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Meredith Vieira and Al Roker were among the celebrities who competed with 20,000-plus runners in the New York City Marathon. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
Meredith Vieira, Al Roker, radio personality Robin Quivers, Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle, and trapped Chilean miner Edison Pena were among the celebrities who competed in the New York City Marathon along with thousands of other runners.
Viera, after she ran a 5:59 race, got a foot massage on the Today show the next day.
While Roker, the weatherman the NBC show, said he had been training since March for the 26.5-mile race, according to USA Today.
Vieira ran an hour and ten minutes faster than Roker.
Jared, the Subway spokesperson who once weighed more than 400 pounds, ran the race in 5:13:28.
"If I can do it, anybody can get off the couch and do one to two miles," Fogle told USA Today.
Quivers said that losing 80 pounds "totally changed" her life for the better, enabling her to run the marathon, according to People magazine.
"It was something that was never on my radar," she told People. "Then I thought, why not just do it? Why not just throw my body out there and try and see what I can do?"
Trapped Chilean miner Edison Pena ran the race injust under six hours, citing knee pain for his time, according to the New York Times. Pena was nicknamed "The Runner" because he ran around six miles a day underground for the more than two months he was trapped there.“First of all, I want to say that I would have run faster,” he told the Times. “And I did run faster in the mine.”
