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NEW YORK -- Forty years ago, the worlds top two marathon runners were each handed an envelope with a check in it for $3,000 -- secret rewards for helping raise the profile of the very first five-borough New York City Marathon. Air Jordan 1 Retro .It was an instant hit, a `Wow! says George Hirsch, chairman of the board of the New York Road Runners club that on Sunday hosts the 2016 race.What is now the worlds largest marathon began in 1970 when 126 men and one woman circled Central Park. Six years later, about 2,000 amateurs, including Hirsch, took the race to the streets of New York for the first time, touching all five boroughs.Leading the pack were American marathon record-holder Bill Rodgers and Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter, paid to push the 26.2-mile run into the global spotlight. Hirsch -- then a prominent publisher -- passed them the checks under the table, he remembers.We wanted to give the most important runners in the world an incentive to be here, Hirsch says. They made a big difference.Rodgers won the first of his four New York marathons.The payments to hit the pavement certainly paid off.This year, about 50,000 people from more than 120 countries -- half of them women -- have registered. The elite athletes will be competing for a prize purse totaling $803,000, with potential time bonuses. The mens and womens champions will each receive $100,000. And $25,000 goes to the fastest competitor in a wheelchair.All eyes will be on Mary Keitany, of Kenya, last years defending champion, who also won in 2014, and last years male winner, Kenyan Stanley Biwott.Among Americans, Gwen Jorgensen, winner of the triathlon gold medal at the Rio Olympics in August, will be running her first marathon. Molly Huddle, who set a U.S. record while finishing sixth in the 10,000 meters in Rio, is making her first try at this longer distance.The star-studded American field also includes Olympians Dathan Ritzenhein and Kim Conley, who is making her marathon debut.Scattered amid the crowded, sweaty runners will be eight amateurs in their 60s and 70s -- all trailblazers in New York in 1976.Dick Traum was the first person to complete a marathon with a prosthetic leg, in 7 hours, 24 minutes. Asked to step off ahead of the thousands of others, he was the first person ever to start the five-borough marathon.I ran as if you broke your leg and had a cast, trying to get across the street quickly, hopping-style, says Traum, who has a business Ph.D. and created his own computer app company to help companies maximize their resources.At 75, hell mount his handcycle Sunday at the start line near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the borough of Staten Island. A knee replacement on his natural leg disqualifies him from actually running; one leg must be intact by the rules of the race.He lost his limb as a young man when a runaway car crashed into him at a New Jersey gas station.Traum was a member of the New York Road Runners club led by Fred Lebow, a Romanian-born New Yorker and avid runner whose dogged energy fueled the early efforts to expand and elevate the marathon to a global level. Even after his death, Lebow symbolizes the race, his statue standing near the Central Park finish line.For the citys first five-borough run, Lebow, Hirsch and Percy Sutton, Manhattans borough president, had persuaded Mayor Abe Beame to ban traffic from the route that spanned the whole city. On the sidelines were tens of thousands of spectators -- a far cry from the 2 million or so now cheering on runners.The three men told the mayor that the crime-ridden, nearly bankrupt New York of the mid-1970s needed the marathon to lift the citys spirits, Hirsch says.Rodgers and Shorters payments were legal but defied a regulation of the sports governing body, now called USA Track & Field, which classified marathoners as unpaid amateurs. Many struggled financially.New York spurred the worldwide running boom, with ordinary people huffing and puffing their way through big urban marathons that followed in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and elsewhere.The Boston Marathon is the oldest, launched in 1897.Each first Sunday in November, when exhausted participants finally finish, some collapsing into the arms of loved ones, many take away new friendships while collecting funds for more than 300 charities.Four decades after a small group of hard-core enthusiasts started it, the New York marathon has become an athletic and social democracy.In every neighborhood, spectators come at us with a lot of enthusiasm -- and that may be conga drums, it may be somebody banging on cookware, says Paul Fetscher, who ran in 1976. You get to see the best neighborhoods, you get to see the worst, you get to see the richest, you get to see the poorest, and you get to see the immigrant population of Brooklyn, where more than a million people were not born in the United States.But they all love sport, he adds. And running is the most basic of all sports: left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot.In 1976, Fetscher aced the race in 2:29.At 70, still working in commercial real estate, he plans to run the 26.2 miles again. I can still do that. In how much time?Stay tuned on Sunday. Air Jordan 1 From China . Perhaps Carroll was so prepared for a break because he believes there is very little the Seattle Seahawks need heading into the off-season. "I dont see anything that we need to add. We just have to get better," Carroll said. Air Jordan 1 Discount . -- Mike Smith never saw his first NHL goal go in. https://www.cheapairjordan1outlet.com/ . -- Yogi Ferrell orchestrates pretty much everything in Indianas offence. Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall has described the scheduling of Englands fourth autumn international as ludicrous.Eddie Jones men only finished their end-of-year program on December 3, routing Australia to complete a clean sweep of victories that extended their winning run to 14 Tests.However, the players immediately returned to their clubs to prepare for a weekend of Champions Cup action knowing their rivals from other home nations had been rested having completed their international duties seven days earlier.George Kruis, Mako Vunipola, Jamie George and Owen Farrell were back to help Saracens overwhelm Sale 50-3 on Saturday, but McCall insists Englands clubs have been placed at a disadvantage in Europe.For me its ludicrous that the fourth international shouldnt be at the start of the window rather than the end. Its not fair on the Premiership clubs, McCall said. Youre asking players to go again in the Champions Cup the weekend after theyve played Australia.Ireland, Scotland and Wales were able to rest some of their players and youve maybe seen that in some of the other results this weekend - the wins by Muunster and Leinster for example. Air Jordan 1 Outlet. Were incredibly fortunate that weve got the players to whom it means a lot to play for Saracens. They were magnificent, all of them.But I still dont think its right that you continuously have to ask them to back up. In the long run, there shouldnt be a fourth international before a European match.Kruis, who missed the wins over South Africa and Argentina due to an ankle problem, insists Saracens England contingent feel an obligation to resume club hostilities as soon as possible.Id say we get a lot of energy from coming back and looking at how hard the boys have worked., Kruis said. Theyre putting big shifts in, when you lose a few players and youve got some injuries as well. When we come back, weve got to repay that favour.We were smart in how we dealt with training this week. We cut the week a bit shorter.But you do reach some emotional highs playing in these big games. The coaching team understand that and gave us an extra day off as well. ' ' '