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☆ New York City Marathon: ‘Super shoes’ have ‘blown distance running into a new stratosphere.’ Are they benefitting the sport?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesThe two records in quick succession heightened the debate about how carbon-plated shoes – commonly referred to as “super shoes” – are rapidly changing the distance-running landscape. Today, they are worn by virtually all elite marathon runners, both for racing and for training, and by many casual runners, too. Tobias Schwartz/AFP/Getty ImagesThompson has other reservations about super shoes. “A lot of people say, well, people recover faster from training in the super shoes and therefore they can do more training, better training,” he added. “What I believe I’m seeing is that those who train all the time in super shoes will reduce their body’s ability to optimize biokinetic energy production.

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☆ What It’s Like to Run the New York City Marathon Route
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Talya Minsberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The New York City Marathon is not where world records are set. Runners there can easily be dropped off by a cab shortly before the starting gun, yawn and get going. This is a marathon for 50,000 people who go on a public transportation odyssey to reach a brutally challenging course that crosses five bridges and five boroughs. It’s a race for runners who want to prove this city deserves to be called the greatest on the planet, home of the greatest marathon in the world. It’s a reason to cheer on a random person doing a random thing on a random day for God knows what reason, but hey — go you.

Organizations: New York Locations: Chicago, Berlin, London, New York, It’s

An eighteen-wheeler sat motionless at the intersection of 26th Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, completely blocking traffic in all directions. The New York City Marathon, a challenging 26.2-mile foot race that snakes across the city on the first Sunday in November each year, is the stage for some of the most remarkable athletes in the world. It is generally considered the largest marathon in the world, with almost 48,000 contestants last year. But they had no lost trucks to contend with, no red lights, yellow taxis or blue buses. On race day, like this Sunday, the course is cleared of traffic.

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☆ Kenyan Runners Set the World’s Pace, Chased by a Doping Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Jeré Longman | More About Jeré Longman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Kelvin Kiptum, of Kenya, broke the world marathon record in early October, he threatened a landmark barrier of human possibility: running 26.2 miles in less than two hours in a competitive race. Kiptum’s time of 2 hours 35 seconds at the Chicago Marathon brought him tantalizingly close to the milestone, a feat achieved once — by a fellow Kenyan in a 2019 exhibition — but only by using pacing and hydration tactics that rendered the performance ineligible for a record. Yet because Kiptum’s triumph came as Kenyan athletics is struggling with an alarming doping crisis, the 23-year-old record-holder — who has not been accused of doping — found himself discussing not only what he had done in Chicago, but what he had not. The record time, Kiptum told reporters when he returned to Kenya, was the product of running 150 miles or more per week at altitude, not the use of banned substances. “My secret is training,” he said.

Persons: Kelvin Kiptum, tantalizingly, —, Kiptum, ”, “ Organizations: Chicago Marathon, Kenyan, New York City Marathon Locations: Kenya, Kenyan, Chicago, East

☆ NYPD plan heightened marathon security, citing global tensions
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Rollers and paint are pictured after the New York Marathon ceremonial finish line painting in Central Park in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Local law enforcement will implement heightened security measures for Sunday's New York City Marathon due to a rise in tensions around the globe, officials said on Wednesday. "As tensions rise around the globe, there is a growing concern over the impact it will have here at home," said Caban. Police in New York City adopted a "heightened" security footing for Halloween this week, as other large U.S. cities were also on alert, a time of tension over the Israel-Palestinian conflict. City officials mounted a super-sized surveillance and law enforcement effort for the 2013 race, which took place months after the Boston Marathon bombings, while the 2016 edition also featured increased security.

Persons: Carlo Allegri, Edward Caban, Rebecca Weiner, Aleksandra Michalska, Amy Tennery Organizations: New York Marathon, REUTERS, Sunday's New, New York Police Department, Police, NYPD, Boston Marathon, Thomson Locations: Central Park, Manhattan, New York City , New York, U.S, Sunday's New York, New York City, Israel, New York

☆ How a Blind Runner Trains for the New York City Marathon
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The woman was briefly furious, but her face softened once she saw the tether connecting the men by the waist. Francesco Magisano, the man who had run into her, is blind, and his guide Nev Schulman nervously apologized for the accident. The men were running together for the first time in preparation for the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Marathons are physically and emotionally challenging, but the New York City Marathon has a unique set of difficulties for blind runners and their guides. The sheer number of screaming spectators and runners — race officials are expecting approximately 50,000 finishers this year — make it difficult for guides to steer blind runners along the tightly packed 26.2-mile course.

