1998 Lesbian & Gay Pride Run

Lesbian & Gay Pride Five Miler

PRE-RACE ACTIVITIES

Photo 1: Mary Rosado, Lucy White, Tyronne Culpepper and Ramon Bermo wave to the camera. Ramon filed his usual complaint, "Must you start so soon? Couldn't we just have a few private moments to ourselves first?"
Photo 2: Carsten Strandlod is hoping to continue his PR-setting streak today. He still does not have a club singlet, but he has found a fake orange-colored singlet. He knows that he will not be photographed without orange. Hear ye! Hear ye!
Photo 4: Mary Rosado does a warm-up run on a very warm day with lousy air quality.

COMMUNITY RUN (2 MILER)

Photo 5: John Sargent set a PR of 12:09 in this race (well, he has never ran this distance before). His mile splits were 5:40 (on the uphill mile going out) and 6:29 (on the downhill mile coming back). Ouch!
Photo 6: John Sargent, M.D., does the post-mortem analysis with Devon Sargent ("the faster one in their household") providing counsel. This is John's fourth race ever, and he is planning on the next one. Given his experience today, he is thinking about a mile race on the track. Good (and safe) idea!

FIVE MILE RACE (West 93rd Street)

Photo 11: Our team leaders were Alan Ruben and Ramon Bermo. Ramon has made a habit of using the metronomic Alan as a benchmark of his own pace.
Photo 12: Carsten Strandlod thought that he was doing this as an individual accomplishment. Little did he know that the team would have to count on him ...
Photo 13: Another piece of team running with Lucy White and Audrey Kingsley.
Photo 14: Yet another piece of team running with Kevin Arlyck and Raphael Devalle. Neither one of them has a team uniform yet.
Photo 15: For contrast, here is Mary Rosado's solo effort in her one-of-a-kind team uniform.

FIVE MILE RACE (East 93rd Street)

Photo 20: Marty Stanton tells Eric: "Look at the camera and smile!"
Photo 21: Alan Ruben does his usual thing: an age-group win with a team-leading performance.
Photo 22: Ramon Bermo apologized to the web photograher later: "Usually, I would say hello to you. But I was really not feeling good at that point." Well, he had better focus on holding off that New York Harrier (Steve Marsalese) behind him. For the record, not only did Ramon hold his pursuer off, he also passed the man in front of him (Alfonso Polonia).
Photo 23: Tim Evans is the third scoring club member, although he wears a Cambridge Sports Union singlet.
Photo 24: Michael Garland is the fourth scoring club member, although he is in serious danger of being disqualified for not having his 'race number visible at all times'.
Photo 25: Our first woman Alayne Adams is running away from our fifth man, Carsten Strandlod.
Photo 26: A gloomy picture of Jud Santos, who had the proverbial bad day. Take a look around him to see the company that he keeps (let us see, someone twice his weight and wearing a red BAMA shirt and some guy pushing a baby stroller ...).
Photo 27: Our second and third women, Yumi Ogita and Rae Baymiller, are being encouraged by cheerleader Dan Hamner (in red).
Photo 28: Tyronne Culpepper was hoping that the photographer would not see him. As Ramon Bermo noted, "Tyronne was ahead of Alan and I after the first half mile. I really wanted to reach out and pull him back."
Photo 29: Mary Rosado heads towards the finish, and uses her track sprinting credentials to outkick Diane Kenna (New York Harriers).

POST RACE ACTIVITIES

Photo 30: Stacy Creamer, Irene Jackson and Sylvie Kimché did not race today, using all sorts of excuses (such as post-marathon recovery and chronic back pain)
Photo 31: What is Bola Awofeso trying to explain to Lucy White? The art of DNF for a limo ride (at the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon last weekend)?
Photo 32: Raphael Devalle and Dan Hamner are hydrating. This is Raphael's first race for the club. He comes to us with a sub-3 hour marathon time, although he has never done track workouts before. So some of this is quite new to him.
Photo 33: Also hyrdating is Joey Ruben. According to his mom, this child is tall and thin for his age. Need we wonder why? Everything is working according to plan ...
Photo 34: The good news for Joey is that mom (Gordon Bakoulis) and dad (Alan Ruben) are going to take him to the beach.
Photo 35: Kevin Arlyck said, "Please don't take my photo. I had a bad race." Not to worry, because there are no minimum performance requirements as such. If there were, the guy in the next photo would have been erased from the face of the earth.
Photo 36: After a dismal performance, Jud Santos said, "I am useless. I should not be going out to Fire Island on weekends." So why does he still have a big smile on his face?
Photo 37: Michael Garland is missing the letters CEN on his singlet. Is there a mystical significance?
Photo 38: Mary Rosado and Audrey Kingsley are munching on post-race goodies. Audrey is very happy because this is the first race ever in which she managed to record all the splits on her watch (6:25, 6:28, 6:49, 6:56, 6:23) and she has been doing many, many races.
Photo 41: Jackie Cortes is rehabilitating herself from a serious injury. She did not run very hard today. She shows us how her arm has recovered.

MISSING PHOTOS

In the middle of the race, Jud Santos came to a dead halt, arms on hips, bending over and hyperventilating. When Tyronne Culpepper saw Jud in this state, his first thought was, "Where is our web photographer? This would have been the greatest photo ever." Sorry, we were not there, so you will have to use your imagination.

None of our Italians were seen at the race today. What happened to them? They must have been all watching Gli Azzurri play Norway in the World Cup game starting at 1030am and singing Va, pensiero in chorus.
Upon reading the above, Michele Tagliati sent in this note: "As you properly noticed the absence of the small but colorful Italian contingent, I feel I have to spend a word in our defense ... Luca Trovato is out west (Napa Valley) to shoot one of his beautiful photo reportages, I was on call at Mount Sinai and I think Carmine Petracca was working at the UN on Saturday. Anyway, we were definitely all watching the Italian triumph over Norway. For the record, we were singing - with the right hand on the heart - Fratelli d'Italia (the official italian anthem) and not Va, pensiero (the much more beautiful Verdi's aria that many in Italy believe should be our national anthem) ..."