On Sunday, November 07, 2010 the NYC Marathon will take place. Runners of different nationalities will come to New York to join in the annual NYC Marathon. The NYC Marathon celebrated its 40th birthday in September.
The ING New York City Marathon is said to be as one of the best road races in the world. The NYC Marathon is a popular event with over 700,000 past participants, 2 million spectators to cheer therunners and 315 million television viewers worldwide. Annually, 100,000 applicants are usually joining the marathon to compete for $600,000 prize money. People who are joining the race may be celebrities, everyday people and world class athletes.
Al Roker, cancer survivor Ethan Zohn, Chilean miner Edison Peña, Howard Stern sidekick Robin Quivers, Anthony Edwards, Ryan Sutter and Veronica Webb are among this year's celebrity participants.
"Almost everybody's bucket list includes running the ING New York City Marathon," Roker said in a statement. "Just the though of being able to start this race gives me goose bumps. As does the fear that the weather might turn ugly."
The 2010 New York City Marathon will follow a route that takes runners through four of the Big Apple's five boroughs, and ends in the heart of Manhattan.
The marathon route begins at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, one of five that runners will cross, and winds through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx, very briefly, before finishing in Central Park in Manhattan. It's almost entirely northbound until a left turn near the Major Deegan Expressway, and then follows a winding path back to Fifth Avenue, where it turns south for good.
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