PRE-RACE ACTIVITIES

• Photo 01:  One of the perils of being a member of this team is that you have to be alert all the time.  But you can always count on your teammates for help.  Here, Yves-Marc Courtines steers Sarah Gross to look in the right direction.
• Photo 02: Frank Schneiger and Lynn Blackstone watch the unveiling of the Fred Lebow plaque. 
• Photo 03: The front of Alan Ruben and the back of Paul Stuart-Smith at the front row.
• Photo 04: This is the only photo of Jonathan Federman today, since this old singlet is unidentifiable out there.  How about investing in a new one, huh?

WEST 86th STREET, 1.8 MILES

• Photo 11: Gordon Streeter even has a long-sleeve orange jersey.
• Photo 12: Yves-Marc Courtines & Jose LaSalle are running shoulder to shoulder at this point.  Without Yves-Marc's new singlet, Jose may have not realized that they are teammates.
• Photo 13: Sarah Gross looks quite humorless, having just climbed to the highest point (in altitude) of the race.  Back behind her is the usual cheering squad of Stacy Creamer and Stuart Calderwood.

CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE, LESS THAN 0.5 MILE TO GO

• Photo 21: In a recent note, we commented that we felt that our photos are becoming repetitious (to wit, too many shots of Alan Ruben coming down the straightway).  So we relocated our photographer today to get a shot of Alan Ruben with Cleopatra's Needle in the background.  In the final analysis, we are not sure that we were completely successful, as the landmark dominated the people.
• Photo 22: Peter Allen is a cloud of orange today.
• Photo 23: Paul Stuart-Smith ran two races today --- a two miler and a three miler.  This is his first hard effort since that Joe Kleinerman 10K, so it was really a trial.
• Photo 24: Gordon Streeter  characterizes himself as being not in full training at present.
• Photo 25: Rick Shaver
• Photo 26: Jose LaSalle
• Photo 27: Yves-Marc Courtines, looking strained at being dropped by both Jose LaSalle and Lindsey Scherf ...
• Photo 28: Sarah Gross would finish as sixth overall female, in addition to first female Master.
• Photo 29: Eden Weiss
• Photo 30: Frank Schneiger alerted the photographer that his left side is his 'good' side.  Unfortunately, there is no way to do that if the Needle is to be included in the background.
• Photo 31: Right behind Carol Tyler is the famous Alexander Hamilton statue, which is a frequent landmark in our workouts.

MISSING PHOTOS

• Stacy Creamer retrieving a riderless horse on the bridle path.  We have yet to figure out what she couldn't do ...
• Regina Jacobs jogging around the bridle path, as observed by Mel Washington who said, "I said hello to her, as if we were old friends."  Just the day before, Regina won $10,000 for breaking the mile record at the Armory Track in the second best American time ever.