After the Club Championships race on August 19, 2000, there was a brunch for Central Park Track Club members and friends at Carol Tyler's apartment on the Upper West Side.  Her roofdeck was filled to the brim with people who ate, drank and chatted.

THE ORGANIZERS

• Photo 01: Carol Tyler was gracious enough to put up with this mob at her very nice multiplex apartment.  Another instrumental organizer is our social director Julia Casals, who is leaving momentarily for California but is as yet totally unpacked ("as long as I know where my swimming suit is, everything will be fine.").  Others among the credits are Eve Kaplan and Sid Howard.
• Photo 02: The kitchen crew --- Carol Tyler and Ana Echeverri --- ensures a constant supply of food and drinks.

FOOD & DRINKS

• Photo 21:  First there were three empty bottles, then there were four and then there were five.  We promised that we won't identify the responsible party because she had a great race today and deserved every bottle.
• Photo 22:  Bring your own food if you wish.  Here is Kim Mannen's contribution, which is distinctly not Texan home cooking.
• Photo 23:  In appreciation of his efforts, a thank-you cake was to be presented.  Unfortunately, Tony Ruiz was locked out of his car and had to go back to Brooklyn to fetch his extra keys.  So this is the photographic representation of the cake that he would have seen.  Although this cake would make an appearance later at the softball game, the lettering had melted away by then.

PHOTOS OF RELAXED PEOPLE

• Photo 11:  Jonathan Pillow is a picture of contentment.
• Photo 12:  Rob Zand hates early morning races.  To wake up for this race, he said that he used four alarm clocks.  So now is the time to lay back and relax.
• Photo 13:  Victor Osayi was bumped down to sixth (and non-scoring) masters this race.  Of course, he knew about the big four (Alan Ruben, Stuart Calderwood, Peter Allen, John Kenney) were there, so he keyed on Tom Hartshorne.  Instead, unknownst to him, 51-year-old Alston Brown ran in a generic orange singlet and opened the race with a 5:05 mile to become the fifth master on the team (and 1st overall Male 50+).  Victor says, "That's okay.  Now that I know who he is, it won't happen next time."  Hmmm, Victor, how about keying on someone from another team?
• Photo 14: After a personal best today, Olivier Baillet's work is not done yet.  He has the Central Park Triathlon for tomorrow morning, and Ironman USA in 2001 (as detected by Ramon Bermo, who has lots of time of hand outside of his own training to browse through race entry databases).
• Photo 15:  Tyronne Culpepper ran easy today, and nursed a bottle of beer as his reward.
• Photo 16:  John Scherrer said, "I can summarize my race today in three words --- 'I blew it!'  However, I can say that my first three miles (15:40) were even faster than that in the Gridiron 5K in January."
• Photo 17:  Bola Awofeso has orange juice and a bagel to replenish energy from a morning of hard labor.