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Record Setting Lake Placid Marathon

The Lake Placid Marathon has a new record. On Sunday, John Cho of Summit, New Jersey ran 26.2 miles in the blistering heat to crack the 2:34.39 time Chuck Engle set in 2006 by six seconds. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports he was one of 299 people who participated in the 20th running of the marathon. With 571 people running the half-marathon and 176 running the 10K, the races had 1,046 athletes on the course, the largest crowd the event has put up in eight years.

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