James Milner, Jennifer Connelly, former All Blacks and a Spanish marathon champion are among those preparing for Sunday 1 November. Across 73 individual stories, this international selection celebrates the training, charitable causes and personal ambitions behind the familiar names.
The TCS New York City Marathon returns on Sunday 1 November 2026: 26.2 miles, five boroughs and thousands of personal journeys. Fifty years after the race first embraced the whole city, here is what makes this weekend worth watching.