1999 Brooklyn Half Marathon

MILE 4 CONEY ISLAND

• Photo 1. This photo was taken from the D train overpass, as the runners came off the boardwalk and headed north on Ocean Parkway.  Can you find the two frontrunners in the picture?  Can you find the trailing pack?  (Hint: the two leaders finished the race more than a minute ahead of the rest.)

MILE 10 PROSPECT PARK

• Photo 3. For some reason Kevin Arlyck has a smile on his face, despite having been sternly reminded by Bola Awofeso a few minutes earlier that "There's no smiling in running!"   Note: Bola would see Kevin again at mile 13, and he was no longer smiling.

FINISH LINE

• Photo 2.  Alan Ruben, on his way to a seventh-place overall finish, first master, as well as leading the team.   Afterwards Alan offered that he seemed to have "recovered well" from his victorious 50K race the previous weekend.  Yeah, no kidding.

• Photo 4. Here's the usual pack of top-finishing CPTCers: Peter Allen in front (1:14:00), followed by Ramon Bermo (1:14:05) and Stuart Calderwood (1:14:11).

• Photo 5. Stuart looks like he might want to have a word or two with the course designers regarding their placement of the finish line at the top of a winding hill.  However, he recovered quickly enough to encourage his slower teammates up the same hill (though not Paul Stuart-Smith and Carmine Petracca, who can be seen in the background).

• Photo 6. Carmine Petracca was officially the 5th member of the second-place CPTC Open Men's team, as Paul is still not eligible to score.  Paul had to be consoled with a two-and-a-half minute PR.

Technical note: The photographer was almost out of film at this point, and needed to save a couple exposures for her friends back in the pack.  Apologies to the rest of the racers.

Quiz: Ramon Bermo wrote to the website guy: "I looked for you the whole 13.1 miles  ... I have to say that I'm a little disappointed that you weren't there."  Still, that does not mean that the Global Surveillance System (TM) was out of action, because here are the photos.  So who was the photographer?  (You have more than enough hints).

Postscript: Notwithstanding these hints, some people still believed that the regular website photographer was out there, possibly in disguise.  Well, it would be difficult for him to pass as a tall, pretty blonde woman (see Photo).