Ted Metellus

In 1981, your father co-founded it.

And now I do have a little bit of an idea where it came from, because I was speaking to Ted Metellus, who's obviously the chief event production officer for the New York Road Runners and the TCS New York City Marathon race director, head of our interview today.

I was asking him, you know, you've got anything you'd like to put here? Is there anything that you'd sort of say? And he said to me that he found out from you that New York, especially sort of celebrating the 50 years of the five boroughs, was perhaps a little bit of an inspiration.

Correct.

But we have some very, very exciting company with us today.

Ted Metellus, the race director of the TCS New York City Marathon, joining me as co-host today because this is the episode of Set the Pace that... millions, millions around the world look forward to every single year, everything you need to know about running the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon.

Ted, welcome back to Set the Pace.

How are you?

So if you've got a friend you know is running for a charity, please make sure you go ask them for their profile, find it and donate to whatever charity they're running for to help us hit that huge goal.

We're going to be profiling a few of those charities, their work, their runners and how their participation in the marathon helps to support their missions in the coming weeks.

here on set the pace so make sure you come back for some of those stories we're really excited to tell them because it's a really big part of this year's marathon thanks again to ted metellus my outstanding co-host today if you like this episode please go ahead leave a rating subscribe share it leave a comment so others can find it as well we hope this gets you feeling ready and fired up for the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon.

We will see you at the starting line, if not sooner.