The 2012 New York City Marathon may have been canceled following the controversy surrounding its timing in relationship to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, but you wouldn't necessarily have known it by looking at the finish line in Central Park on Saturday.
Sure, the bleachers along the sides of the park that normally hold people cheering the racers on were empty, and workers were dismantling the lines of signposts where advertisements usually hang. But there were runners, too -- and lots of them -- posing for victory photos at the finish line after having gone ahead and run 26.2 miles anyway.
"We winged it," said Michelle Langevin, who is from Atlanta and completed her unofficial marathon in 5 hours and 23 minutes. With three other running partners and the aid of GPS watches, Langevin had looped through the park, gone over the Queensboro Bridge, come back up 1st Avenue to 96th Street and then returned to the park for the final stretch.
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