This Sunday, November 5, among the more than 50,000 competitors, two Vauverdoises, Muriel Perez and Isabelle Ganne, licensed to the Courir à Vauvert club, took the start from the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge. Objective: complete the 42 kilometers and 195 meters of a route taking them through the 5 districts of New York: Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Manhattan where the final took place in Central Park.
“A difficult journey”
Having carefully prepared for this marathon for many months with their friends from the club, the Gardoises finished their course very well: one in 4h54 and the other in 4h57. Both were offered the superb medal of “Finisher” that all the runners, coming from around 140 different countries, proudly wore around their necks the day after their journey. “A difficult course but with many spectators throughout the race to encourage us,” they summarized.
Arriving several days before the marathon, they had time to discover many places in this beautiful and large megalopolis and to climb the largest skyscrapers of a city that never sleeps. They were also able to see the Statue of Liberty offered to the Americans and sculpted by the Frenchman Auguste Bartholdi.
The day before the race, a 5 km took place where all non-American participants were able to march behind their flag from the United Nations headquarters to Central Park. A taste of what they would experience the next day.
It is with images in their heads that our two marathon runners, who had already run a marathon in Paris, Nice, Barcelona and Rio, will return in a few days to Vauvert to recount their exploit and, of course, show their beautiful medal.
Correspondent Midi Libre: 06 20 96 43 47
2023-11-08 04:05:00
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