Persons: Francesco Magisano, Nev Schulman, Magisano Organizations: New York City Marathon, New York City Locations: Central Park

☆ Your Guide to the 2023 New York City Marathon
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Jennie Coughlin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Early Sunday morning, the Staten Island Ferry will be packed with runners headed to the starting line of the annual New York City Marathon. Thousands of spectators will line the route, which stretches through all five boroughs, to cheer for friends, relatives and strangers — elite athletes and amateurs alike. Marathon day typically feels like a giant 26.2-mile block party, complete with signs, bands, cheering and cowbells, as New Yorkers celebrate one of the year’s biggest events. Whether you’re a runner, a spectator or even somebody with no interest in the marathon who is trying to get around the city, here’s what you need to know about this year’s race. Weather forecastBetween the unseasonable warmth of last year’s marathon day and the rain that has washed out most weekends this fall, weather conditions may be high on runners’ list of concerns.

Organizations: New York City Marathon Locations: Staten, New, you’re, here’s

☆ The Best Places to Watch the New York City Marathon
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Jennie Coughlin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The New York City Marathon is a big race for more than 50,000 runners each year, but it is also a community celebration for the New Yorkers who line up along the five-borough course to cheer for the participants. Chris Tempro, a retired New York firefighter, had prepared for the crowds before he ran the marathon in 2021, including writing his name on his shirt so everybody could see it. But the energy and the excitement along the course was beyond anything he had imagined. “As I came down off of the Verrazano Bridge, and into Brooklyn,” Tempro said, he encountered an “incredible party atmosphere, with like thousands and thousands of people cheering and chanting and then calling my name, like for the whole eight miles, nine miles, through Brooklyn.”When the weather, like 2022’s unseasonable warmth, is less than ideal for runners, the crowd support can be even more important. The YouTuber Casey Neistat’s recap of his race last year touched on the importance of a vibrant crowd.

Persons: Chris Tempro, ” Tempro, Casey Neistat’s Organizations: New York, New Yorkers Locations: Brooklyn

☆ U.S. marathon runners to meet with USATF over start time of Olympic trials
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Silhouettes of runners are seen during the New York City Marathon in New York November 4, 2007. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 11 (Reuters) - Some of the United States' top marathon runners are meeting with USA Track and Field CEO Max Siegel on Thursday in hopes of changing the noon start time of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials over concerns about the heat in host Orlando. The athletes want more favourable conditions in order to run faster Olympic qualifying times. "This past February, there was not a single day with a recorded high temperature lower than 70 degrees, and all had high humidity," the marathon runners wrote. "In 2023, the average daily high temperature was 78 degrees with many days in reaching the high 80s.

Persons: Shannon Stapleton, Max Siegel, Max, Jared Ward, Lori Ewing, Christian Radnedge Organizations: New York City Marathon, REUTERS, USA, Olympic, USATF, Thomson Locations: New York, United States, Orlando

☆ The Iten killings: Deaths of elite athletes casts spotlight on domestic violence
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Iten, Kenya (CNN) Martin Tirop pumps his fists in the air as Faith Kipyegon wins her third 1,500-meter gold medal at the World Athletics Championships on Tuesday in Budapest. Instead, on October 13, 2021, Martin Tirop made a gruesome discovery inside his sister's three-bedroom bungalow in Kenya's capital of distance running. In October 2021, Martin Tirop found the body of his sister, Agnes Tirop. In fact, their March 2016 marriage had been a secret, with Agnes' family only finding out after her death at 25. "Agnes Tirop.

Persons: Martin Tirop, Kipyegon, Agnes, Agnes Tirop, she'd, Martin, gurney, Jurkenaite, David Blood, Iten, Joan Chelimo, they're, Weeks, Eliud Kipchoge, She'd, Irungu Houghton, Njeri Migwi, Martin Tirop's, Ibrahim Rotich, Rotich, Tirop, Richard Warigi, Ngigi Mbugua, Mutua, CNN's, Houghton, Joan Chelimo's, Agnes Tirop's, Chelimo, Dinah, Vincent Tirop, Dinah Tirop Organizations: CNN, Adidas, Tokyo, Toyota, David Blood Investigators, crowing roosters, Boston Marathon, New, New York City Marathon's, Amnesty International, Kenyan, Criminal Investigations, Bahraini, Investigations, Investigators, Amnesty, Tirop's, Tirop's Angels, UN Locations: Iten, Kenya, Budapest, Kenya's, Switzerland, Germany, Nairobi, It's, Kaptagat, New York, Amnesty International Kenya, Mombasa, Ethiopia, Nandi County

☆ Monica Puig: How marathon running stopped former tennis player from descending into a 'big black hole of depression and sadness'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

With tennis, the stakes felt higher when rankings points, global recognition, and prize money were on the line. Puig has swapped tennis rackets for running shoes over the past year. Johnny PaceBut the sense of personal satisfaction she gets from running has endured, helping to ease the lingering pain of her retirement from tennis. As a tennis player, Puig always saw running as a form of punishment – never enjoyment. Now, Puig has also set her sights on competing in triathlons, as well as running the remaining marathon majors in Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo.

