This year and most likely next year there will be no competitions. We don’t even need to say why. What is happening, however, has a special feature: it has made us all more alike because it involves each of us.
And, along with us, it also involves all the world competitions, including the largest and most partiicipated ones. Like Tokyo (first) and then Boston and London and Berlin, all the majors were cancelled and turned into virtual races.
These include the New York City Marathon, which is being run next Sunday. This, by the way, was also supposed to be a particularly important edition as the 50th. It will be curious to see how the next one will be numbered: will it be the 51st or will they decide to elide this unfortunate 2020 by pretending it never existed? We don’t know. What is certain is that, like many others, the NY City Marathon will be held but in a virtual form: everyone from his or her home (or rather: from the streets of his or her home) and, unfortunately, everyone far from New York City.
32 imperdibili consigli + uno per correre al meglio la Maratona di New York
Like our friend Lorenzo Maria dell’Uva who visited us in the studio to talk to us not only about the Big Apple marathon he has run 7 times, but especially about his beautiful “The Endless Run,” that is the most comprehensive and punctilious guide to the New York City Marathon.
And when we talk about “guidebook,” we mean that this ponderous book (it really weighs a lot and has a lot of pages-but also a lot of photos and graphs and drawings, don’t worry) is designed to tell you both the history of the marathon and to suggest the most beautiful routes to run in New York and, last but not least, it is also packed with interviews and memoirs and advice not only from Lorenzo but also from so many athletes and personalities who have participated and who tell you about “their New York.”
If you still have curiosity and have never run this marathon, you can also see it in a very special way: in “Race Day” Lorenzo tells about it only in pictures he collected while running it, with the help of two iPhones. And that is also what we talk about in this episode. You just have to >>>
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(Cover: photo by Lorenzo Maria Dell’Uva, from “Race Day – The New York City Marathon in pictures.”)