2011 New York City Marathon - The race day

November 6, 2011

I wait for it for 6months.

This is today, I'm so excited about this.

I woke up around 5am, had a breakfast in McDonald's, then went to the Subway station.

More and more runners got on the subway, it's seem running for runners in this morning.

We have to take the ferry to Staten Island, it's located another side of the Hadson river.

It cost us around 1hour on the ferry, and arrived in St. George.

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• Getting on the ferry.
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• And you can see the Liberty lady say: Go! Runners!!!! Today is your day!!!
•  Getting off the ferry, and many people were waiting for the toilets.  haha......(Me too)
• And we have to transfer shuttle bus to somewhere.....somewhere I don't know.
•  Here we are.
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• It's really big space and many runners there.
• very easy to get lost.

If you need closthes, hats, scarfs, gloves, coats..... just come here.

to find something you need, fit on you.... It's all free.

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• My starting time was at 10:40am, we had 1 more hour.
• And runners on Wave 1 started at 9:40am, so you can hear
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• I saw a team all runners were in bra, even males. hahaha.....   very funny.
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•  Wave 1 and 2 left at 9:40 and 10:30, but there still many people.  I can't believe it!!!

When they shot the gun for starting, they also played the song '' New York New York''

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•  At start, we have to go up the bridge - Verrazano-Narrows Bridge - to Brooklyn.
• And through Gueens, Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan and Central Park.

• There had many people cheer up for runners along the route. 
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•  When runners were near to finish line, there had more and more people around the route.
• That's really touching and helpful.
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I didn't have good course, but I did it.
When I arrived the finish line, I just crying out.  

To me, the full marathon is really fxxking tired.   

其實在跑步前一天我才知道自己是跑全馬，一直以來我都以為是跑半馬…
沒想到，有前輩說，全馬和半馬是完全不同的日子……真冏…
在討論這件事時，是在hotsel裡的大廳…大家都聽到了。
一個來自台灣的女生居然不知道自己是跑全馬…搞得大家也快笑翻…

讓我不放棄，一定要跑完的幾個理由：
1  參加的台灣人，加我共四位，我是唯一一位女生，一定要跑完
2  我等了這麼久，如果放棄，那我的等待就沒意義，一定要跑完
3  又不是沒跑過全馬，就算前一天才知道又怎樣？我一定要跑完
4  身旁有很多年紀大的老先生老太太都沒有放棄，我一定要跑完
5  旁邊加油團不斷的加油打氣，就是要我們完成它，一定要跑完
6  報名費這麼貴，不跑完拿到一個獎牌就沒意思了，一定要跑完
7  如果我跑完就拿到人生第二馬，又一個成就到手，一定要跑完

3days 2nights is not enough to visit New York City.

So I will go there again!!!