Bachelor Nation’s Joe Amabile has his sights set on the New York City Marathon after his upcoming surgery to remove a brain tumor.
In an Instagram Story shared on Tuesday, July 28, Amabile, 40, posted a screenshot confirming his registration for the 2026 New York City Marathon, which will take place on Nov. 1. The reality star previously completed the race in both 2024 and 2025.
“We’ll see,” he wrote, adding a crossed-fingers emoji.
On July 13, Amabile revealed that doctors had discovered what appears to be an early-stage brain tumor after he underwent a Prenuvo scan, a proactive full-body MRI.
“So a little medical update. I didn’t share my Prenuvo results because they ended up finding a lesion in my brain,” Amabile said in a video shared to his Instagram. “So then I had to go get a brain MRI, and there was a blueberry-sized lesion in my brain that looks to be a glioma, which is a tumor.”
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He went on to explain that he would undergo a craniotomy to remove the lesion and determine whether it is cancerous.
“So I now need to get brain surgery to get it removed and get it tested, and then we’re gonna go from there,” Amabile continued. “So it’s been a wild couple weeks. Definitely wasn’t expecting this.”
“I think it’s one of those things where you’re like, ‘Oh, something like this never happened to me,’ and here I am,” he added. “They say it’s really early stages. I hope they are able to get it all, and I’m fine. But I will keep you updated.”
Amabile is married to fellow Bachelor alum Serena Pitt, whom he met while filming Season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise in 2021. The couple tied the knot in an intimate courthouse ceremony in New York City in October 2022 before celebrating with a larger wedding in Charleston, South Carolina, the following year.
This story was originally published by Parade on Jul 28, 2026, where it first appeared in the News section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.