Race officials will make multilingual announcements when it’s time for runners to line up in their assigned corrals. Please follow the instructions of the race officials, and follow the signs and video to enter your corral. Please see the start schedule below, and check back closer to race day for a detailed schedule of wave start times. Please visit our website for more information.

The timeline below was for the 2017 TCS New York City Marathon; please check back for 2018 information, and please note that all information is subject to change.
 

Time	Official Start
8:30 a.m.	Professional Wheelchair Division
8:52 a.m.	Achilles Handcycle Category and Select Athletes with Disabilities
8:55 a.m.	Foot Locker Five Borough Challenge
9:20 a.m.	Professional Women
9:50 a.m.	Wave 1 (including Professional Men)
10:15 a.m.	Wave 2
10:40 a.m.	Wave 3
11:00 a.m.	Wave 4