Here Comes the NYC Marathon
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The New York City marathon is this Sunday. Rob Simmelkjaer, New York Road Runners CEO previews the race, which remains extremely popular with runners and spectators, plus talks about how he thinks we are in a "running renaissance," the fun of watching the runners and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Premier, on WNYC, and yes, this weekend is Marathon Weekend, on Sunday morning |
| 0:14.3 | people from all over the world will line up on the Staten Island side of the Verizano |
| 0:19.2 | Nero's bridge and trek through a stunning course spanning all five boroughs and maybe |
| 0:24.6 | we'll hear from Larry Buchanan how many micro neighborhoods it is the return of the New |
| 0:29.2 | York City Marathon the largest in the world so in our last few minutes today we'll take |
| 0:33.5 | some calls about all the things you're anticipating either as a runner in this year's marathon |
| 0:38.8 | or even as a spectator and we'll speak with that of the New York Roadrunners, the New |
| 0:43.1 | York City based on profit whose mission as they put it is to help and inspire people through |
| 0:49.4 | running the organization says that we're in the midst of a running Renaissance as the popularity |
| 0:54.8 | of the sports source to even higher heights than it was before and he is Rob Simmelcare CEO of |
| 1:01.7 | New York Roadrunners. Hi Rob, welcome to WNYC. Lion thank you very much I'm a long time fan of |
| 1:08.6 | your show so it's an honor to be with you. I'm so delighted to hear it and let me stoke the |
| 1:13.7 | phones here right away we can open the phones listeners for your calls about this coming marathon |
| 1:19.5 | first timers how are you feeling ahead of Sunday if you're returning to the New York City Marathon |
| 1:26.0 | what are you looking forward to I'm also curious how you all get through the 26 miles what you got |
| 1:34.0 | going do you listen to music are you like Peter Segal and you want to you know be zen and take on |
| 1:40.0 | take in the vibe of everything that's around you and you don't listen to anything give us call |
| 1:45.6 | 212433 WNYC 212433 9692 or tweet at Brian Lehr Rob you're running yourself |
| 1:57.5 | I am not I have run the marathon twice I actually ran it in 1997 a long time ago a very rainy |
| 2:05.6 | marathon and then again in 2013 so twice 16 years apart but I'm not running this year there's |
| 2:11.7 | just too much to do for me on marathon day I started the starting line you know a lot of interviews |
| 2:17.5 | give a speech to the runners before they start and then I hop in a car a pace car driven by one |
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