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marathon is not crowded in the world. It is not the fastest or the oldest, is not even economically the most greedy. However, New York remains the quintessential symbolic marathon, colorful, appealing and coveted in the world. 127 athletes participated in 1970 and ended 55. Forty years later, the organization has received over 100,000 applications and have hardly been involved 42,000. An experience not to be missed. Is it because in the Big Apple dreams cook unique. Halloween and surf, shopping. Brooklyn, Harlem, Bronx, Times Square ... The combination of tourism and sport seems a perfect plan. Everything is possible in New York. And if the visit is made .... Running.

Verrazano Bridge Km 0

anthem sounds American and New York, New York by Frank Sinatra. A shot reminds us of where we are to 50,000 athletes (there are at least 8,000 poachers, who are without dorsal) blocked with emotion. Many watery drawing a smile on his lips, for them, the best thing to happen in years will be stepping on the Verrazano Bridge that connects Brooklyn to Staten lsland this November morning. Passage through the crowd, its solid structure seems to shake every stride. The concrete will be sweatshirts and windbreakers the athletes have used for heating and in an act of solidarity give as a donation to charity for the needy. It's tradition. It's a relief.

The animation is deafening, with crowds and bands playing the iconic songs of Chariots of Fire and the original version Roky film. The hair stands on end, and not wet with dew governing the entrance to the port of New York.

is in these first steps when viewing land races. I've already completed it five times, and not difficult for me to motorists: the tide will have to travel multicolor Brooklyn, Queens ... The endless Queensboro Bridge, First Avenue that crosses all Manhattan up to the dreaded Bronx. Blank looks and surprised by what's going on either side of the road will travel more bearable. More bands, played by people of different ethnicities. One black, one white, a Jew, a whore, a transsexual, one murderer and a fascist rule. With either we can bump.

kilometers 5 FOURTH AVENUE

No get out of my surprise came into the 4 th AVENUE, The bridge that connects Brooklyn to Queens. I remember someone on the streets of Brooklyn celebrated personalities emerged: the myth of basketball and Michael Jordan, singer and actress Babra Streisand or the very mobster Al Capone. It is the ethnic neighborhood in New York. In fact, going through one of its streets I see people in robes. I wonder if they will be praying prayers to reach the finish line in Central Park.

kilometer 10 QUEENS PURE

5 kilometers of believers, as if they were not the thing, some kids of color rappers looking like a savvy move to fascinate while those Prowler in slippers and underwear. The larger and carries a big big cassette dimensions. The volume is soaring, while the decibels coming out are about to ruin your eardrums Pure Queens.

Queensboro Bridge KM 22

After the Ecuador of race and not realizing I come on the Queensboro Bridge. It's so amazing how endless. Its length, more than a mile up, it does unbearable. For more of a nuisance, the metal surface subjected to the feet of an ordeal to this point in the trot. A relief: to exit from the famous miracle of engineering. Rotates according to First Avenue, the body senses a rush to the crush of public sidewalks that continues to animate.

forces begin to decrease, but the view is still intact, just as enjoyable. Slows down and catch a refreshment in a glass of sports drink. At the roadside a child plugs, hose in hand, everyone who passes by. I could swear that every year is the same.

kilometer 32 RESPECT IN THE BRONX

vertical cross First Avenue around Manhattan, to the Bronx. That respect. Only the day of the marathon you can enter without fear. I will be running for a mile on such a dangerous district, with more danger than the Wall. Days ago I said the suspicion is part of the urban legends, but, just in case, they insist that I conform to the postal district. Despite the fatigue, in the Bronx trying to run a little more tápido. Some I am encouraged with a "Go, go, let's go." Drivers respect us, have recognized today that the shoes are imposed on the wheels. No cars more comfortable life. Consider also in New York.

kilometer 33 ALBUM "THE WALL"

The miles are doubled, the legs are swollen. I feel as if you moved two steel beams. The fatigue is reflected in the faces of the athletes. Mixed feelings: euphoria states happen to other depression and anxiety. My body calls for a truce that will not arrive until the bucolic Central Park. Jogging leads to suicide collective sports. I have hunger, thirst, ve4es laugh. Others sigh. Even I have wanted to mourn. Those who have traveled this test know why these miles are called the wall. New Yorkers are encouraged. Thanks again.

kilometer 34 FIFTH AVENUE

On leaving the Bronx overlooking Fifth Avenue, the myth of six lanes. Before coming to stores nobles, those buildings where the tourists go shopping and leave part of their salary, we have passed the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). After more than two hours running and suffering, I think I'm as sharp as to retrieve the desire to enter the museum tomorrow to see the last exposure. I'm close. Only seven kilometers remaining rompepiernas me to overcome the finish line in Central Park.

