Posted on 11/06/2021 1:30:46 AM PDT by blueplum
A limited field of 33,000 runners will jog off the Verrazzano Bridge and wind its way toward Central Park on Sunday as the New York City Marathon returns for its 50th edition after being wiped out in 2020 by the coronavirus pandemic
...The race's 1970 debut — staged entirely in Central Park — hardly resembled the five-borough track that has drawn millions into the Big Apple's streets on the first Sunday of nearly every November since. Adaptation, though, has seemingly always enabled the second oldest of the world's marathon majors to do more of what it does best — inspire and celebrate.
The 50th edition of the NYC Marathon will certainly test that.
...The starting format was altered, too, with a fifth wave added to space out runners as they bus or ferry to the starting line in Staten Island...
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Do they all have to run in masks and/or show proof of vaccination? Funny how certain “super spreader” events are tolerated by the left (when it benefits their lefty city). Does anyone think they are this packed in at Sturgis?
“But all my friends are doing it”
“If all your friends jogged off a bridge.....”
“But all my friends are doing it”
“If all your friends jogged off a bridge.....”
What is going on lately. I’m seeing double posts all over the place, now I just double posted - not my doing.
It seems to randomly come and go.
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