New production elements: SPIKE Lee (TCS NY City Marathon Grand Marshall) directing and appearing in show open, Aloe Blacc new music video footage used throughout the broadcast, social media integration in the broadcast via ticker, and Data Visualization Powered by TCS-a high-end graphic comparison of running times over the years.
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Capiraso is running in his 24th marathon. This year’s London marathon victor, Tigist Tufa of Ethiopia, took third place.
She’s the seventh Kenyan to win, and finished with the 13th-fastest time in in NY City Marathon history, despite not turning it on until the final six miles.
Biwott’s record has been one of impressive near misses – a second and a fourth in London, and fifth in NY in 2013.
What he can’t guarantee is whether he’ll be an Olympian.
– The race’s official name is the TCS NY City Marathon, because its title sponsor is Tata Consultancy Services, which is based in India.
Traum has competed in marathons all over the world and this weekend’s race will mark his 56th marathon in all. He won the 2012 Paris Marathon.
Next over the line was Switzerland’s Manuela Schar, who clocked 1:44:57, while her compatriot Sandra Graf finished third in 1:52:05. Of the rest, just 55 runners completed the race.
But the choices won’t be made until after the spring marathon season, and he worries those races will carry outsize important.
In April he was beaten into second place by compatriot Eliud Kipchoge in the London Marathon and then touched rock bottom in August at the World Championships in Beijing where he was forced to abandon.
It is the energy of all that humanity that makes the event unique, the rip-current of runners flowing through the city streets past an ocean of spectators cheering them on. Sometimes he might even do an 8-minute mile at the start of a workout before easing into the kinds of splits more typical of an elite marathoner.
Over in the men’s race and Biwott had plenty of company to begin with.
“I knew I needed to hit that hill as hard as I could in the beginning, no matter how painful it was”, she said. “I’d love to represent (Kenya) and be in the Olympics. I was feeling OK”, Keitany said after the race.
The US uses the model of holding Olympic trials in February, so most of the top Americans are skipping NY.
Meb Keflezighi of San Diego on the 2009 marathon. That first race drew 127 runners and was won by one Gary Muhrcke.
Tsegay meanwhile took the silver medal at the world championships in Beijing in August. Tufa is also coming off an appearance at worlds, where she placed sixth.
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Two members hoping to leave with the big prize money are defending champions Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany of Kenya. I train longer and increase the distance. This is the third consecutive year that Kenyans – who have now won 22 times since the marathon’s inception – swept both titles.
