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Byline: Deena Yellin, NorthJersey.com | USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Editor's note: The 52nd New York City Marathon will be held on Sunday, with scores of North Jersey residents [...]

Byline: Melanie Anzidei, NorthJersey.com Ever since Carmen Ludizaca was a child, she loved to run. Growing up in Ecuador, she was considered one of the fastest girls in her elementary [...]

Byline: Kevin R. Wexler What will go through your mind when you are about to die? During the early morning hours of Friday, March 27, I thought I learned the [...]

Byline: Deena Yellin 'Nothing will stop me from crossing that finish line.' Barbara Brown Running her fifth and final New York City Marathon Barbara Brown's life has been one long [...]

Byline: Jane Havsy, Morristown Daily Record Bernadette Carlson's marathon dreams began in Central Park. While watching the New York City Marathon, she learned about Zoe Koplowitz, who has multiple sclerosis [...]

Byline: Joshua Jongsma, North Jersey Record NEW YORK -- Days before his favorite marathon, longtime Montclair Kimberley Academy coach Tom Fleming joined a prestigious group of running icons. The Bloomfield [...]

Byline: Keldy Ortiz, Staff Writer, @keldyortiz Tom Fleming, the former Montclair Kimberley Academy track and field coach and two-time New York City Marathon winner who died earlier this year, will [...]

Byline: JAY LEVIN, STAFF WRITER Robert Madonna, a graphic artist who took up running in his 40s and completed 20 New York City Marathons, died Wednesday after being stricken at [...]

Byline: NEIL AMDUR, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD They are as different as night and day. Camryn Wennersten, 10, is quiet and competitive, stubbornly unyielding. Her younger sister Peyton, 7, is [...]

Byline: JEFF ROBERTS, STAFF WRITER NEW YORK -- The parade of blue ponchos shuffled down Central Park West, flooding the closed street in an endless wave. The exhausted runners limped [...]

Byline: RICHARD COWEN, STAFF WRITER The New York City Marathon came back bigger and safer than ever Sunday as a record 50,740 runners and wheelchair athletes competed in the grueling [...]

Byline: JEFF ROBERTS, STAFF WRITER The needle of pain stabbed Jessica Herrera each time she took a step. But still she ran. Carolyn Schuster trained in three countries and eight [...]

Byline: TOM GULITTI, STAFF WRITER Instead of lining up this morning on the Staten Island end of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for the start of the New York City Marathon, Stewart [...]

Byline: Alfred P. Doblin I'M NOT a disinterested party. I am a runner. I have completed 10 marathons, including the one in New York City six years ago. There is [...]

Byline: TOM GULITTI, STAFF WRITER NEW YORK - 'The marathon will go on.' Those were the words organizers of the New York City Marathon were waiting to hear from Mayor [...]

Byline: JAY LEVIN, STAFF WRITER Steve Mendelsohn, a fixture on the New York City Marathon course even though he never laced up running shoes, died on Wednesday at his home [...]

Byline: MELISSA HAYES, STAFF WRITER Nancy and Lisa Haystrand won't have their father by their side today when they run the ING New York City Marathon in his memory, but [...]

Byline: TOM GULITTI In 1992, Fred Lebow and Grete Waitz crossed the New York City Marathon finish line together, with interlocked hands raised high. On Friday evening, they were together [...]

Byline: MATTHEW HUISMAN, THE STAR-LEDGER When Bernie Papa laces up his shoes on Sunday to compete in the New York City Marathon, he won't be thinking about setting an age-group [...]

NEW YORK -- Julia Emanuel's marathon began in the early hours of New Year's Day, when she found out her father had suffered a massive stroke while celebrating with friends. [...]

NEW YORK -- The world came to the Jacob Javits Center on Saturday -- or at least, it seemed that way -- as runners from all over the globe stopped [...]

Brazilian dies A Brazilian runner collapsed and died after finishing the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Police say 58-year-old Sao Paulo resident Carlos Jose Gomes had just passed the [...]

Gian Paul Gonzalez wanted to make an impact in people's lives. So the next time you see Gonzalez, a 2006 Division III basketball All-American at Montclair State from North Haledon, [...]

NEW YORK When the elite athletes passed her, Zoe Koplowitz kept walking. When the hard-core runners went by, she kept walking. And finally, when every other one of the thousands [...]

NEW YORK When he heard the crowd cheer him wildly at the finish line on Sunday, Kevin Baltzer forgot the stopwatch and remembered again why he had put himself through [...]

NEW YORK Kevin Johnson will be thinking of his half-brother Christopher Reeve as he winds his way along the five boroughs of the New York City Marathon. Johnson, who considers [...]

NEW YORK A Brazilian man finished strong to stun the favored Africans, ending their decade-long hold on the New York City Marathon. A Latvian woman ran away from the field [...]

Gary Swangin should be easy to spot in today's New York City Marathon. He'll be the runner with the earphones and microphone strapped to his head. And most likely, the [...]

It was spring 2005 when Jimmy Vaughan first had the idea, slowly letting the notion of pounding his legs over 26.2 miles of New York City roadways take root. Eventually, [...]

Training and determination may be key to logging 26 miles of the New York City Marathon, but what a runner eats - and when - is just as critical. The [...]

NEW YORK - When an earthquake ripped through Pakistan, Sarmad Tariq tried to persuade his wife to get out of their apartment building and leave him behind. He didn't want [...]