• Photo 1: Erik Goetze grimaces at the camera.  More significant in this photo is the guy next to him, Phil Passen from Urban Athletics.  Phil has been wondering what it takes for his photo to get on this website (which has cult status in this town, according to him).  An obvious hint is for him to stick next to an orange jersey ...

• Photo 2: Jesus Montero may seem to be smiling, but he was not happy about the lack of warm-up time.

• Photo 3: The 3000m and 5000m races started at the same time from the 200m mark.  It was just that 3000m runners do 7.5 laps and 5000m runners do 12.5 laps.

3000m RACE

• Photo 4: One lap after the start, Jerry Marcari was leading while Erik Goetze ran his own race.

• Photo 5: This is a full-sized photo of Erik Goetze, keying on the two runners in front of him.  Erik is known as "the guy in the baggy pants."  Here, he is wearing orange-colored baggy pants.

• Photo 6: By running his own race, Erik Goetze moves into second place.

• Photo 7: Erik Goetze shifts into his sprint finish.  His time was 9:43.1, which he said puts him right back to his time in his high school freshman year.

5000m RACE

• Photo 11: In the longer race, there was a lead pack of 6 after the first lap, including Jesus Montero.

• Photo 12: Very quickly, the lead was reduced to two runners, including Jesus Montero.

• Photo 13: After two miles, Jesus Montero surged into the lead.

• Photo 14: And the gap just grew wider and wider.

• Photo 15: The loneliness of the long-distance runner, all by himself down the backstraight.

• Photo 16: This is victory photo of Jesus Montero, in a time of 17:30.5.  All the race times today should be taken with the perspective that it was hot and humid (100% saturated after the thunderstorm just an hour ago).

LATECOMER

• Photo 21: Eric Aldridge arrived late after the 3000m/5000m races were over already.  Here, he is trying to block the camera in vain, because he did not want any documentation of his tardiness.  He said, "I was sure that I had enough time to make it."