The Start

• You must use the clear official start village bag to bring any belongings into Fort Wadsworth. Please review our prohibited items list.
• Only registered entrants and guides are allowed in Fort Wadsworth and the start area.
• Have your number visible to enter.  The color of your race number indicates your start village.
• Please note that you may not check a bag at the start for transport to the finish.
• The only bag allowed into Fort Wadsworth is the start village bag you received at the expo. All bags are subject to inspection.
• There are 1,700 toilets in the start villages and corrals.
• Medical staff is available in each village. If you feel ill, alert the medical staff. If you are unable to run, a bus will transport you to the finish area after the final wave has cleared the start line.
• Runner amenities are available while supplies last, on behalf our sponsors, including Gatorade® Endurance Formula, Science in Sport Protein Bars, Dunkin’® coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and bagels.
• We advise that you wear extra layers to keep warm. You may discard these items for donation in All of Us Clothing bins before moving to the corrals.
• As in previous in years, NYRR will transport personal nursing pumps from the start to finish area for runners. New this year, there will be lactation spaces in the staging area that provide pumping accommodations and amenities. Breast pumps will be available at the start and finish lines as well as at lactation tents on course, giving participants easy options for pumping. Medala breast pumps and sets of individually-wrapped, sanitized accessories will be provided by Babyation (at one tent), a technology company that creates products that meet the holistic needs of parents. Learn more here about how NYRR is working with &Mother to elevate the lactation experience at the TCS New York City Marathon with the aim to remove barriers to full participation.

• Runners who are assigned to different corrals and waves but wish to start together may do so by going to the corral and wave corresponding to the higher corral letter and number.
• Please follow the multilingual announcements for each wave instructing runners to line up in the corrals.
• NYRR pacers will be in the corrals; view our Pace Team section below for more details.

Start times are subject to change.

If you choose to run with a pace group, you can look for the NYRR Pace Team members in the start corrals wearing their blue-and-white-striped NYRR Pace Team singlets. You can also come to the Running Lab at the TCS New York City Marathon Expo to meet your pacer. Each pacer will carry signs that correspond with their respective finish times and paces. There is no fee to run with the pace team or sign-up process.

Find which start corrals our Pace Team members will be in on race day using the table below.

Scroll to the left on mobile to see full chart.