Runner in NYC Marathon came in 50,624th place

One New Yorker took her lateness habit to a whole new level last Sunday. She was the final timed finisher in Sunday’s New York City Marathon.

Crossing the finish line at 7:49 p.m. with a time of 8:44:21, Angela Wint, 44, strode in after 50,623 others. “This is past fashionably late — there’s nothing fashionable about this one,” she told The Post.

The East New York resident started her first marathon with some 50 members of the group Black Girls Run!, before getting separated from the pack.

Friends started to worry when her tracker stopped at Mile 13. For hours, “it was just me, myself and I — and the cops on the side,” said Wint, a medical assistant for NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.

Wint said there were moments when she wanted to give up during the past year or so that she was in training. But her running coach wouldn’t give up on her. “She kind of kicked my butt,” Wint said.

Still, she adds, she wasn’t prepared for just how long the Verrazano Bridge was. “I thought I was really done,” she says about that 4-mile-plus span. “But I said, ‘I can’t stop.’”

She attributes her finish to her mental toughness. “My body gave up a long time ago in that race, but my mind said ‘no.’ Everything hurt, my body was sore, and my body and mind were not working together at all. My mind said, ‘If you stop you will not finish.’ ”
So she kept running.

And on Tuesday, she picked up the medal engraved with her name.

Learning she came in last brought mixed emotions. “I’m glad I’m being honored, but … to …

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