{"id":320939,"date":"2026-08-14T02:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320939\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T02:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:07:14","slug":"new-york-road-runners-ceo-on-91-program-rule-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320939\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Road Runners CEO on 9+1 Program rule change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big changes are coming to the New York City Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>For years, runners have been using the 9+1 Program, which allows runners to participate in nine qualifying races and volunteer at one race in order to earn a guaranteed spot in the marathon.<\/p>\n<p>However, starting with the 2028 marathon, the New York Road Runners will hold a lottery drawing for its members to participate in the 9+1 Program instead.<\/p>\n<p>New York Road Runners CEO Rob Simmelkjaer joined Shannan Ferry on &#8220;News All Day&#8221; to discuss the rule change and what it means for participants and the future of the New York City Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big changes are coming to the New York City Marathon. For years, runners have been using the 9+1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2367,7473,9,24,55,54,2368,56,2370,2369,200],"class_list":["post-320939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-live-at-noon","tag-ctv","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news-all-day","tag-ny","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-shannan-ferry","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320939","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=320939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}