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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Up from the streets with the pre-marathon conversations with the peeps.
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  Speaker 3: What did you come up with, Natalie?
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  Speaker 1: What I came up with is it's not me that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be running the marathon. So don't get so excited, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not that excited.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited. We're going to be live that morning.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: You'll meet Tim McClune. Natalie's going to be running the show.
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  Speaker 1: None of us are running the marathon, though.
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  Speaker 3: We have people from here that are running the marathon.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's several people. Oh, yeah. None of them are very good,
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  Speaker 3: but they're running.
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  Speaker 4: But they'll post a time.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see how long it takes. They'll finish. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: But we're just a few days away from the best
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  Speaker 1: day in New York City. And I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: Halloween because Marathon Day, the TCS New York City Marathon
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  Speaker 1: falls the day after Halloween on Sunday, November 1st. This
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  Speaker 1: year marks 50 years since the 26.2 mile course expanded
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  Speaker 1: to all five boroughs. And I caught up with George Hirsch,
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  Speaker 1: who is one of the five men who worked to
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  Speaker 1: bring the five borough journey to life in a very
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  Speaker 1: unlikely time. Because at that time, the city was on
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  Speaker 1: the brink of financial ruin.
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  Speaker 4: And when George ran.
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  Speaker 1: It, only about 2000 people ran it.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like each year the marathon gets bigger and bigger.
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  Speaker 1: With 60,000 people expected to finish this year, guys.
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  Speaker 4: So could George have ever imagined this?
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  Speaker 5: This is beyond my wildest imagination. I'd like to say
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  Speaker 5: I've got a vision, but I never saw it at
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  Speaker 5: this level.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: How does it feel when you watch these thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people every year? pounding the streets that you helped start this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I pounded them. I ran that first marathon
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  Speaker 5: back then in 1976. It just gives me a wonderful sense.
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  Speaker 5: I feel very privileged to have been part of all
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  Speaker 5: of this.
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  Speaker 1: Now, 50 years, and I talked to David, who has
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  Speaker 1: pretty much been a part of it all, too, because
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  Speaker 1: I walked up on David standing right next to a
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  Speaker 1: picture that's up along the metal barricades that line the
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  Speaker 1: course in Central Park.
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  Speaker 4: That picture, it's of him, okay?
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  Speaker 1: People stopping to take pictures with him and of him
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  Speaker 1: and to talk to him.
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  Speaker 4: And why?
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  Speaker 6: This is my 48th New York City Marathon show.
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  Speaker 1: What keeps you coming back?
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  Speaker 6: I like to eat a lot. And it's just something
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  Speaker 6: I do in most mornings. And it's just a very
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  Speaker 6: good thing for me up here. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: like it. I like the way I look at 74.
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  Speaker 6: My face has wrinkles, but my body doesn't. And it's
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  Speaker 6: a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, the second he said, I like to eat, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I better start running.
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  Speaker 4: Because I like to eat too, David.
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  Speaker 1: But for someone who is so seasoned, 48 New York
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  Speaker 1: City marathons, 48 of them.
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  Speaker 4: I had to ask him. for tips for first-time runners.
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  Speaker 6: I would say pick up your number on Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 6: a lot less crowded. And if you're running for a
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  Speaker 6: particular time, push yourself a little bit before the start
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  Speaker 6: so that you don't get jammed up too much at
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  Speaker 6: the beginning of the race so that you can just
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  Speaker 6: start and go straight without going around people. But that's
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  Speaker 6: how I would do it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, at the height, he said he ran three hours.
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  Speaker 3: And 25 minutes. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: But with George, who ran the original race, he has
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a different philosophy. You can see
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  Speaker 1: the appreciation for the course and the city in how
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  Speaker 1: he advises first-time runners to take it all in.
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  Speaker 5: If you haven't ran it before, there's so much... energy
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  Speaker 5: and adrenaline at the start. Go out slowly, more slowly
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  Speaker 5: than you thought. In fact, I would say stay rather
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  Speaker 5: sleepy for the first six miles. Don't even wake up
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. And then when you get to First Avenue,
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  Speaker 5: where it's just a block of noise on both sides
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  Speaker 5: of you, slow down because those people can make you
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  Speaker 5: start to run fast. And, you know, you got 10
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  Speaker 5: miles to go and that's a lot of distance. So,
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  Speaker 5: in other words, the answer is run within yourself. This
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  Speaker 5: is a 26-mile foot race.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody who listening may not be running the marathon, but
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  Speaker 1: if you know people who are, share this with them
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of first-time runners, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: strive for this, like to do the 26.2 miles across
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  Speaker 1: New York City. You know, I wake up on Monday
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  Speaker 1: after the marathon and I think.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to do it next year. Do you really?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then a week later I'm like, yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 4: for me.
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  Speaker 3: Did you try, do you go out and run a
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  Speaker 3: little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Then I start running like five, six miles.
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  Speaker 4: And then I'm like, you know what? That's enough for me. So,
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  Speaker 4: but my brother-in-law's running. I'm a, I'm on eight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always at mile eight. Ken Rosato's at mile 20.
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  Speaker 1: You and Tim and Natalie in central park. And it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be great. We're going to have a great
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  Speaker 1: fun time watching people run while we stand there.
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  Speaker 3: And we're coming up.
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  Speaker 2: We have Rob Similcare who runs the, uh, TCH New
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  Speaker 2: York City Marathon, TCS New York City Marathon, excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: And he is going to talk about preparations. Yeah, he's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Natalie.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'll talk tomorrow about more marathon stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 6: Up next, the two superstars were at it again, Barack
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  Speaker 6: Obama and Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: But first, it's News at 8.