Race Week Gallery

NYRR Chairman George Hirsch addressing revelers at the NYRR Celebrates the Runners of the Future Gala on Thursday, November 4.
NYRR youth program runners Annique Wong and Abdul Diallo were thrilled to give speeches at the gala and meet running's greatest stars, including 2009 champion Meb Keflezighi.
The famed "Blue Line," which marks the Marathon course, was painted Friday night.
Abebe Bikila Award Winner Paul Tergat giving a high-five to a runner at the Continental Airlines International Friendship Run.
At the Continental Airlines International Friendship Run on Saturday, a sea of faces and a harmony of different languages filled the Midtown streets.
Members of NYRR's Team for Kids met up at the expo. The team and its staff consider themselves family, supporting one another's goals and funding NYRR youth running programs together.
Jerry Schumacher's Oregon-based team spoke about being training partners and competitors during their trip to New York to cheer for teammate Shalane Flanagan.
NYRR's Mightly Milers and Young Runners programs give youth A Running Start by teaching the fundamentals of the sport; the same is true of the free coaching video series of the same name.
Marathoners don't just pick up their numbers when they visit the ING New York City Marathon Health and Fitness Expo at the Jacob Javits Convention Center; they have a vast array of products, services, and attractions—including appearances by top athletes—available to them. The expo is also open to the public.
Runners gathered near the marathon finish line to pay tribute to the late Fred Lebow, whose bronze statue is moved each year to preside over the finish line. As NYRR's president and CEO, Lebow was the force behind taking the marathon out of Central Park and staging it throughout NYC's five boroughs.
The first official entrant in the ING New York City Marathon 201, Michael Parsons, is congratulated by Peter Ciaccia, NYRR's senior vice president and the race's technical director.
Jared Fogle, the popular spokesperson for Subway, will run this year's ING New York City Marathon. Here he holds the finish tape for a new Marathon Week event, the NYRR 5, on Friday morning.
These Kenyan pro runners seem very relaxed two days before the big event. From left to right: Peter Kamais, Edna Kiplagat, and Salina Kosgei will all compete; at the far right is Gilbert Koech, Edna's husband, who will be in her support crew this year.
Three of the best wheelchair racers on earth: from the left, 2010 London Marathon champion David Weir and three-time ING New York City Marathon runner-up Shelly Woods, both of Great Britain, and Kurt Fearnley of Australia, who has won in New York for the last four years and holds the course record.
Marathon world record-holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia (left), who will run the ING New York City Marathon for the first time this year, and the man whose world record he broke, Paul Tergat of Kenya, who won the race in 2005, are as close as friends as they were as rivals.
Legendary wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley and friends visited the Guggenheim Museum of Art. In a race down the famous spiraling halls, the smart money would be on Kurt.
Elite runners Haile Gebrselassie and Hendrick Ramaala were part of a festive group of runners, media, and NYRR officials at JFK Airport Thursday morning to greet Chilean miner Edison Pena as he arrived to run the ING New York City Marathon.
Pena, one of 33 miners rescued last month after spending 69 days trapped in a mine near Copiapo, Chile, was mobbed by media.
A group of runners, including several from Chile, greeted Pena with a special banner and his country's flag. This is Pena's first-ever visit outside of Chile.
The enormous worldwide media turnout for the press conference to introduce Pena created an atmosphere unlike anything experienced before at an ING New York City Marathon press event.
NYRR president and CEO Mary Wittenberg presented Pena with his running bib, and former NY Giants Super Bowl champion Amani Toomer presented a TIMEX watch and GPS device.
Elsewhere today, The Bachelor star Dr. Andy Baldwin and Councilman Robert Jackson joined young runners at PS 102 in Harlem at an event to promote children's fitness.
Four-time ING New York City Marathon wheelchair champion Kurt Fearnley also joined the kids at PS 102.
NYRR youth programs serve more than 100,000 kids per week.
An ING New York City Marathon tradition is the ceremonial painting of the blue (and orange) line in front of the finish structure. Pictured left to right are Bill Rudin of longtime marathon sponsor The Rudin Family, Central Park Conservancy president Doug Blonsky, ING Individual Retirement CEO Lynne Ford, NYRR president and CEO Mary Wittenberg, NYC Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe, NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC Mayor’s Office of Citywide Event Coordination & Management executive director Cristin Burtis, MTA chairman and CEO Jay Walder, and New York City Police Department Central Park Lieutenant Steven Cioffi.
American standout Dathan Ritzenhein relaxes before an on-camera interview. “The last seven weeks has been the best training that I’ve put in in a very long time,” he says.
Among the first-time marathoners on Sunday will be a super-talented North American trio of Tim Nelson, Simon Bairu, and Shalane Flanagan, who headed to a news conference just a step ahead of Flanagan’s husband and manager, Steve Edwards.
NYRR founder Fred Lebow, immortalized in bronze, has made his annual journey across Central Park from the Engineers’ Gate to the marathon finish line.
Toni Reavis and David Powell broadcast Race Week Live—available every day at 11:00 a.m. EDT on ingnycmarathon.org.
Tricia Byrnes is stoked to trade her snowboard for running shoes on Sunday.
Spectators at the finish can enjoy larger-than-life action on the JumboTron.
Say cheese—and enjoy a taste of Grana Padano.
ASICS ads fill the 14th Street Union Square subway station.
This marathon entrant has found peace: Not only has she done her civic duty by voting, but she just heard that the weather looks great for Marathon Sunday.
Defending ING New York City Marathon champion Meb Keflezighi flew into town last night, and today he arrived at the NYRR media center to meet the press, looking fit, healthy, and happy to be back.
Meb chatted with NYRR president and CEO Mary Wittenberg and actor Edward Norton, whose Crowdrise project is partnering with NYRR to let anyone fundraise for charity with one click.
Five NYC teachers will compete in this year’s Foot Locker Five Borough Challenge, in which one marathon entrant is chosen to represent each borough. The contestants and some of their students went for a jog with Meb Keflezighi.
The NYRR events crew is working long hours daily to build the finish-line structure—among countless other installations around the city.
This bus rider is clearly heeding the I’M IN, WE’RE IN ad above him and is following the marathon excitement via the iPhone/iPad Marathon App.
Excitement is building as runners squeeze in their last few miles before race day.
Marathon fever is spreading all over town—the orange and blue signs are unmistakable.
The media center is ready to host sports journalists from around the world—they’ll enjoy enhanced amenities at the center of all the action.
A field of 4,958 runners took off in great race weather for a five-mile tour of Central Park--exactly one week before about 45,000 more would finish the ING New York City Marathon 2010 a few hundred yards away.
The race was run on Halloween, which made for some interesting racing apparel. This runner doesn't look particularly frightening...
...but this Team for Kids member is terrifying.
Nissan, a marathon sponsor, is conducting the Nissan LEAF Breathe Easy Tour through Marathon Week to introduce the no-gas, no-tailpipe, all-green Nissan Leaf.