The last several years, the professional element has dropped off. We dropped the elite mile division seven years ago. We tried to build a people's race instead.

A Herculean effort is underway at Van Cortlandt Park. Our goal is to clear the vast majority of snow on the race course by tomorrow evening.

Colleen is the consummate cross-country runner. With decades of success behind her, she continues to amaze us with her success, and she should be the one to beat again.

I can't think of any other athlete any better to lead this event. He stands on the threshold of greatness.

In my wildest dreams I didn't think we'd see races like this,

I'm the first to say, 'You know what? New York kind of fell behind for a while; it's time for us to catch up,'

It will be the biggest marathon between the Olympics if we can get them together.

The beauty of our sport is it's a close-knit community. It's like a family, where sometimes you're better for the rivalries within it. But now we're at a point where we're only going to be better together.

Despite challenges in our schedule, we are strongly committed to bringing Japanese athletes to New York and have them appear in the most-watched marathon in the world.

There's a million dollars in our sport today which wasn't there yesterday.