Times And Anecdotes From DAILY Readers At The N.Y. Marathon
THE DAILY asked readers who ran Sunday’s ING N.Y. Marathon to send us their times
and their stories. Here’s what you told us:
YOUR STORIES: USOC Associate Dir of NGB Business Development GUILLERMO
ROJAS finished his second N.Y. Marathon with a time of 3:00:07. LANCE ARMSTRONG
“passed me with 5k to go, the guy is a machine,” he wrote....NASCAR Partnership
Marketing Senior Account Manager CHRIS MARCIANI finished in 3:24 and raised
$3,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training....IMG Consulting
Account Exec KATE JOHNSON, an ’04 Olympic Rowing Silver Medalist, completed
her first marathon ever in 3:48:29 and raised $1,856 for JOHANN OLAV KOSS’
Right To Play. Johnson was “reassured when I read Lance Armstrong’s comments on
the race because despite the hundreds of thousands of hours of training I’ve done
in my life, this was the hardest single physical challenge ever.” She hopes to
qualify for the Boston Marathon....MARC BLUMENCRANZ, a Principal in the
Corporate Services Group at BWD Group completed his second N.Y. Marathon with
a time of 3:51. Blumencranz ran to support the Achilles Track Club, a charity
which supports disabled individuals....NASCAR Industry Marketing Senior Account
Manager JIM TUCKER finished in 3:58 and raised over $12,000 for the Leukemia
& Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training....Jets VP/PR RON COLANGELO used
the team’s bye weekend to run the N.Y. Marathon, finishing in 4:24:40.
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