Run nine qualifying NYRR races and volunteer at one, and you earn a guaranteed spot in the TCS New York City Marathon. YUHA tracks every step of it from your official results — and coaches each race so you arrive at the start line ready.
It’s New York Road Runners’ path to a guaranteed marathon entry. Complete nine qualifying NYRR races in a calendar year, plus one volunteer shift at an NYRR event, and you skip the lottery for the following year’s NYC Marathon — see the official 9+1 program for the current rules. Simple to say — easy to lose track of across a whole year of racing.
Any nine NYRR-scored races in the same calendar year count — from the Fred Lebow 5K to the Bronx 10-Mile to the borough halves.
Give back once at an NYRR event — a water station, bag check, course marshal — and the plus-one is done.
Finish the set in 2026 and your place at the start line next November is locked. No lottery, no waiting.
Connect once and YUHA reads your official NYRR results automatically. Every qualifying finish and your volunteer credit drop into a live 9-of-9 tracker — no spreadsheets, no manual logging, no wondering where you stand.
Each qualifying race gets the full coach treatment: a course-specific pacing plan, a finish-time prediction from your own fitness, weather for race morning, and a taper that lands you fresh. After you cross the line, YUHA reads the effort — not just the clock — and folds it into what comes next.
YUHA weaves every qualifying race into a single build — so each start line sharpens you for the next, and the whole year points at the marathon you’re actually chasing. The races aren’t a distraction from training. They are the training.
Yes. NYRR runs the official program — you enter the races and log your volunteer shift with them. YUHA is your coach and tracker on top of that: it mirrors your progress, predicts your finishes, and builds the training so nothing slips.
Any nine NYRR-scored races within the same calendar year. YUHA reads your finishes and only counts the ones that qualify, so the tracker always reflects the real total.
YUHA looks at the calendar and the races left, tells you honestly whether nine is still realistic, and lays out the schedule that gets you there without piling on injury risk.
No. YUHA works with the tracker you already own — Garmin, Strava, Google Health, Oura or Apple Health — for the training side, and reads your NYRR results for the 9+1 count.
Free to start. Connect your tracker and let YUHA carry the 9+1.
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