Pre-Race Activities

• Photo 01: Stacy Creamer stretches out on the bench
• Photo 02: Adam Bleifeld asked, "Have you seen Paul (Sternberger)?"
• Photo 03: Kim Mannen took a swig of what we hope was just water.
• Photo 04: Rick Shaver is down on his knees.  Rick would say later, "Just because you were behind me doesn't mean that I didn't know that you took that picture."
• Photo 05: An unidentified ununiformed person is caught with the pants down.
• Photo 06: Carsten Strandlod is counting on continual progress after his post-marathon injury.  Unfortunately, his injury would act up again in this race.
• Photo 07: This is the first of our many encounters with Irene Jackson on this day.
• Photo 08: Your teammates are good for something.  Here a late arriving racer drops off the baggage to teammate Jim Aneshansley to deposit at the baggage check area.  Meanwhile, the race has already been started.
• Photo 09: This is the permanent self-appointed course marshall Bola Awofeso.  He is out there every week, it seems.

East 95th Street (2.7 miles into the race)

• Photo 11: Alan Ruben was in fifth place, being chased by Stephen Marsalee (NYH).
• Photo 12: Peter Allen was in seventh place, but waving at the crowd and looking very comfortable.
• Photo 13: John Kenney is not even in the race, but received many cheers.
• Photo 14: Kim Mannen runs incognito in green.  She won her first team medal with her effort.
• Photo 15: Round 2 with Irene Jackson.

West 91st Street (5.2 miles into the race)

• Photo 21: Peter Allen was still in seventh place, and strong enough to be able to surge into sixth place at the end of the race.
• Photo 22: Theo Spilka looked like he wanted to say that this seemed a lot harder than it used to be.
• Photo 23: Adam Bleifeld roared right through the red light.
• Photo 24: Round 3 with Irene Jackson.

East 96th Street (500 meters left in the race)

• Photo 31: Stacy Creamer was accompanied to the finish by Stuart Calderwood and Paul Stuart-Smith.  Stacy had a bad day at the race.  She said, "It sure wasn't like this when they last had this race in 1990."  Meanwhile, Paul is practicing that hands-in-front-of-the-face-to-prevent-photographs-being-taken move.
• Photo 32: Round 4 with Irene Jackson.  By now, she must have been exhausted at seeing the camera crew (the camera guy plus the loudspeakers Bola Awofeso, Tyronne Culpepper and Audrey Kingsley).
• Photo 33: Margaret Nolan was just ahead of Frank Schneiger.  Margaret said, "I have no team uniform because I am putting the club on probation for a year before I invest."   Frank said, "Thanks for making me laugh so hard that I lose my concentration every time that I see you guys."

Post-Race Activities

• Photo 34: Here is an out-of-town visitor Sylvie Kimché, who is here is soak up some spectator sports (the Chase Millrose Games) as well as cultural activities.  We will not make any jokes about Ohio ...
• Photo 35: Peter Allen smiled with his age-group award in hand.  He thought that this might be a personal record for him, but he said that he would need Alan Ruben to confirm that.
• Photo 36: Alan Ruben holds his first-place age-group award, for what he knew for sure was a personal record since he has never ran this race before.
• Photo 37: Carol Tyler gets her first-place age group award.
• Photo 38: Here is the overall winner of the race, Liam Kinsella (NYH).  An Irishman Liam Kinsella and an Irishwoman Yvonne Callan were the overall winners.  It must be the luck of the Irish in a race called the Lucky Seven-Mile Reversible.
• Photo 39: There was a lottery draw at the end of the award ceremony.  The grand prize was two Air France tickets to attend a marathon in the south of France.  To maximize her chances, Stacy Creamer gathered the entries from teammates and friends who could not be there.  She had so many of them that she needed Stuart Calderwood and Alan Ruben to help her read the numbers.  No, she did not win, not even any of those supplementary t-shirts.