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-as of [8 APRIL 2024]–
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*”ANNUAL RACE RESULTS”*
*ATHLINKS*
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*held on first ‘sunday’ of ‘november’*
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(branded TCS new york city marathon)
(+ formerly branded ING new york city marathon for ‘sponsorship’ reasons)
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(the new york city marathon is an annual ‘marathon (42.195 km or 26.219 mi) that courses through the ‘5 boroughs’ of ‘new york city’)
(it is the largest marathon in the world, with 50,304 finishers in ‘2013’)
(along with the ‘boston marathon’ and ‘chicago marathon’, it is among the pre-eminent ‘long-distance annual running events’ in the ‘united states’ and is one of the ‘world marathon majors’)
(the race is organized by ‘new york road runners club’ and has been run every year since ‘1970’, with the exception of ‘2012’, due to landfall of ‘hurricane sandy’)
(in past years, it has been sponsored by the financial group ‘ING’)
(in ‘2014’, ‘tata consultancy services’, a multinational ‘information technology’ (aka ‘IT’) ‘service’, ‘consulting’, and ‘business solutions’ company headquartered in ‘india’, began an ‘8-year term’ as the ‘title sponsor’)
(it is held on the first ‘sunday’ of ‘november’ and attracts ‘professional competitors’ and ‘amateurs’ from all over the ‘world’)
(because of the popularity of the ‘race’, participation is chosen largely by a ‘lottery system’)
(‘guaranteed entry’ to the ‘marathon’ can be gained by meeting the ‘requirements’ for the ‘9+1’ or ‘9+$1K’ program, having completed ’15’ or more previous ‘NYC marathons’, or meeting ‘time qualification standards’)
*”make it ‘official’!”*
(from 1976, the course covers all 5 boroughs of ‘new york city’)
(it begins on ‘staten island’, in ‘fort wadsworth’, near the approach to the ‘verrazano-narrows bridge’)
(the ‘bridge’, which normally carries only ‘vehicular traffic’, is closed for the event)
(runners use both sides of the ‘upper level’ of the ‘bridge’ and the westbound side of the ‘lower level’)
(in the opening minutes of the race, the ‘bridge’ is filled with ‘runners’, creating a ‘dramatic spectacle’ that is closely associated with the event.
(is this symbolic of ‘mankind’s future’?)
(or at least what we’d like it to be)
(‘competing against ‘former self’ + ‘cooperating’ (?) with one another)
(unless of course you’re in an ‘in it to win it’ and consider ‘sabotage ‘fellow contenders” ‘fair game’ in your ‘chosen strateg(ic) approach’)
(after descending the ‘bridge’, the course winds through ‘brooklyn’, mostly along ‘fourth avenue’ and ‘bedford avenue’, for approximately the next 11 miles (aka ’18 km’))
(runners pass through a variety of ‘neighborhoods’, including: ‘bay ridge’, ‘sunset park’, ‘park slope’, ‘bedford-stuyvesant’, ‘williamsburg’, and ‘greenpoint’)
(at ‘13.1 miles’ (aka ‘21.1 km’), runners cross the ‘pulaski bridge’, marking the ‘halfway point’ of the ‘race’ and the ‘entrance’ into ‘long island city’ (/ ‘queens’))
(after about 2.5 miles (aka ‘4.0 km’) in ‘queens’, runners cross the ‘east river’ via the ‘queensboro bridge’ into ‘manhattan’)
(it is at this point in the race when many runners begin to ‘tire’, as the climb up the ‘bridge’ is considered one of the most difficult points in the ‘marathon’)
(reaching ‘manhattan’ after about ’16 miles’ (aka ’26 km’), the race proceeds north on ‘first avenue’, then crosses briefly into ‘the bronx’ via the ‘willis avenue bridge’ for a mile before returning into ‘manhattan’ via the ‘madison avenue bridge’)
(it then proceeds ‘south’ through ‘harlem’ down ‘fifth avenue’ and into ‘central park’)
(at the ‘southern end’ of the ‘park’, the race proceeds across ‘central park south’, where thousands of spectators cheer runners on during the ‘last mile’)
“final mile”
(“smile for ‘the camera’!”)
(“whose ‘camera’?”)
(our ‘collective camera’ shouts the ‘man in the sky’)
(“ma man!”) x 2
(“ma main man!”)
(“take me as i am!”
(now how ’bout ‘that’?)
(at ‘columbus circle’, the race re-enters the park and finishes outside “tavern on the green”)
(the time limit for this course is 8½ hours from the “10:10 a.m. start”)
“but why ’10:10′? why not 12:12 (PM) THAT IS)
“or ‘just to be fair’ why not change start time to “12:12″ (AM!)?”
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