This year, as New York Road Runners celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first 5-boro New York City Marathon, we’ve created a series of videos that highlight the iconic route—including bridges, parks, commercial thoroughfares, and residential streets. These details are paired with expert advice from NYRR coaches, providing viewers with insights and strategies for race day.
Hispanic Heritage Month, also known as Latinx Heritage Month, celebrates the contributions of Hispanic/Latinx Americans to events in U.S. history and contemporary society. From September 15 through October 15, we'll share stories from our Hispanic/Latinx running community. Check out content from our blog and our Set the Pace podcast at the links below. We'll add more inspiring stories and resources throughout the month.
More than 8,700 athletes toed the start line at the 2026 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile on Sunday, September 13. The event featured 30 heats down Manhattan’s famed Fifth Avenue, stretching 20 blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Grand Army Plaza.
Guest hosts Olympian Carrie Tollefson, host of the C Tolle Run podcast, and Ali Feller, host of the Ali on the Run podcast, sit down with New Balance 5th Avenue Mile champions Jemma Reekie and Marco Langon to recap race day for this special episode of Set the Pace, recorded live at the newly renovated NYRR RUNCENTER featuring the New Balance Run Hub.
More than 8,700 athletes toed the start line at the 2026 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile, the world’s most iconic road mile race, on Sunday, September 13. The event, which has taken place since 1981, featured 30 heats down Manhattan’s famed Fifth Avenue, stretching 20 blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Grand Army Plaza.
Every running of the New York City Marathon is special, but this year’s race carries extra significance for a couple of reasons: It marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic 5-boro course, and it coincides with the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Among those lining up on November 1 will be Dennis Levasseur and Hanna Born, two runners whose lives were deeply affected by the events of that day.
The New York City Marathon became a 5-boro route thanks to five Trailblazers who believed a race could unite an entire city. In the second of five blog posts, we honor Trailblazer George Spitz, who connected visionary runners and politicians to make the first 5-boro New York City Marathon a spectacular, citywide race worthy of the Big Apple.
For this week’s Set the Pace, NYRR’s Gordon Bakoulis—Coach Gordon to many—steps in to host the show while Rob and Becs are away. Gordon sits down with Heidi Skolnik, a sports nutritionist and exercise physiologist who is also a member of the NYRR Medical Advisory Council, to discuss her newest book, “Your GLP-1 Game Plan: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About How to Eat, Move, and Thrive on Weight Loss Medication,” out September 22.
As a parent, you hope that one day you will get to share in something you’re passionate about with your children—and the dream is that they’ll like it too! But the reality is, those Hallmark-moment experiences rarely happen as seamlessly as the movies portray.
