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New York City Marathon: Elite Runners Begin Their 26.2-Mile Jog

About 50,000 marathoners will start the New York City Marathon Sunday morning. Most, but not all, will make it to the finish in Central Park. Stay here for live updates and images from the route.

How fast can an Olympic gold medalist in a triathlon race a marathon? On two months of real training? Gwen Jorgensen, 30, is showing us. She won at Rio in August and announced immediately after that she would dive into straight into the marathon this fall, running New York with the rest of the pros. She’s got two events fewer in store for her, but her longest run to prepare has been only 16 miles — 10.