New York City Marathon.

Caines has spent much of the summer months preparing for this challenge to break Ray Swan's long-standing record of two hours, 26 minutes and 35 seconds for the 26.1-mile run in Boston.

Pushing Caines among the local runners will be Manuel Lopes, a veteran of marathons in the Big Apple while the only other long-distance runner of note will be Ray Ming.

There are eight first-time marathoners in Bermuda group and five women, none of whom will be challenging Debbie Butterfield's record of 2:54:18 set in the 1990 Bermuda International Marathon.

The fastest time by a Bermuda-based runner in New York was 2:25:23 by Peter Lever in 1983.

Margaret Young Lever will be using the race as a training run for Bermuda International eRace Weekend. She plans to stop at the 16-mile mark.

Bermuda contingent Men: Newton Adcock, Pat Brew, John Buckley, Steven Caines, Francesco Caparra, Richard Clark, George Correia, David Doyle, Vernal Durham, Simon Farmer, Ed Gomez, Harry Gwiasda, Uwe Huber, Colin Johnson, George Jones, Manfred Jung, Manuel Lopes, David Mason, Alex McLaughlin, Lars Melen, Ronald Mills, Raymond Ming, Ken Monkman, Kenneth O'Neill, Lee Ogden, Anthony Raynor, Peter Slater, Derek Stapley, Burnell Swan, Leslie Swan, Elvin Thomas, Terrence Ward.

Women: Kim Mason, Rhiono Pedro, Margaret Young Lever, Moira Scupham, Joanne Sutherland.