Ted Metellus is race director of the TCS New York City Marathon. In many ways, he’s a miracle maker. How else do you get 50,000+ runners from midtown Manhattan to Staten Island, and then back again (on foot) to finish in Central Park? Especially when they come from so many different countries and speak different languages?
Metellus seems almost born to the position he holds. Raised in New York City with Haitian-heritage parents, he’s big, bold, always smiling, and details-obsessed. He has also run 44 half marathons and two NYC Marathons, so he knows the needs of midpack runners as well as the elites.
In this podcast he discusses:
# how he went to the recent Chicago Marathon but didn’t see the race’s epic new women’s world record. Why? He had to fly back to NYC for the Staten Island Half.
# a few tricks that the NYC Marathon has learned from other big races
# what the NY Road Runners are doing to enhance diversity in the organization and the sport
# what new World Marathon Majors race(s) we might be seeing soon
# why everyone seems to be running these days (and trying to get entries into the most popular marathons)
# why he enjoys running road races himself
# and much more
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