New York City Marathon

Thousands of runners will converge on New York City to race the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Here’s everything you need to know about Gotham’s most iconic road race.

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The ING New York City Marathon is known as one of the largest marathons in the world, attracting about 47,000 runners from all over the world. The marathon's history is rife with hundreds of incredible moments. This year, in the wake of devastating Hurricane Sandy, the race will definitely go down in history.

Next month, the TCS New York City Marathon will be hosting over 50,000 runners, including 397 aged 70 years and older (84 women and 313 men), who will tackle the 26.2 miles. These runners have discovered a fountain of youth: Studies have shown that older athletes can be physically 20 or more years younger than their chronological age.

We looked (in depth) at 30 years of NYC Marathon results. How has performance evolved from 1985 to 2014 ?

Run and do good? Find out which celebs are pounding the pavement (literally!) for a cause.

CELEBRATED distance runner Meb Keflezighi is a 2004 Olympic silver medallist and winner of the 2009 New York City and 2014 Boston marathons, but Saturday night, he’ll be having the same dinner as many of the 50,000-plus athletes joining him at Sunday’s big race: spaghetti.

Ed Caesar on the roots of the modern New York City Marathon.

Watching the marathon? You're going to be hungry and thirsty.

ASICS will unveil a 90-foot-tall, interactive selfie stick for fans on Thursday ahead of Sunday's New York City Marathon.

While the New York City Marathon is known for its enormous field (50,000-plus in recent years) including world-class elite runners leading the way, it also gets its share of public figures running each year. Past celebrities include Diddy, Will Ferrell, Teri Hatcher, Edward Norton, Pamela Anderson, Alanis Morisette and more. Here is a list of notable names who ran the 26.2-mile five-borough race this year.

Jonathan Mendes completed 16 miles of the NYC Marathon two days before turning 95.

November 20th is the birthday of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the first leg of NYC marathon connecting Brooklyn & Staten Island. 10 secrets of the bridge.

The idea of running the New York City Marathon started as a joke for Meredith Parmalee. The 22-year-old was interning at a startup called We Are Knitters, which sells DIY knitting supplies and kits, and found out that there was a woman running in this year’s race doing, you guessed it, knitting. Her joke soon became reality....