PRE-RACE ACTIVITIES

• Photo 01: Dan Sack changes into spikes.  He said, "Maybe I can't run any faster in spikes, but I can use them to step on other people."

• Photo 02: David Pullman and Efrain Gonzalez.  Efrain was not in the race today; he was just out there for a timed workout.  In the background are Oscar Rojas and Herbie Medina, both with Millrose now.

• Photo 03: For most people, it is a long train ride up the number 1 line to Van Cortlandt Park.  It is therefore important to bring reading material.  Here, Stuart Calderwood shows us what he was reading --- Toby Tanser's Train Hard, Win Easy: The Kenyan Way .

• Photo 04: At the starting line with David Diviney, David Pullman and Erik Goetze.

• Photo 05: Tivon Jacobson wears a non-standard-issue orange long sleeve.  At least, this is better than white (re: David Diviney).

• Photo 81: Toby Tanser explains the functional design of his high-tech sunglasses --- the right lens is blue and the left lens is orange, for the club colors.  So people should not be surprised if Toby keeps drifting off the path because of the imbalance of light.

OPEN MEN'S RACE: THE BRIDGE (1.2 MILE MARK)

• Photo 83: Toby Tanser ran with the leaders at this point.  He might have gone faster, but he was concerned about getting lost on this course as this was his first time in Van Cortlandt Park.

• Photo 11: Erik Goetze is followed by Isaya Obwiya.  This is Isaya's first cross country race, which he summarized as, "I died in those hills!"

• Photo 12: Eric Aldrich is followed closely by Jesus Montero.

• Photo 13: After this race, G'mo Rojas made this determination --- enough of that long and slow stuff, speedwork is what's needed.

• Photo 14: Tivon Jacobson set a PR today, which was easy since he has no other previous time in a 5K.

• Photo 15: Yves-Marc Courtines and David Pullman, who gives the thumbs up sign.  It is easy to give a thumbs up sign going into the hills; it is much harder after you come out of them.  We'll see ...

OPEN MEN'S RACE: THE BRIDGE (2.3 MILE MARK)

• Photo 21: Out of the hills came the race leader in a blur.  It was Toby Tanser, who didn't know the course.  Here he is charging back over the bridge screaming, "Where do I go?  Where do I go?"  Make a right, Toby, make a right ...

• Photo 22: Erik Goetze in a wonderworld of fall leaves.

• Photo 23: We are a bit ambivalent about posting this photo with Eric Aldrich in it.  On one hand, this is going to encourage non-CPTC people to throw themselves between our runners and our camera in the future.  On the other hand, Toby Tanser is really intrigued by this person because he is also from Sweden!

• Photo 24: Jesus "Suso" Montero, in perfect balance, form and focus.

• Photo 25: David Diviney says he is working hard on getting a team uniform. 

• Photo 26: G'mo Rojas would like to tell you that he was dying in this race, but he sure doesn't look it.

• Photo 27: We would curious to find out what Kiet Vo's time was, as he had a perfect string of running every cross country slower than the previous one.  Maybe our camera will motivate him to run faster today?

• Photo 28: Yves-Marc Courtines said, "I had no idea what to do in this race.  So I just followed someone and I was hoping to pass him once I can see where the finish is.  But I saw your camera set up there, so I'll be damned if I didn't surge right there and then."  If that's what works for our team, then we should set up cameras every fifty feet on the course (and they don't all have to be working either).  The person next to him is New York Harrier Ted Peterson.

• Photo 29: Strictly speaking, this is not Tivon Jacobson's first cross country race, as he did the NYU Fall Leaf Classic a few weeks ago.  But that is an intramural affair whose results are guarded by Scott Willett with the utmost secrecy.

• Photo 30: Hey, hey, David Pullman, what happened to that thumbs up sign?

OPEN WOMEN'S RACE: 1.3 MILE MARK (UP THE HILL)

• Photo 31: This is Martha Rojas, the sister of G'mo Rojas (and the better athlete in the family).  She swears that her club application has been printed, filled put, stamped and ready to mail the next day.  Let's hope this photo does not dissuade her ...

MASTERS MEN'S RACE: 1.3 MILE MARK (UP THE HILL)

• Photo 41: In second place at this point was Stuart Calderwood.

• Photo 42: Frank Handelman has been up this way many, many times before.

• Photo 43: Sid Howard eyes left.  Who's there?

• Photo 44: Richie Stewart reported that he had a lot of fun today.  Fun?  What's that got to do with it?

MASTERS MEN'S RACE: THE BRIDGE (2.3 MILE MARK)

• Photo 51: Stuart Calderwood is a very careful student of running form.  He would be the first one to recognize that when he is tired, then one of his arms has a superfluous motion.

• Photo 52: Hard to believe, but Dan Sack just ran the New York City Marathon last week.  But at least he has promised not to run the Philadelphia Marathon next week.  Postscript: After Dan read the preceding sentence, he told us, "But I AM running the Philadelphia Marathon!"  Sorry about the misinformation.  We should have known better.

• Photo 53: When Frank Handelman gets tired, he has his rolling head motion but he has a long way to go to match Paula Radcliffe.

• Photo 54: Okay, what is Herbie Medina's photo doing on this website?  Most of all, we want to thank him and his Millrose team for a fine gesture (see the Results section for the whole story).  But then, regardless of this issue, we all love him, don't we?

• Photo 55: Mark Gombiner opens his mouth to get more oxygen.

• Photo 56: At this point, someone yelled at Sid Howard, "800 meters left to go.  2:14!!!"  We are not sure that he heard a thing.

• Photo 57: Yes, Richie Stewart is having fun, fun, fun ...

• Photo 58: J.R. Mojica is bouncing between injuries.

MASTER WOMEN'S RACE: 1.3 MILE MARK (UP THE HILL)

• Photo 61: Holding second place securely and running her own race is the very serene-looking Stacy Creamer.

• Photo 82: Stacy Creamer in another moment of serene contemplation.

• Photo 62: The good thing about cross-country races is that the final straightway is very long, and you can see people from a long distance away.  This is Stacy Creamer seen through a 14X zoom lens from the finish line.

• Photo 63: Stacy Creamer drives through the last few meters.  When she got to the end of the chute, she was interrogated immediately, "How old are you?" since she does not look 40.  That made her feel really GOOD!

• Photo 64: Mary Rosado from faraway.

• Photo 65: Mary Rosado closing in on the finish.

LATECOMERS

• Photo 71: First of all, there was this apparition named Edwin Fajardo who was actually in the masters race.  Meanwhile, we were disappointed in not seeing Audrey Kingsley up here during the race.  As it turned out, she took the number 4 train to come up and promptly got lost.  She said, "I asked sixteen different people and I must have been all over the Bronx."  Luckily, she brought her crip notes for economics and she had ample reading material on the run.