Persons: CNN — Monica Puig, Puig, She’s, I’ve, ” Puig, “ I’ve, Johnny Pace, it’s, ”, I’m, It’s, Lintao Zhang, “, Clive Brunskill Organizations: CNN, CNN Sport, Olympic, Rio – Puerto Rico’s, York City Marathon, Madrid, Games Locations: New York City, Boston, London, “, Rio –, Chicago, Berlin, Tokyo, Augusta , Georgia, Puerto Rico, York, Beijing

☆ World Transplant Games: The unexpected journeys of four athletes to one of the biggest competitions you've probably never heard of
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Eryn Mathewson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

British supporters gesture during the opening ceremony of the XXI World Transplant Games 2017 in Malaga, Spain on June 25, 2017. Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty ImagesWhat are the World Transplant Games? The World Transplant Games is not a household name like the Special Olympics or the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. The Road Race starts at the 2019 World Transplant Games in Newcastle-Gateshead, United Kingdom. Price is currently recovering from a non-transplant related surgery, but said she’s ready to make her second appearance at the World Transplant Games.

☆ A former Nike runner says the company stopped paying her while she was pregnant and portrayed her as 'Miss America in a crop top'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Nike "takes great pride as a leader in supporting female athletes," the company said. Goucher's book also describes a persistently sexist culture at the Nike Oregon Project and says that Alberto Salazar, a celebrated distance runner and former Nike coach, sexually assaulted her. "My story helped sell shoes, shorts, T-shirts, and bras," Goucher wrote of her time as a Nike-backed runner. "In 2018 we standardized our approach across all sports to support all of our female athletes during pregnancy," Nike said in the statement. We know that Nike can continue to play an elevated role in supporting female athletes and improving their experience in sports."

☆ Inside Nike: Sources share claims of sexism, cheating, abuse at the world's wokest brand
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Joshua Hunt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +51 min

The conservative blowback came as no surprise to Parker, who told Nike's board of directors to expect some short-term backlash. In late 2014, the BBC sent a film crew to Portland to interview several former Oregon Project employees. "He would be at the side of the track calling out runners' splits but wouldn't call Kara's out," Adam Goucher told me. When people asked why she left the Oregon Project, she said it was a "personal decision." "I don't think it has anything to do with who the CEO is," Goucher told me.

☆ A 27-year-old professional athlete landed a gig at Benchmark. Here's how she's balancing a Nike sponsorship, elite running, and working at the VC powerhouse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Vanessa Fraser is a professional runner sponsored by Nike. As a professional runner for Nike, she's stared down American records, competed at national championships, and raced to make Olympic teams. These days, she's bringing that intensity off the track and into the world of venture capital. So when the call came from a recruiter working with Benchmark, Fraser was open to listening. In some ways, stepping back from full-time professional running and adding variety to her days have made Fraser an even better athlete, she said.

☆ Former Olympian Kara Goucher Alleges Assault by Banned Running Coach Alberto Salazar
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kara Goucher won bronze medals at the 2009 Boston Marathon and 2008 New York City Marathon. She twice represented the U.S. at the Olympics. Kara Goucher, an Olympic runner who worked with famed coach Alberto Salazar at the prestigious Nike Oregon Project training group, alleged that he twice sexually assaulted her while giving her massages. Goucher made the allegations in a book on her experiences in running, published Tuesday, and in an interview with “Good Morning America.”

☆ New documentary reveals how Jared Fogle led a 'double life' as a 'puppet master' who committed child sex acts while pitching sandwiches for Subway
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Jared Fogle became Subway's pitchman after losing 245 pounds by mostly eating the chain's subs. He filmed over 300 ads for Subway before pleading guilty to child sex acts in 2015. Jared Fogle became a pop-culture icon after being tapped as the face of Subway in 2000. A random tip in 2015 finally exposed him as a child sex predator. Here are the most revealing highlights:Jared Fogle led a "double life," according to a documentary about his child sex crimes.

