Final yr’s race was meant to mark an additional particular milestone — it will have been the fiftieth working of the enduring competitors.
This yr, runners will face some restrictions to mitigate the danger of Covid-19, together with social distancing, elimination of touchpoints, enhanced well being and security protocols and testing and tracing.
Individuals might want to present proof of at the least one spherical of Covid-19 vaccination or a detrimental Covid-19 take a look at from inside 48 hours of race day, and face coverings can be required on public transportation throughout race day, initially, on the post-finish space and on the Expo.
The place will runners go?
Some 33,000 folks will try the grueling 26.2 miles by town’s 5 boroughs.
The race begins in Staten Island, the place runners will advance north to Brooklyn, Queens, earlier than taking the Queensboro Bridge to Manhattan. Athletes will run down Fifth Avenue earlier than ending in Central Park.
What time do issues kick off?
8:00 a.m. ET – Skilled Wheelchair Division
8:22 a.m. ET – Handcycle Class and Choose Athletes with Disabilities
8:40 a.m. ET – Skilled Girls’s Open Division
9:05 a.m. ET – Skilled Males’s Open Division
9:10 a.m. ET – Wave 1
9:55 a.m. ET – Wave 2
10:40 a.m. ET – Wave 3
11:20 a.m. ET – Wave 4
12:00 p.m. ET – Wave 5
How can I watch the race?
ESPN2 will present reside protection from 8:30 a.m. ET to 11:30 a.m. ET, and through the ESPN App on smartphones, tablets, and linked streaming units and ESPN.com on computer systems for many who have video subscriptions from affiliated pay-TV suppliers.
The published will even be accessible reside in Spanish on ESPN3 from 8:30 a.m. ET to 11:30 a.m. ET.
And what about celeb runners?
Former US Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Group teammates and Olympic gold medalists Abby Wambach, Lauren Vacation, Kate Markgraf and Leslie Osborne can be working and supporting the JLH Fund. New York Giants former working again Tiki Barber will return for his seventh New York Metropolis Marathon.
In the meantime, Mumford & Sons band member Marcus Mumford will run for Kids in Battle and his bandmate Ben Lovett will help the Robin Hood Basis.
Tony-award profitable and Grammy-nominated actress Kelli O’Hara is working for Most cancers Assist Group. TODAY Present and Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist is working in help of the Michael J. Fox Basis and Good Morning America’s Will Reeve is working in help of the Reeve Basis.
Mannequin Christy Turlington will signify her charity, Each Mom Counts, returning 10 years after working in her first New York Metropolis Marathon.
