So many stories for this years NYC Marathon

# Lance Armstrong will have a crazy team of people who will pace him: Past marathon winner Alberto Salazar and Joan Benoit Samuelsson and Olympic 1500m and 5000m champion Hicham el-Guerrouj!

# Paul Tergat and Hendrick Ramaala will duel again!

# And there is a sad NY Times column (Times Select unfortunately) by Clyde Haberman about Dr. Carl Henry Nacht, who would have run his 30th marathon this year. Nacht was killed when a tow truck hit his bike on the West Side bike path in June. From the column: