{"id":352740,"date":"2025-11-03T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352740\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:00:12","slug":"runners-share-their-love-for-the-nyc-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352740\/","title":{"rendered":"Runners share their love for the NYC Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday morning, waves of runners started their 26.2-mile journey through the five boroughs for the TCS New York City Marathon on the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge.<\/p>\n<p>In Staten Island\u2019s Fort Wadsworth Park, around 55,000 runners warmed up and stretched, ready to push their bodies to the limits. Each runner was there for a different reason.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Around 55,000 people participated in the TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The race began on Staten Island. More than 150 countries were represented<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The marathon travels through all five boroughs of the city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cBecause it\u2019s the greatest one \u2014 it&#8217;s one where you can see everyone coming from all over the world. And then, it&#8217;s crazy, the energy, you can feel it,\u201d said one runner from France named Zied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I\u2019m crazy. I love to feel the freedom, the wind on my face, the pain in my legs, so it\u2019s like, I can do anything I want, just because my body can. It makes me feel alive,\u201d added Francisco Nanez, of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Runners represented more than 150 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the best marathon. Very beautiful city, many, many people, and I love New York,\u201d said Tanya, of China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others dream of finishing all seven major marathons around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunning the majors [has been] one of my biggest dreams, so this is the first one, and being in New York is like a dream come true,\u201d Nanez said.<\/p>\n<p>This was Liz Healy\u2019s fourth New York City Marathon. This year, she started a team called &#8220;Check Your Colon,&#8221; part of Fred\u2019s Team to raise money for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One hundred percent of all the funds we are raising today go directly to cancer research, which my life depends on. I\u2019m fighting stage four colorectal cancer,\u201d Healy said.<\/p>\n<p>She said running the marathon helps her fight her own cancer battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call it part of my secret weapon. Movement is my medicine, and movement for a cause is my medicine,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>That energy pushing everyone to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a lifelong New Yorker, this is the best day in the best city. I cry about what beauty comes out on this day, and bringing out the best in every borough in every New Yorker,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the marathon and how you can get involved in it next year, you can go to <a href=\"https:\/\/NYRR.org\/TCSNYCMarathon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the New York Road Runner website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday morning, waves of runners started their 26.2-mile journey through the five boroughs for the TCS New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":352741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,21399,30319,7448,9829,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,55432,62,9294,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-352740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-human-interest","10":"tag-app-sports","11":"tag-app-top-stories","12":"tag-human-interest","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-olivia-leach","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-staten-island","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115486132016123063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}