All smoke, no mirrors: The marathon magician made the competition disappear.

Oz Pearlman, a New York City-based magician and mentalist, led a pack of about 960 runners to win the Long Island Marathon on a sun-soaked day Sunday– a year after coming in second place in the race and two weeks after competing in the Boston Marathon.

Pearlman, 32, who crossed the finish line at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow in 2 hours, 25 minutes, 25 seconds, beat out second-place finisher Jerry Pannullo by more than 20 minutes. Pannullo, 45, of East Islip, came in at 2:46:51 and Brooklyn’s Viktor Chistyakov, 36, was third at 2:53:22. Read more at:

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