PRE-RACE ACTIVITIES

• Photo 01:  First things first.  We have to make sure that we get a photo of Mary Rosado so that she can get Powerbar points.

• Photo 02:  Audrey Kingsley is a cooperating subject, and a model for the other people in the background --- Eve Kaplan, Julia Casals and Sarah Gross.

• Photo 03:  Blair Boyer wonders where everybody is.  He can't find them because they're all out of uniform, including Blair himself (well, almost everyone ...).

• Photo 04:  To look for your teammates, always check the front first.  Yes, as usual, we found Toby Tanser and Paul Stuart-Smith.

• Photo 05:  Here is the view of those two Brits from behind the Marine Corps color guard during the (pre-recorded) singing of the national anthem, on the occasion of the day to commemorate America's Independence (from the Brits!).

• Photo 06:  Here is our unabashed grovelling for some future commercial support from Tommy Hilfiger and Macy's.  The only problem is that our two teammates look quite humorless.  This is no way to sell ...

• Photo 07:  Surprise, but those two blokes can actually smile.  So it becomes an interesting technical problem about how we can cut and past this photo to the previous one.  But wait a minute, this one has got an utterly humorless Isaya Okwiya between them, so we'll have to cut him out ...

• Photo 08:  Shula Sarner says, "Watch me!  I can run with my eyes closed!"  Oh, by the way, she's a Brit too.

EAST 93rd STREET (3.6 MILES)

• Photo 11:  The race leader at this point is none other than Toby Tanser.  As he came to this point, someone said to him, "Five seconds.  You've got five seconds on the next guy."  Of course, coming from this notoriously unreliable source, Toby may just be dubious because this could just an act of sadistic torture.  But we will show you the long shot.  Was it really a five second gap?  In any case, Toby paid heed and finished 13 seconds ahead.

• Photo 13:  Paul Stuart-Smith is just ahead of a tight pack.  With his extra-long stride, he would be hard to catch.

• Photo 14:  Audrey Kingsley appeared to have manouveured herself right behind another runner, but that was not good enough to escape the photographer.  Name her expression?  Resignation?  Indifference?

• Photo 15:  Another contribution to the neverending Shula Sarner race photo collection.

• Photo 16:  This is Julia Casals' "Don't do as I do" cautionary photo.  She is committing the capital crime of looking at someone else instead of ahead to the finish.  Or is she looking for human shields because she just saw the photographer ahead?

• Photo 17:  Now this is the right way, Julia --- head held up high and straight and perfect form for a personal record by 2 minutes.

• Photo 18:  Our hands must have been shaking when we took this picture, due to sensory overload from too many multisport athletes showing up at the same time.  Julia Denney, Ramon Bermo, Ross Galitsky, Sarah Gross.  But where is Scott Willett hiding?

POST-RACE ACTIVITIES

• Photo 21:  Audrey Kingsley proudly displays the first-place finisher's plaque.  Please note that her index finger is strategically placed over the non-existent "WO" in front of the words "MEN'S DIVISION 1st PLACE."

• Photo 22:  Julie Denney has already done the swim thing before the run thing.  When asked whether she had bricks in that big backpack for additional weight, she said, "It might as well be."  Oh, for your information, she's got her wet suit in there.

• Photo 23:  Scott Willett says, "I don't even worry about being photographed anymore.  Like everything else on the website, it's all untrue."  Golly, and we thought photographs don't lie?  P.S.  We forgot to thank him for sending the Cole Gym Swimming Pool at NYU into our list of top ten users.

• Photo 24:  These are Scott Willett's new Nike running shoes-slippers.  He recommends them highly, saying that they give him the quickest transition from the door of his apartment to the sofa.  This may be the last time that you will see them in white, because Scott hates white and he will be painting them black following the advice of the Rolling Stones.

• Photo 25:  Josh Friedman says, "This is only my third running race ever.  My first three miles were 5:45, 6:18 and 6:50.  I don't think this is the way to do it.  I've got to learn to pace myself better."  Josh is a perennial procrastinator who has not yet turned in a team application, but he is a frequent website visitor (see the entries from Yeshiva University (yu.edu) in our log reports).  Let's see if this note will do the trick to get him to put some cash into the club coffers ...

• Photo 26: Sylvie Kimché shows us the guest pass that she is going to relinquish to some undeserving person because she has to leave early today.

KIDDIES' RACE

• Photo 31:  Casey Yamazaki says, "Please don't take a picture of me, but make sure you take a picture of the rest of the family."  So here are  Yumi Ogita and daughter Erika Maple Ogita-Yamazaki. 

• Photo 32:  Close-up of Erika.  Don't these kids just love the excitement of these races?

• Photo 33:  This is Rupert Stuart-Smith.  His dad was scouting out the competition; specifically, "Is that Ruben boy going to be here?"  To his disappointment (relief?), the answer was no.

• Photo 34:  Not ready to run yet is Rupert's little sister, Louisa Jasmine Anastasia.  It will be ... oh, say ... one year and 11 months before she is eligible for the race for two-year-olds.

• Photo 35: At the starting line, in the grand Stuart-Smith tradition, Paul and Rupert are at the very front.

• Photo 36:  Nearing the finish line are Paul and Rupert.  Paul's post-race analysis: "We've got to work on the start."  Yeah, but please don't go out too fast!