Pre-Race Activities

• Photo 1: In western movies, a standard trick is to attack with the sun behind your back so that the enemy cannot see clearly what is coming at them.  This was what happened to Audrey Kingsley.
• Photo 2: Yumi Ogita goes through her stretching.
• Photo 3: J.R. Mojica shows Margarita Cabrera how to do stretching.
• Photo 4: Margarita Cabrera shows J.R. Mojica that she can stretch too.
• Photo 5: Tyronne Culpepper says, "Please take a picture of me!"  Well, if you insist ...
• Photo 6: Track runner Luca Trovato says, "I'm only providing escort services today".  Rori Spinelli would be escorted to a personal best today.
• Photo 9. Michele Tagliati gets a photo opportunity with his friend Serge from Belgium.  Michele said, "The European connection, you know."
• Missing photo:  The newly married Adam Bleifeld went by in a blur in a training run.  Save your energy, Adam!
• Photo 11: Craig Chilton and Colin Frew wore their new uniforms for the first time.  They seemed a bit shocked to find themselves to be photographic subjects.  Well, they better get used to it ...
• Photo 12: Carmine Petracca gets a photo opportunity with an Italian friend.
• Photo 13: Peter Allen makes equipment adjustment.
• Photo 14: Here are Frank Schneiger and Irene Jackson-Schon.  We are waiting for the inevitable complaint from Frank about not shooting his right side.
• Photo 15: Charlie Stark and Victor Osayi say hello.
• Photo 16: It's 9:59am and Alan Ruben charges to the starting line, only to be told that the race is delayed for ten minutes.  So he dashed off and came back in a wool jacket.  This caused Stacy Creamer to remark, "I have this image that Gordon is shivering somewhere, minus her wool jacket."
• Photo 17: Here indeed are Alan Ruben with the wool jacket, Gordon Bakoulis without the wool jacket and Joey Ruben in the stroller.
• Photo 19: Alas, the race is finally about to start.  A final pose of Alan Ruben without the wool jacket, Gordon Bakoulis with the wool jacket and Joey Ruben in the stroller.
• Photo 18: Group photo (left to right) Victor Osayi, Stuart Calderwood, Carmine Petracca, Stacy Creamer and Luca Trovato.  Stuart and Stacy are the designated cheerleaders of the day.   Let's see --- the three racers wear sunglasses and the two cheerleaders don't.   Is this a pattern?
• Photo 20: At the starting line, we have Central Park Track Club members Colin Frew, Craig Chilton, Alan Ruben, Carmine Petracca, Peter Allen and Rick Shaver.  We are missing that Paul ("I'm always in the front row") Stuart-Smith in the picture.

West 86th Street (2.2 miles into the race)

• Photo 21: Carmine Petracca, Alan Ruben, Paul Stuart-Smith and Peter Allen are stretched out in a line.  That would not be the final order of finish, though.
• Photo 22: Peter Allen with a grimace.
• Photo 23: Craig Chilton has that pained look because this is another uphill section.  It goes without say that the photographer is always positioned in these most awkward spots.  So everytime you go up a hill, you've got to remind yourself to keep good form (and expression) because the photographer is likely to be at the top.
• Photo 24: Colin Frew practices the no-look form.
• Photo 25: Charlie Stark is another no-looker.
• Photo 26: Tyronne Culpepper has sunglasses on, so it is impossible to see if he is also a no-look practitioner.
• Photo 27: Irene Jackson is followed by Margarita Cabrera.

East 78th Street (4.8 miles into the race)

• Photo 31: Alan Ruben is our team leader, as is often the case.  Last week, another Master runner Stuart Calderwood led the team.  Does our coach have to keep reminding us that the Masters are doing all the hard work?
• Photo 32: Paul Stuart-Smith was stalking Carmine Petracca, and in fact passed him near the top of the hill.   We recommend Carmine to show up at the track workouts ...
• Photo 33: Craig Chilton wonders why the finish is at the top of a hill.
• Photo 34: This is a photo of our friend Alexa Babakhanian, who is trying to say something ...  Alexa finished second overall in the race.
• Photo 35: Stuart Calderwood tells Tyronne Culpepper to speed it up because Carsten Strandlod is right behind him.  Before the race, those two had some trash talk about trading elbows in the ribs if it were to come down to a sprint finish.  When the moment of truth came at the bottom of Cat Hill, each was in fact ready to fold.  "You go."  "No, you go." Whatever happened to guts and glory?
• Photo 36: Another instance of negative reinforcement, when everybody tells Audrey Kingsley to chase down Victor Osayi.  They were also telling Victor that Audrey is going to kick his butt!

Post-Race Activities

• Photo 41: Audrey Kingsley got an award in her new (and more competitive) age group.  She was ninth overall, but only seventh in her age group.  She would have been second in her former age group.
• Photo 42: Audrey Kingsley tells Tyronne Culpepper, "Eat your heart out!"
• Photo 43: Craig Chilton wonders, "I kill myself out there, and this is all I get?"  For the record, he is holding the awards for the first-place Men's team.  New members Craig Chilton and Colin Frew were the fourth and fifth scorers on the team, respectively, for a great start.  The noteworthy thing about this scoring team is that they are all foreigners: Alan Ruben (United Kingdom), Peter Allen (New Jersey), Carmine Petracca (Italy), Craig Chilton (Canada) and Colin Frew (United Kingdom). Paul Stuart-Smith (United Kingdom) would have been third if he were eligible.