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For the 36th time, Peter Berkowsky will set up a morning minyan at the start of the 26.2-mile race.

It started as four laps in a sketchy park, and now the race is a global phenomenon, back after a year lost to the pandemic.

Courtesy B.A.A. Running often gives opportunity to eccentric talents. America’s great marathons have been shaped by some unlikely movers and shakers—an image-conscious Romanian-born garment industry dealer; a quietly intellectual African-American grandson of slaves; a short-fused Scot from working-class Glasgow; a female CIA operative who never ran a step. Fred Lebow, Ted Corbitt, Jock Semple, and Gloria Ratti seem like unlikely founders, yet each was key in making the New York City and Bo...

Share Print "When I was running and my legs started to hurt, I reminded myself that my brother has lost a leg to cancer already,” says Sandy Freiberg, pictured. On September 13, Sandy Freiberg ran a marathon to honor his brother, Evan Freiberg, who is in his fifth year of cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Only Sandy didn’t run the race among a pack of people and with great fanfare at the finish line. He ran 26.2 miles entirely on his own. Sandy had signed u...