By Lindsay Crouse

Peter Ciaccia, the new race director of the New York City Marathon, may not know his marathon time (3:15? 3:30?), but he knows how to give a party. Now he will have to determine the existential course of the world's biggest marathon: Should it be more race or more social event?

Ciaccia maintains that the race is for everyone, across the world, or at least as many as can make it under the ever-expanding cap, which is now 50,000 runners.

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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/