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By Max Jaeger
Brooklyn Daily
They’ve gotta be sore.
More than 971,200 runners from 181 countries hoofed it 26.2 miles through the five boroughs for the New York City Marathon on Nov. 2. The annual jaunt spent more time in Brooklyn than any other borough. Marathoners ran 12 miles from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Bay Ridge to the Pulaski Bridge in Greenpoint. The race took contestants up Fourth Avenue from Bay Ridge to Downtown, over on Flatbush and Lafayette Avenues in Fort Greene, and up Bedford Manhattan avenues from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Greenpoint.
Wilson Kipsang of Kenya finished in just 2:10:59, according to race organizers. Birhanu Dare Kemal, who was born in Ethiopia but lives in Manhattan, was the first New Yorker to cross the finish line — just 8 minutes after Kipsang. The average runner finished in 4:24:57, marathon data show.
Participants faced a particularly tough race through Brooklyn on Sunday, when a headwind bore down on athletes at up to 40 miles per hour. And there was the cold. Sunday’s temperature, which never topped 48 degrees, approached the marathon’s all-time lowest max temperature of 41 degrees in 1995.