Your NYC Marathon Questions Answered!
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NYC Marathon Hack Videos
Best Places to Spectate: drtyldsnkrs.com/Spectate
Everything I Wish I Knew B4 I Ran the NYC Marathon: drtyldsnkrs.com/WishInew
2021 Finish Line Experience: drtyldsnkrs.com/21Finish
What to Bring to the Start: drtyldsnkrs.com/BringStart
What’s Different in 2021: drtyldsnkrs.com/21Diff
How to get in: drtyldsnkrs.com/GetIn
Baggage and Transport Options: drtyldsnkrs.com/BagTrans
Race Day Strategy: drtyldsnkrs.com/RaceStrat
All About The Expo: drtyldsnkrs.com/Expo
All About the Start: drtyldsnkrs.com/Start
5 Tips You Need to Know: drtyldsnkrs.com/5Things
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All the best to the runners watching this and preparing for this year's race. I will be with you again, just not this year. Taper well, get rested, get hydrated and get ready. You have a lot to look forward to. An epic day awaits. Jack NYC
I've volunteered at the ferry terminal for 3 years (2016-2018) and ran in 2019. The ferry terminal including the bathrooms gets packed but thank goodness you can literally ride the ferry whenever you want. Your bib says 7:30 but you could easily ride at 6:30. If you are wave 5 and decide to ride the 8:30am, you are cutting it close even though wave 5 starts at 11:30am. The volunteers do not have a right to enforce the time stamp. We are there to assist, support and wish everyone good luck. Good luck runners. I'll be there at the ferry terminal this year as well.
Thanks! Can’t wait for my race!
Thank you Eric! First time runner from Sweden! Thanks for all your videos last year!
Thanks and this is so helpful
Commenting for the algorithm.
Thanks for the help
Very helpful. Thank you.
👏 thank you
Waiting around will be tough but leaving home with a full stomach should help out alot my runners 👍
Plenty to do when waiting around. Grab a free DD hat. Drink some coffee. Eat a free bagel. Grab some energy gels. Chat with a fellow runner and meet new friends but def use the portapotty an hour before your race time.
First timer here! Thanks for all you videos! they have been super helpfull!
Different sort of question... I'll be doing the New York City marathon for the first time (probably only time) this year. I bought a GoPro and a falcon Plus gimbal but I still don't know how you video a marathon. Do you carry a power pack? What do you do with your camera when you're not filming? What do you do if the weather turns bad and it starts to rain? Am I better off just running with the camera in my hand? I'd love any tips you can offer. Maybe you can do a whole video on the practicalities of carrying an action camera in a long distance race.
I signed up for bus since I’ll be staying in Manhattan. Hopefully I get there in time for my start time at 9:45
Same wave! Taking the 7am ferry
@@YogaStrongNYC I think I should be in a later wave though. I put my predicted finish as 3:35 but I will be lucky if I even finish sub 4 😅. Regardless gonna enjoy it being my first ever marathon.
Good luck runners, the streets of New York await you.
First time runner thank you Eric! good to see you
got an idea for the next video(s) from you. how can a spectator follow his runner using subway and reaching many places if the runner take 4h, 3.5h, 3h. Paris marathon has a map for various times on how to use subway system to be in many places during the race...
New York Road Runners prints a map each year showing spectators where the subway stations are along the marathon route, and put it on their website as well as handing it out at the expo.
@@cathynewyork7918 but they don't tell you whether you have enough time to move from station A to station B
@@Yaegosh Well the subway schedules are online -- it's easy to check the schedules and plan it out. I have had an ex-boyfriend and my Mother both do this, and skip around the course to see me run at various points. However I am a fairly slow NYC Marathon runner -- maybe it's harder for families of fast runners.
@@Yaegosh You don't need everything in life made easy for you -- put in a few minutes of effort and compare the online subway schedules with the various train stations along the marathon route. My ex-boyfriend did it -- my Mom did it three years -- can't you do it as well?
@@cathynewyork7918 either thousands of families do this every year or one person prepares it once and for all. Paris Marathon thought it a good idea...
Are you volunteering at the Expo? If Thurs AM I might drop by to say Hi. Thanks for the videos
Sadly not this year. But I may go at some point to film for a bit. Have a great race!!
@@Dirtyoldsneakers I chose your time slot but I guess another year
How about different color of bibs? Can Orange bib person go to Green bib person's village and run together?
Color doesn’t matter. Higher number is where you can run together.
#1 Verazzano bridge is closed for car trafic. Is it available to the pedestrian traffic on the race day? I could walk to the start line this way since I stay in brooklyn
#2 I wondered whether I can take a later ferry if I want to move to a slower corral. Good to know that they not deny me an entrance to the ferry if I can late
#1 No
#2 Yes
#3 Have a great race!
@@Dirtyoldsneakers #2 wonderful news. I can avoid going around from brooklyn to manhattan to staten isla d...
My start is 1020 and ferry is 730, is that maybe cutting it close?
Nope. Perfect
@@Dirtyoldsneakers excellent! First NYC Marathon; ur videos have been amazing to prepare 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Do you need a metro card to ride the subway the morning of the race?
You do, but if you carry your phone, you can always use OMNY, just do a quick Google on it.
I am staying in New Jersey. I could not get an official transportation to the start line. How can I get to the start line? Do I take an uber to the ferry terminal?
You can email NYRR's Help Desk to ask if you can get transportation on the marathon buses leaving from The Meadowlands in New Jersey. If this is not possible, then yes, you can take an Uber into Manhattan to the ferry. It might be cheaper to take the Uber to the nearest subway station in Manhattan and then take the subway down to the ferry instead of riding the Uber the entire distance.
@@cathynewyork7918 Hi, thanks for replying. I am told by NYRR to visit the help desk at the expo to see if I can still get official transportation.
@@sealand6567 Yes, do that! At the expo they usually call the help desk "Solutions" -- supposedly solutions for runners' problems. Unofficial hint: at the ferry, there are too many runners -- thousands -- so the volunteers and staff ONLY look for bib numbers -- they don't look closely at the small print in the corner of your race number to read what your transportation option is -- so if you don't have an assigned transportation marker on your race number, they will never notice. So -- try to do it officially at the expo -- otherwise just go to the ferry and get on. Ride on the right side of the ferry to get a great view of The Statue of Liberty. Then -- when the ferry is close to docking at Staten Island, go toward the front of the ferry so you can be one of the first to leave the ferry. That way you are first in line for the buses from the ferry to the start -- otherwise you will have 5000 runners ahead of you, waiting for a seat on the bus. It is cold and windy in Staten Island -- be sure to take "throwaway clothes" with you -- some cheap sweatshirts and plastic garbage bag you buy from a thrift shop will do.
Can I still register for nyc next week?
No
by far the worst major marathon i have ever run. will never do it again.
Why’s that?
Are people still peeing off that bridge near the start? 😳
I ran it and only saw people pee at the foot of the bridge after getting off in Brooklyn.
Yes
Eric, STOP telling people to break NYRR's rules about the race. They are trying to organize 53,000 runners and keep the race clear for runners -- STOP telling people to go around the rules. In a past video years ago, you even told people to jump over to the opposite side of 4th Avenue depending on whether it's sunny or not. STOP working AGAINST the NYRR - let them organize their race -- encourage runners to follow the rules so the race is good for all of us.