(February 17, 2000)

Stuart Calderwood, Erik Goetze, John Scherrer, Eric Aldrich
(winning 4x800m relay team)

PHOTOGRAPHERS' CORNER

• Photo 01: Getting ready for the night was Mary Olson, examining her camera.  Notice that she even brought her instruction booklet with her.

• Photo 02: There are easier ways to figure things out than reading English instruction booklets written in foreign grammar.  Of course, Mary tried asking us, "Why is this light blinking?" and got no satisfaction.  But we referred her to the professional photographer, Luca Trovato.  No sweat.

PRE-GAME SHOW

• Photo 03: The show opener, which was not listed in the official program guide, was an ensemble workout with John and Devon Sargent.

TWO-MILE RACE

• Photo 04: Stuart Calderwood came well-prepared, having looked up all the times that he had over two miles in over twenty years.

• Photo 05: This is Jerome O'Shaughnessy's first appearance in a Central Park Track Club uniform.

• Photo 07: In the first heat, here is where Erik Goetze and Stuart Calderwood break from the outside to the inside.  No lane violations detected.

• Photo 08: Take a look at Stuart Calderwood ... why would anyone put themselves through this?

• Photo 09: In the second heat, John Scherrer, Craig Chilton, Brian Marchese and Olivier Baillet are coming around on the outside lane.  We have a potential lane violation detected here!  Somewhere in the inside lane, there is the top of Eric Aldrich's head.

• Photo 10: John Scherrer runs with the focused look, with Craig Chilton and Eric Aldrich in tow.

• Photo 11: Brian Marchese said afterwards, "This was the longest two miles I ever ran."  And we used to think that a two- mile race went for two miles!

• Photo 12: Olivier Baillet ran his first track race ever.  His greatest difficulty was that he couldn't keep count!  His official time reflects only 15 laps!

• Photo 13: The reason that this photo made the cut into this collection is definitely not because of high quality.  It is because the guy on the right (since he is with another team, we cannot provide his name) came up to us afterwards and wanted to know if we have any pictures of him in the race.  When we said no, he proceeded to placate us by singing the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.  When that failed to work, he sang the national anthem of the Republic of China, which drew another stony look.  Still, we are awarding him half a body shot for effort, but not totally because he got our political sympathies quite wrong (note: anyone who has looked at this website in any detail would know that we're obviously anarchists).  As Raphael Devalle can testify to, this guy needs a lot of help in getting things right (warning: inside joke present here).  And, in Raphael's words, "Do you want me to do everything for you?"

• Photo 14: Some  people can look terrible for a long time, but they can always muster a blistering kick down the final straightaway.  This is Brian Marchese about to shift into overdrive.  The orange blur in the rear is Eric Aldrich.

• Photo 15: This is Eric Aldrich, also about to shift into overdrive.

• Photo 21: This is the entire starting lineup for the women's heat.  At the far left of this photo is our own Stacy Creamer.  At the far right is the eventual runaway winner Bec Wassner (MCNY), who won the 1999 NYRRC Female Runner 20-29 award.  

• Photo 22: A closer look at the efficiently dressed Stacy Creamer.  Even Kim Mannen had to say, "Wow!"

• Photo 23: The race itself was a runaway in the front, so the interest was on the second-place battle between Patty Andersen-Parrado (MCNY) and Stacy Creamer.

• Photo 24: Here Stacy Creamer is one step ahead of Patty Andersen-Parrado.

• Photo 25: Here Patty Andersen-Parrado is one step ahead of Stacy Creamer, with 300 meters left to go in this race.  As soon as Stacy passed our two camerapersons, she stepped on the accelator and sprinted ahead.  When she came around for the final lap, we could not get a picture either, as she was shielded by a group of lapped runners.

• Photo 26: Then we move on to the final heat for men.  This may just also be Jerome O'Shaughnessy's first track race up here, but he has the temperament for not charging out too fast.

• Photo 27: Jim Olson starts off with easy pacing.

• Photo 30: Of course, Jim will eventually find things a bit harder.

• Photo 28: Yves-Marc Courtines had a specific goal time of 12 minutes in mind.  When he got to the starting line, he wanted to ask, "Who else wants to run 12 minutes?"

