{"id":21334,"date":"2025-10-29T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21334\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:54:07","slug":"2025-tcs-nyc-marathon-iconic-blue-line-painted-in-central-park-ahead-of-race-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21334\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 TCS NYC Marathon: Iconic blue line painted in Central Park ahead of race day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CENTRAL PARK, New York (WABC) &#8212; Final preparations are in full swing ahead of Sunday&#8217;s TCS New York City Marathon and one of the most iconic features of the race was put in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The New York Road Runners organization held its annual ceremonial painting of the blue line in Central Park on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That line marks the end of the 26.2-mile course in Central Park that runs through the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This year more than 50,000 runners from roughly 160 countries will check a dream off their bucket list. Athletes of all ages will make their way along the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The official start to race weekend happens Friday with opening ceremonies featuring the Parade of Nations, which is a showcase of runners from across the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Seating will be available for spectators at the finish line, which is located at 67th Street on West Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">We&#8217;ll have live coverage on Eyewitness News and stream that ceremony live on ABC7NY.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTRAL PARK, New York (WABC) &#8212; Final preparations are in full swing ahead of Sunday&#8217;s TCS New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14240,14237,14239,4709,2792,9,24,2790,56,63,65,64,14238,168],"class_list":["post-21334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-14240","tag-2024-tcs-new-york-city-marathon","tag-blue-line","tag-central-park","tag-marathon","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-marathon","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-runners","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}