☆ New York City seeks a 'bloodthirsty' rat czar: Ad for director of rodent mitigation job to fight serious, gnawing problem is ... actually pretty funny
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New York City is hiring a "director of rodent mitigation" for a salary of between $120,000 and $170,000. Rat sightings are up 71% this year from 2020, according to data from the NYC Department of Sanitation. A rat is seen by a trash bin in New York City on October 19, 2022. Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesWhile New York City has long been synonymous with rats, sightings have skyrocketed. Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch made an anti-rat statement in November that went viral, and became the subject of countless memes, New York City marathon signs — and now a shirt.

The top runners in the New York City Marathon’s nonbinary division won cash prizes Sunday, a first for a World Marathon Majors race. Instead, it reported, the nonprofit New York Road Runners awarded the monetary prizes to the top nonbinary finishers. Last year, the NYC Marathon recognized its first nonbinary division winner, Zackary Harris, but the division did not receive a monetary prize. Harris came in second place in the nonbinary division this year, with a time of 3:09:41. Of the six World Marathon Majors races, five of them — New York, Boston, Chicago, London and Berlin — have recently added a nonbinary category.

☆ In Photos: Kenyans sweep New York City Marathon in punishing heat
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Model and many of her classmates were murdered at their nursery by a former police officer, in the world's deadliest killing of children in recent years. Now, several weeks later, her family traveled to the coast to scatter her ashes.

☆ Kenyans sweep New York City Marathon in punishing heat
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Athletics – 2022 TCS New York City Marathon - New York, United States - November 6, 2022 Kenya's Evans Chebet in action during the elite men's race REUTERS/Jeenah MoonNEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Kenyans Evans Chebet and Sharon Lokedi survived brutal heat and humidity to win the New York City Marathons on Sunday after Brazilian Daniel Do Nascimento collapsed during the race. His win completes a Kenyan sweep of the six men's world marathon majors in 2022. "I'm out of words, I'm really excited," said Lokedi, the eighth competitor to win the New York race in a marathon debut. The year's final marathon major was back at full capacity for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, with some 50,000 competitors hitting the streets and thousands of people congregating along the course to cheer. American Susannah Scaroni produced the fastest-ever time through the five boroughs on the women's side, winning her second wheelchair major in 1:42:43.

☆ How to Run the New York City Marathon
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Jennie Coughlin | More About Jennie Coughlin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Run with New York Road Runners’ Team for Kids: This is one of two charity options available. Run with another charity: The race partners with nonprofits to provide charity bibs. Book a tour: Runners outside the United States can book a marathon package that includes race entry through select international tour operators. Run a fast half-marathon or full marathon: Unlike the Boston Marathon, the New York race doesn’t require runners to have run an earlier race in a certain amount of time in order to compete. Qualifying times must be run in 2023, and times run in New York Road Runners races take priority over other competitions.

Persons: aren’t Organizations: Team, Boston Marathon, New Locations: New, United States, York, New York

☆ NYC Marathon 2022 winners: Sharon Lokedi and Evans Chebet complete Kenyan double at races
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi was a surprise winner of the women’s New York City Marathon on Sunday, while Evans Chebet won the men’s race to complete a Kenyan double. There were challenging conditions for Sunday’s race as temperatures in New York City hovered around 23 degrees Celsius (73 degrees Farenheit). Brazilian Daniel Do Nascimento led the field for much of the men’s race, but he collapsed to the floor and received medical attention in the final stages, handing Chebet the lead. It’s expected that 50,000 runners competed in this year’s NYC Marathon – the first full-capacity race since the Covid-19 pandemic. In the men’s race of the wheelchair division, Switzerland’s Marcel Hug claimed the fifth NYC Marathon title of his career in the men’s race.

☆ NYC Marathon leader collapses six miles from the finish line in unseasonably warm weather — as the iconic race returns to full capacity for first time in years
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The NYC Marathon drew 50,000 runners for its first year back at full capacity, CBS reported. His fellow Kenyan, Sharon Lokedi, 28, won the women's race with a time of two hours, 23 minutes, and 23 seconds, the New York Post reported. Reed Fischer, a professional runner present at Sunday's race, told the New York Post the weather may be the reason for do Nascimento's condition. Weather in New York City was unseasonably warm, staying in the high 60s and low 70s, according to the New York Times report. The race attracted over 50,000 runners for its first year back in full swing, CBS News reported.

☆ At 49, She’s Running the New York Marathon Faster Than She Ran at 35. (A Lot Faster.)
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Jen Murphy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Erica Stanley-Dottin is proof that we can speed up as we age. At 48, she crossed the finish line of the Berlin Marathon in September in a time of 2 hours, 52 minutes and 5 seconds. That made her one of a handful of U.S.-born African-American women to run 26.2 miles in under three hours, as tracked by the National Black Marathoners Association. Now 49, she wants to clock a 2-hour, 48-minute race at the New York City Marathon on Sunday.

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