• Photo 29: Of course, somewhere towards the end, Yves-Marc will be reminded about the fact that there is an emergency!  We are sorry that we don't have the photo, but the emergency is quite real this time and his name is Jim Olson.

800m RACE

• Photo 31: Our solo entry in this race was Joey Gonzalez.

400m RACE

• Photo 41: In this heat, we have Tyronne Culpepper and Yves-Marc Courtines.

• Photo 42: Tyronne Culpepper sprints to the finish, ahead of Herbie Medina (Millrose) who went out in a suicidal 27 second in the first half.

• Photo 43: This was Yves-Marc Courtines' first 400m race, which he entered at the spur of the moment.

• Photo 44: We make the comment that Yves-Marc is the dream project for the Most Improved Runner award, because it would be so easy.  To begin with, Yves-Marc needs the right shoes.  What are these hiking shoes that he is wearing?  for mountain climbing?  Then, those shorts may look fashionably baggy, but they can't be comfortable for sprinting.

• Photo 45: However, we do not necessarily recommend Tyronne Culpepper's legendary rainbow shorts for Yves-Marc ...

• Photo 46: In the women's heat, we had Sue Krogstad-Hill, whose head inconveniently hides one of the Armory's sponsor's board.

• Photo 47: Running from lane 1 was Kim Mannen.  She said, "I have not run in lane 1 in ages.  When I got out there, the coach had to yell at me to keep my body low instead of coming up around that first bend."  Before this, her biggest decision was a much easier one: "Should I wear a head band or not?"

• Photo 48: Coming through the first lap, Kim Mannen had a lot of ground to make up.  The coach's advice: "We've got to work on you not taking it so easy coming out.  This is not an 800m race, you know."

• Photo 49:  At the last straightaway, this is the gap between Sue Krogstad-Hill (in a national elite class performance) and Kim Mannen.  Keep those shoulders relaxed, Kim!

4x800m RELAY

• Photo 51: Finally, we have the relay which no one seemed to want to run --- "I'm tired", "I don't feel good", "You saw how I looked earlier on", "I am not going to run leadoff", "I am not going to run anchor" and so on.  But we did field two teams.  For the Central Park Track Club men, Erik Goetze was the leadoff runner and immediately jumped into a big lead.

• Photo 52: Throughout the first leg, John Scherrer kept yelling, "That's is not a big enough lead for me."  Here John runs the second leg easily.

• Photo 53: Stuart Calderwood ran the third leg, lapping Yves-Marc Courtines here.

• Photo 54: Eric Aldrich started off the anchor leg with a blazing 28 seconds for 200m, enough to make the coach clutch his heart.  Here he passed Kim Mannen.

• Photo 59: Eric Aldrich said that it was no problem ... The group photo of the entire relay team appears at the top of this page.

• Photo 55: The Central Park Track Club co-ed team was led off by Stacy Creamer.

• Photo 56: The only male member of the co-ed team was Yves-Marc Courtines, in his third race of the night.

• Photo 57: According to coach Tony Ruiz, Kim Mannen was the only one out of the eight runners who knew how to receive a baton correctly without losing time unnecessarily.  Kim said proudly, "Coach Brian Denman taught us to hold our hands out like a V, as in victory."

• Photo 58: The anchor for the co-ed team was Sue Krogstad-Hill.

BREAKAWAY WINNER?

• Photo 91: As the bigwigs NYRRC President Allan Steinfeld and NYRRC Exec V.P. Mary Wittenberg hold out the special NYRRC-branded finish tape, Yves-Marc Courtines charges up with arms held wide and a beaming smile for the finishing photo.  Breakaway winner with no one else in sight behind him?  Wait a minute!  He is running around the track in the clockwise direction ...

MISSING PHOTOS

• Bola Awofeso said, "I am very sick right now, so you should not even come anywhere near me."

• Doug Kabbash said, "The view is much better from the balcony than on the track."

Q&A

• Question: Under photo 13, it was written: "since he is with another team, we cannot provide his name".  Elsewhere on this page, we see the names of Patty Andersen-Parrado (MCNY), Bec Wassner (MCNY) and Herbie Medina (Millrose).  Isn't that a violation of your stated principle?

• Answer: Anyone familiar with Chinese politics knows that it is all about having connections.  The named individuals have powerful connections, and are therefore above the law.  Get it?