Runners flocked to the streets of New York last week for the TCS NYC Marathon, leaving a trail of paper cups and road closures in their wake. The weather in New York should have prevented everyone from leaving there apartments, to say nothing of running a marathon, but lo and behold, more than 50,000 people participated in and conquered this year’s event.
Anyone running that kind of ungodly distance must be running from something, right? Where else would you get the motivation? We sent SI Extra Mustard investigative reporters and photojournalists into the field to discover exactly what these runners were trying to escape. Continue to SI.com to see the exclusive pictures!
