← All eventsTCS New York City Marathon
42.195km point-to-point road marathon across all five boroughs of New York. Staten Island start at the foot of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, finish in Central Park. Rolling and bridge-heavy (~340m climb, five bridges) — NOT a PB course. Abbott World Marathon Major, largest marathon in the world by finishers.
The biggest marathon in the world. Nearly 60,000 finishers on one closed course threading all five boroughs, from the foot of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Staten Island to the finish in Central Park.
42.195km and about 340m of climbing over five bridges, run on the first Sunday of November. It rolls the whole way, and the hardest ground, Fifth Avenue and Central Park, waits for the last 12km.
This is not a personal best course. The bridges and rolling finish add real time versus Berlin or Chicago. Come for the crowds and the boroughs, then race the effort, not the clock.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2025 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is TCS New York City Marathon for you?
- Runners with a genuine training base, not first-timers. The full distance plus rolling, bridge-heavy terrain demand a serious 16-plus week build.
- Strength runners who climb well. Five bridges and a rolling finish reward legs that can still push uphill at 35km, not just cruise on the flat.
- Disciplined pacers. New York punishes early enthusiasm on the Verrazzano and First Avenue, and rewards runners who race by effort.
- Anyone chasing the experience over the clock. Nearly 60,000 runners and crowd-lined streets make this a bucket-list day, not a time trial.
Training plan for TCS New York City Marathon
A training plan for TCS New York City Marathon isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- The Verrazzano-Narrows climbs steeply and fully wind-exposed in the first 3km. It feels easy on fresh legs, which is exactly the trap.
- Five bridges in all, the silent Queensboro climb at 25km being the mental low point where the real race starts.
- The hardest terrain comes last: the Fifth Avenue false-flat drag and Central Park's rolling finish over the final 12km.
- About 340m of cumulative climbing means nothing about the closing miles is flat, right as glycogen runs low.
- Marathon-pace long runs on rolling terrain: 28 to 35km with 15 to 20km at goal pace, fuelled exactly as on race day.
- Bridge and hill reps: 6 to 12 x 60s to 2min uphill at 5k-to-threshold effort, building the strength to climb late.
- Progressive long runs that finish the last 8 to 10km at marathon pace on already-tired legs.
- A midweek medium-long run of 14 to 18km, the quiet volume that builds the engine without the recovery cost.
- Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
- Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
- Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
- One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
