger. Watching Shalane fly up it last year- I was in awe.
Once in the park, things get a bit better- rolling small hills aren't bad. But then the last half mile is up hill. As you hit the south end of the Park, you make a right onto 59th street- which is uphill. and then you make a right back into the park for the long finish chute area... which is also up hill. Not steep- but you'll feel it.