Women's Sports & Fitness
5K / Women's Half Marathon

Happy Mother's Day!

MOTHER'S DAY 5K

• Photo 01: For those people who have never seen Margarita Cabrera without her cap, this is what she looks like without it.
• Photo 02: Kim Mannen explains to Margarita Cabrera that the half-marathoners take off first before the 5K runners.
• Photo 03: In the race itself, Margarita Cabrera puts her cap back on to lead the team.
• Photo 04: Diane Lebowitz seems to run every NYYRC short race.  She was our second woman on this day.
• Photo 05: Kim Mannen went by so fast that we got the alternate view again, as we did over previous occasions.  Let's hope this does not set a trend.  Both Kim and Margarita ran the Boston Marathon, and are using the shorter races to maintain their fitness.
• Photo 07: At the awards ceremony, Diane Lebowitz and Margarita Cabrera picked up their first place team award.  For those cynics, we assure you that there was more than one team present.
• Photo 08: Margarita Cabrera holds her individual age group award in her right hand and her first place team medal in her left hand.
• Photo 09: Bola Awofeso shows us how he finally got a first-place team medal.  Unfortunately, this is a women's team medal that was being held for Kim Mannen.

WOMEN'S HALF MARATHON

STARTING LINE

• Photo 11: Final team roll call: Audrey Kingsley, Sarah Gross, Mary Rosado and Aubin Sullivan.  Plus warnings about how to handle the humidity.
• Photo 12: Equipment check between Aubin Sullivan and Mary Rosado?
• Photo 13: Starting lineup, with the New York Liberty mascot dancing on top of the van.  The national anthem was sung by the New York Liberty's Teresa Weatherspoon.

MILE 1

• Photo 21: Audrey Kingsley has a guilty smile because she has just been chastised for checking out the scenery instead of running.  She said, "Okay.  I'm running.  I'm running."   That wonderful smile would not be seen again.
• Photo 22: Aubin Sullivan was experimenting with a forward lean in this race, at the recommendation of her 'non-runner' husband Ross Galitsky.
• Photo 23: Having been told that there is no smiling in running, Mette Strandlod is all business.

MILE 5

• Photo 51: Alayne Adams runs alongside MCNY's Margaret Morrow.
• Photo 52: Audrey Kingsley's assessment of her situation was 'two thumbs down'.
• Photo 53: When Sarah Gross got to the five mile mark, she felt completely dehydrated.  And there are still eight more miles left to go!
• Photo 54: Aubin Sullivan is another Boston Marathoner.
• Photo 55: Mary Rosado is a non-marathoner, unless her doctor orders it.
• Photo 56: Carol Tyler does not really need to work this hard, because her age-group victory margin was a whopping 18 minutes.
• Photo 57: This is Caryl Baron

MILE 8

• Photo 61: As Alayne Adams came by, she probably knew that this was not going to her day.  So she smiled and said, "I'm just participating."
• Photo 62: At this point, our observer reports that Audrey Kingsley had no sense of humor.
• Photo 63: People were calling out to Sarah Gross to tell her that she looks good, in direct contradiction with how she was feeling.  She does look good, doesn't she?
• Photo 64: Mary Rosado jumps on the dirt trails in order to preserve her feet, which have not been training for long distances races at all.  Her most recent race was a 100m sprint at the Penn Relays.  Like some others, she ran this race for the team's sake, and not for her own health and entertainment.

MILE 13 (JUST BEFORE THE FINISH LINE)

• Photo 71: Alayne Adams churns her feet over quickly to get this over with.  She finished eighth overall and first on the team.
• Photo 72: Audrey Kingsley reaches the finish line and into the arms of the medical staff.  She would not have ran this race just three weeks after the hot-weather Boston Marathon but for the fact that the team needed her in this scoring race.
• Photo 73: Sarah Gross is our third scorer, enough to get the team into third place.  She assessed her accomplishment in stating that "there was no one from (other team name) in front of me."

POST-RACE ACTIVITIES

• Photo 81: For this race, the NYRRC tested the use of chips to record times.  For that purpose, they organized a squad of volunteer chip retrievers.  Here is Stuart Calderwood doing the honors for Carol Tyler.
• Photo 82: Stacy Creamer demonstrates how to use the wire clipper.
• Photo 83: All of a sudden, there was a loud rumble as the earth trembled.  Oh, it was just those two XXXL-sized triathletes J.P. Gravier and Randy Ehrlich passing by on a training run.
• Photo 84: Our non-marathoner Mary Rosado had to ice down her groin muscle.  She asked us to preserve the circumstances for posterity. 
• Photo 85: It was not all for nought, as Mary Rosado picked up a third-place age-group award.
• Photo 86: Carol Tyler collects her first-place age-group award.  She is undefeated in her age group so far this year.
• Photo 87: And who else to accept the third-place team award but Audrey Kingsley, who gave her all today?
• Photo 88: An enthusiastic Charlotte Evans examines her mom's medal.  This picture summarizes this Mother's Day, which Alayne Adams described as "a great day for not running."

MISSING PHOTOS

• Missing Photo: Alan Ruben was the official time-split caller at the mile 3/mile 9 mark near the West 102nd Street transverse.  We understand that he did not add any comments to the times that he was reading out (see, for example, his famous marathon pace comments on his home page).
• Missing Photo: Peter Allen pushing a stroller through the park while his wife Rhonda Allen raced.  Based upon previous history, this means that Peter is prepping his wife for the Spring Couples Relay next week?
• Missing Photo: After Audrey Kingsley crossed the finish line, she was wobbling visibly and was quickly taken to the medical area.   As she laid on the stretcher with an ice pack on her head, she asked "Where is that photographer guy?"  Being photographed is apparently worse than any physical discomfort.  When we caught up to her, we promised her that we would take no post-race pictures of her today in appreciation of her great effort.  (P.S.   The public ethics bill requires us to report that she also paid us a big bribe ... )   Of course, it is unlikely that she trusts us, so she is probably testing the gaps in the file numbers on this page.  This is by no means total paranoia, because she once found some unlisted bathroom pictures this way.