The Central Park Track Club holds workouts twice a week around the year.  During the summer months, we hold outdoor workouts at the East River Park track located at East 6th Street right by East River.  This set of photos was taken on June 21st, 2000 and shows a typical set of activities.

• Photo 16: East River Park contains not only a tartan track for running, but it is apparently also the site for rodeos.  Here vaquero Raphael Devalle demonstrates his riding form.
• Photo 17:  Before the workout begins, all we see is a couple of serious-looking (or bored-looking?) people like David Birchfield and Alex Peterhansl waiting for things to move along.  Meanwhile, some other people are very busy dodging our photographer ...
• Photo 18:  This is also the time for transacting business, as our club president John Kenney goes over the team uniform issues with Toby Tanser.
• Photo 19:  The workout is also the time when the coach goes over the race results from the previous weekend.  Here, Shula Sarner looks a bit embarrassed by the effusive praise poured upon her for leading our Open Women's team to a first- place finish in the Fight Against Prostate Cancer 5K in the park.
• Photo 20:  What is Kyra Weiss thinking?  "When I grow up, I want to be just like Shula Sarner ... ?"
• Photo 21:  As a reminder, these workouts are made infinitely smoother by our volunteer timers.  On this day, the timer was Craig Chilton, who is a timer as well as cheerleader.
• Photo 22:  While the general idea is to follow the pacing instructions, there is a tendency for people to get progressively faster, especially on the final set.  On this very last of eight 600m's, Shula Sarner could no longer hold back.
• Photo 23:  Running is about going one point to another point in the quickest possible time (or, ideally, in the case of a workout, in a pre-determined time), and the timer is present precisely to give you the time.  In this photo of Alex Peterhansl, Kiet Vo, Sid Howard, David Birchfield, Margaret Schotte, Mark Gumbiner, Devon Sargent and Margaret Angell, at least half of them are marching to their own watch.
• Photo 24:  Getting a fast time means getting a quick start.  In this photo, we see Peter Hemsher, Brian Barry, Blair Boyer, Jackie Cortes, Mary Rosado and J.R. Mojica starting off with a steep forward body lean to build up their momentum.  Again, three of these six have reached for their own watches.
• Photo 25:  One of the tenets of pack running is shared leading, as people alternate to take the lead between sets.  Here, this group is led by Jackie Cortes and J.R. Mojica.
• Photo 26:  This other group is led by Margaret Angell, Margaret Schotte and Kiet Vo, reined in by Sid Howard.
• Photo 27: In the sprinters' group, the thundering leaders were Eric Harvey and Craig Plummer.  People like that should make you extra-alert on the track because you don't want to be run over by those two freight trains.
• Photo 28:  These outdoor track workouts take place between April and October.  Conditions, both in terms of weather and light, vary by the time of year.  Now the longest day of the year occurs around this particular day, but still the sun is no longer high up by this time of the evening.  This led someone to ask, "What is this dark glasses thing with Toby Tanser and Isaya Okwiya?"  Could it be that it is a lot brighter up there when you are so tall ... ?
• Photo 29:  In between the sets of fast sprinter are the recovery jogs.  But, as Sid Howard reminds us all the time, "Keep the jog ALIVE!"  After all, we are not the Central Park Walking Club.
• Photo 30:  We love to see young people being introduced to this sport.  Here, though, Eden Weiss is not explaining the workout (see the poster behind them) to his daughter Kyra Weiss, but pointing to ... what?  NOT the dumpster!?