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Are You Thinking Of Running The New York City Marathon?

Article Category: Sports

Author Name: Steve Johns

I first ran the New York Marathon in 1977. I had been a "serious" runner for about 7 months. My first road race was a half-marathon (13.1 miles) run in May of the same year. It was the Westchester Half-Marathon. I ran that race in cotton gym shorts and discovered why running shorts are made of nylon. The cotton became soaked with sweat, became very heavy, and almost fell off. After that, I bought some nylon shorts. My second road race was in early September of the same year and was the Princeton Half-Marathon – named for the town of the race – Princeton, NJ. On October 23, 1977, I ran the New York Marathon for the first of five times. It was an amazing experience. It starts on Staten Island at the toll plaza for the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and goes directly across into Brooklyn. I remember coming around a corner in Bedford-Stuyvesant and heading up a slight rise to the strains of "We Are The Champions" blaring from loudspeakers someone had set up by the racecourse.
You can't get lost or off-course because the entire racecourse has a blue line painted down the middle of the road. The race motto is "follow the blue line". It moves from Brooklyn into Queens, through "Five Points", and crosses the 59th Street Bridge into Manhattan. Once in Manhattan, it turns north up 1st Avenue, through the Upper East Side, through Harlem, and across the Willis Avenue Bridge into the Bronx.
At about the 6 mile mark, in Brooklyn, I began chatting with a fellow runner and we wound up running together for most of the rest of the race. It was his first marathon, so we had much in common. He told jokes, talked about his life in Baltimore, and kept me diverted from the race itself. We even ran backwards for a short distance as a diversion. At every mile marker we would check our watches and try to figure our pace in our heads. If we had had a modern GPS watch like the Garmin Forerunner 410, all the info would have been there before us without any mental gymnastics.
After a short stretch in the Bronx, the race returns to Manhattan and runs south through Harlem, again. It goes around Marcus Garvey Park and comes down past the north end of Central Park on 5th Avenue. It was along there that I began having cramps in my right calf and told my friend Gavin to go on without me; I had to stop to stretch out my calf. I did, and resumed running after a minute. I wound up finishing the race in 3 hours and 18 minutes. I was exhilarated at the accomplishment. They gave out free bottles of Perrier water (one of the race sponsors) at the finish line and it tasted like ambrosia. I had never cared for it before.
A couple of days later, Gavin called me from Baltimore. He was experiencing the post marathon blues. This was something I had read about, but my post race mood was just the opposite. I was thrilled at my accomplishment.

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