The New York City Marathon
26.2 miles 5 milestones 45 day goal Staten Island → Central Park
Milestones
- Enter Brooklyn2 mi leg2 mi
- Cross the Queensboro Bridge13 mi leg15 mi
- First Avenue3 mi leg18 mi
- The Bronx2 mi leg20 mi
- Central Park6.2 mi leg26.2 mi
The road.
It begins on a bridge so big it has its own weather: the Verrazzano, out of Staten Island, with the whole city laid out ahead. The longest leg here is the 13-mile pull through Brooklyn and Queens to the Queensboro Bridge, famously the quietest stretch of the real race, and then First Avenue hits like a wall of sound.