Posts Tagged ‘new york city marathon’

New York City Marathon Odds & Ends

* Mary Keitany demonstrated why the one piece of advice you get from every marathoner before every race is, “Don’t go out too fast.”

* Meb Keflezighi ran a personal best, even without the help of Meat Vitale.

* New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman drove the NYC Marathon course last week. It took him 3:01.

* The New York Times Magazine cartoonist Christopher Niemann “live-sketched” the marathon while running it.

* Olympic speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno after running a 3:25:14 - “The last 6.2 miles are gruesome; my body isn’t designed for this.”

* Fellow Olympian and Subway sandwich endorser Michael Phelps on whether he would ever try the marathon: “Run in the marathon? [Laughs.] No shot. Not ever. Nope. Never.”

* Shut out of the NYC Marathon? Fuhgeddaboudit! The Brooklyn Marathon is only two weeks away.

You Can’t Be an Elite Runner Without This, Uh, Blender?

I’m happy (and baffled) to inform you that Magic Bullet has created an exclusive co-branded orange and blue ING NEW YORK CITY MARATHON MAGIC BULLET blender.

The press release tells us:

The exclusive 12-piece configuration was designed with the long distance runner in mind. The special edition “ING New York City Marathon Magic Bullet” includes a generously oversized Marathon Mug and Flip-Top Lid. Also included, the first-ever MAGIC BULLET® Recipes for Runners Guide: healthy and delicious meals, smoothies and shakes designed to optimize performance, improve endurance and accelerate recovery during training for a marathon.

Not only that, it crushes fruit!

And You Thought Your First Marathon Was Rough

Wall Street Journal reporter Shelly Banjo ran her first marathon in New York City last Sunday. She’ll never forget it, for a couple of reasons:

Crossing the same finish line I had watched on TV for so many years prior, I began to hyperventilate. All the emotions I had felt over the past few hours and last four months washed over me and I burst into tears. There I was, hobbling across the finish line.

With adrenaline still pumping, I was euphoric to have finished ten seconds ahead of my goal time of 3:50. Celebrating with my friends and family, I had a couple of beers and returned to my apartment. I had been so focused on finishing the race that it never occurred to me to also take care of myself afterward.

Big mistake. When I returned to my apartment, I almost died. In the bathtub.

The idea was to soothe my aching muscles with hot water, but the exhaustion and dehydration from the race was all too much for my body to handle. Standing up in tub, I fainted and knocked the shower curtain off the rod — landing face down in the water.

My 66-year-old father, a doctor, found me without a pulse and unconscious, drowning in bathwater just hours after my 26.2-mile triumph. He pulled me out of the tub and gave me mouth to mouth resuscitation. Minutes later I had recovered, without any recollection of the trauma.

Scared and distraught, my parents demanded I never run a marathon again. They didn’t want to even think about what would have happened if they hadn’t been in my apartment.

I, on the other hand, am already looking toward my next goal: running fast enough in my next race to qualify for the Boston Marathon.

Not One, But Two Time-Lapse Videos of NYC Marathon!

You get your pick. The shorter, aerial view of the start on the Verrazano…

…or the longer, ground-level view of the entire race, well, almost.

Best Marathoner on the Celebrity Fringe

Here’s a scoop for you. Which celebrity runner was the fastest of them all in yesterday’s New York City marathon?

I’ll give you some time to Google your time away looking for the answer. I’ll even help you with links to some of the dozens of articles and blog posts devoted to New York’s celebrity marathoners.

Bleacher Report ranked them before the race.

USA Today has the finishing times for most of them.

That’s Fit has the most comprehensive list but they miss out on the fastest, too.

Find it yet?

No?

Keep looking.

No, it wasn’t Ryan Sutter from The Bachelorette.

For that matter, it wasn’t even Haile Gebrselassie.

It’s not a trick question. He’s more of a celebrity than many who made the list.

Give up?

It was this guy:

He’s 38-year-old actor Kirk Acevedo, best known these days for portraying FBI agent Charlie Francis on the Fox drame Fringe.

He ran the New York City Marathon yesterday in 3:00:08 – a 6:53 pace. Maybe he didn’t get any press because he spends so much of his time in an alternate universe.

This Space For Rent

Piggybacking on yesterday’s post on the debate over just how annoying New York City Marathoners are, this news is sure to have those Huffington Post guys worked up. Former colleague Rachel Sklar and her friend Emily Gannett have sold advertising space on their bodies during the marathon. They are doing it to raise money for Camp Interactive, a New York charity for inner-city youth.

Rachel’s rear end went for $500.

What Do You Do With an Elephant With Three Balls?

Walk him and pitch to the rhino.

That old joke came to mind after I put up yesterday’s post about elephants running and then came across this story about Rhino Boy. You may have seen Chris Green or one of his colleagues running marathons dressed as a rhinoceros to benefit Save The Rhino.

This year, Chris will be running the New York City Marathon in full rhino gear, so cheer him on with your worst “horny” jokes.