Of course, Connor Strynkowski could have pinned his bib to his shorts, but where’s the fun in that?
The 30-year-old traversed the route, which weaves through all five of New York City’s boroughs, in just less than two hours and 39 minutes — a nearly six-minute pace per mile.
Strynkowski’s decision to go shirtless, it appears, was not made in the spur-of-the-moment: among the running community, the Palmyra, Pa., native has become a pseudo-celebrity, The precise conditions most conducive to running 26.2 miles with four barbs pinned to the chest remain unclear, but the majority of runners who competed in Sunday’s marathon were pleased with the race-day temperatures. Donald Trump's new chief of staff has connection to NFL broadcasting icon
It was a crisp 44 degrees when Strynkowski set out across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge around 9 a.m. By the time he crossed the finish line in Central Park some two and a half hours later, the temperature had risen to a balmy 50 degrees. — 2:38:16 — was the 326th-fastest among 55,524 marathon finishers. In his age group, 30-34, that time was good for 94th place.“That’s the definition of a real runner right there,” a third said.
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