A friend of mine did the ING NYC Marathon last year, is it too late for me to enter this years?

Actually you can still enter the race. An organization named Team Continuum still has tickets. I’m here on behalf of Team Continuum to spread the word.

Team Continuum helps raise money to provide immediate and vital, non-medical, assistance to cancer patients and their families where the diagnosis results in disruption, hardship and uncertainty in their everyday lives.

Check out the website for more details:

http://www.teamcontinuum.net/competitor_register.asp

First, you don’t simply “enter” the NYC marathon. You have to apply for entrance.

Second, regular applications are closed. But you can get guaranteed entrance by running with/via one of a list of approved charities: http://www.ingnycmarathon.org/charities_index.htm

Yeah – unless with a group you need to get in through the lottery or you have to qualify (running a qualifying marathon in under the time set on the basis of your sex and age).

It is probably too late to start training if that is something that affects you.