Congratulations to Marilson Gomes dos Santos for winning the New York City Marathon again this year. I ran NYC in 2006, the first year that dos Santos won NYC and had my closest brush with an elite runner that year. I was staying at one of the 2 host hotels. After walking what seemed like forever to get to my UPS baggage gear truck in Central Park after the race, I walked back to the hotel to get cleaned up. A group of us crowded into the elevator to get upstairs; on our way up I learned that dos Santos and his manager were on the elevator with us and that dos Santos had won the marathon. He actually got off on the same floor as me and was staying a few doors down. That was my second elite runner siting that weekend. On a carriage ride in Central Park, my niece, a friend of hers, and I saw 2004 Olympic marathon gold medal winner Stefano Baldini doing pick ups the Saturday morning before the marathon.
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