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No runners were reported missing after the New York City marathon, but the body was dressed in leggings and wrapped in a heat blanket.

Legally blind lawyer Richard Bernstein was struck and injured by a speeding cyclist as he was training for the NYC Marathon. "I should have said to the guy, 'Are you blind?'" Bernstein joked.

It seems that the uneasy alliance of pedestrians, bicyclists and squirrels that form the circle of life in Central Park (also known as "Simbaringaneuensis") has started breaking down.

Grete Waitz, the Norwegian marathoner who won the New York City Marathon

Edison Pena, after being rescued from a Chilean mine that collapsed