CENTRAL PARK 42.195 KILOMETER

The park is full of beauty in autumn. Children skating, birds, squirrels scurry scary tree to tree trying to wriggle out of the bad boys. Crowd walking, running and bike rides around the lake where one day the film starred Dustin Hoffman Manhattan Man Are meters of ecstasy, glory. Hands to heaven, stare, smile on your face. Gestures of happiness that counter full of different emotions sobs. A medal around his neck, a congratulations, a "congratulations" a "Good race" (good race) announced that the marathon has ended happily.

KILOMETER 43 ... NEW YORK MI

But that's not the New York experience: with a monumental laces, the medal over her shoulders and the satisfaction of having completed execution, we have another marathon, enjoy the capital the world. Some doubt between returning to MOMA without running, flying by helicopter the outskirts of the Statue of Liberty or take the Metro to the site where one day they got the Twin Towers. How sad. From there, five minutes, is the Stock Exchange building on Wall Stretto, where money moves the world. To replace ground forces amburguesa eat a lady in Bonnije's Grill (2378 Fifth) or a sandwich Woody Allen in one of the Carnegie Deli. For others, those who can not or are his body, the choice is simple: to attend any of the classical theater on Broadway. The most daring challenge in contention and walk up the Empire State skating in Rockefeller Center and attend a basketball game of the New York Knicks. To retrieve the gels change of glucose and mineral salts by a bucket of popcorn and a soda from a size XXL planazo.

In New York, deceitful and enveloping everything is big. Even the beating. But the dream of many is also my dream.

Professional athletes, financial, young royals and celebrities, among those registered

New York again to wear their best clothes on 7 November to host a new edition, the forty-first, the world's most famous marathon. To the capital of skyscrapers moved a large representation of English athletes, of which 931 managed to finish the race, with mixed fortunes. Among the 45,000 participants, only a few professionals, went for the brand, while the vast majority enjoyed a challenge to have served as an excuse to spend a weekend in the Big Apple. Among the former, Fabián Roncero (51 º) and veteran Martin Fiz (81 º), which occupied a privileged position among the first hundred but ahead of them stood three other English athletes: Miguel Beltran (25 º), Francisco Román (31 º) and Francisco Javier Rodríguez (49 º). The first English woman was María Dolores Jiménez, ranked 75.

The best of the English, Miguel Méndez Beltrán is an amateur racer born in San Juan del Puerto (Huelva). At 32 years old participated for the second time in the legendary American test, and almost without realizing it, became the first English and third European to cross the finish line of the New York test. Beltran, who came only with the intention of lowering his personal best, he managed with a time of 2.26:29.

But the New York Marathon is also a must for executives and celebrities. This time, the lawyer and triathlete Javier García Enterría, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance Mercantile, made a mark of 2:57. Two minutes later, and also lowering the barrier of three hours, ended July Babecki, CEO of L Capital. Juan Antonio Samaranch junior, and financial Olympian, did not four hours.

A brand agreeing to take Carmen Martínez Bordiú son, Alfonso de Borbon, who scored a creditable 3:30 mark. He also visited the New York quoted another athlete with real names, Bruno Gomez-Acebo, nephew of the King of Spain, who finished with a record of 3:44, a time even better than the King's son, Inaki Urdangarin, who used ten minutes.

TV presenter Anne Igartiburu successfully completed the 42 kilometers of the track in just over five hours longer than the other English participant connected to the world of fashion, Mary Fitz-James, public relations Vogue.

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aside, other attractions were the presence of the great champion athlete Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, who made his debut in the race and had to leave injured. At the conclusion of the event, "Gebre" announced his retirement, but fortunately continue to London 2012. Gebrselassie was also next to Edison Peña, one of the Chilean miners entombed for 69 days.

's article is Martin Fiz Marathon and the other is the newspaper Norte de Castilla