"So please, a little respect, for I am Costanza, lord of the idiots!"
[woman cheering for the marathon out the window] "YOU'RE ALL WINNERS!!!"
"And suddenly a new contender has emerged..."
the BEST!
Anyway, yeah it is definitely NYCM, but in the short scene they show running, the road/grass/etc looks nothing like any part of the NYCM course. Artistic license, whatever. Also, LA. I still love that the marathon is central to an episode of that magical show.