HOLIDAY 4 MILER

• Photo 01: This is Jim Olson's first race in about two years.  He still has that Michael Trunkes-imprint singlet, since it was unnecessary to get an upgrade.  (Special note for David Pullman: this is the mugshot of the person who took your gear at the Tuesday workout ...)
• Photo 02: Jim Olson stops Fasil Yilma to inform him about his comeback.  That was enough to make Fasil groan, "Oh, that means I'll have to come back ..."
• Photo 03: Sid Howard looks around to check the weather.  He needed to run six NYRRC races in order to qualify for the awards.  When he told his plan to run this last race of the year as his sixth one, he got this prediction, "Watch!  It'll snow that day and the race will be cancelled."
• Photo 04: Chris Jurkiewicz is underneath the finish clock, except the race has not started yet
• Photo 05: Notwithstanding the threat of bad weather, Sid Howard finishes the race in fine form.
• Photo 06: Jim Olson

HOLIDAY 15K

• Photo 10: The computer chips come in different colors.  For the fashion-conscious people with many running shoes, this proves to be no challenge.  Here are Dan Sack's yellow shoe matched with the yellow chip, and Craig Chilton's black shoe matched with the black chip.  Aesthetically, we might have challenged their choices --- we think that the yellow chip should go with the black shoe and vice versa.
• Photo 11: After 200m in the race, John Scherrer looks around and cannot believe that he was in second place.
• Photo 12: Craig Chilton explained that he is running this race because he has been sick.  Excuse us?  Please explain again ...
• Photo 13: This photo appeared on the NYRRC site with this caption: "Central Park TC's Craig Chilton and Harrier Per Jamtelid helped each other through the midpoint, though the latter dusted the former in the end by half a minute." 

Technical note: Low battery level --- forgot to recharge ...