10K RACE START

• Photo 01: Alan Ruben warns Erik Goetze, Paul Stuart-Smith and Toby Tanser, "I think that there is a camera pointing at us."

• Photo 02: Theo Spilka, Alan Ruben and Paul Stuart-Smith, with an interloper in between.

• Photo 03: Sarah Gross can't be that terrified of the camera?

• Photo 04: Paul Stuart-Smith says, "Watch me carefully today, because I am going to win a bunch of awards.  In fact, I am aiming to sweep the combined under-40-year-old category in the two-mile race."

• Photo 05: Toby Tanser wears an Icelandair singlet today.  That would have an important bearing on his bearing later.

• Photo 06:  The workout description for the Thursday workout included this paragraph: "The big race this week is the L'Oréal Twosome, hitherto and forever after known as the Trevira Twosome.  Question:  Will Alan Ruben be running the race with Gordon Bakoulis (see 1998 race)?  If so, will Nathan Klejman be able to take care of both Joey and Sammy?  Stay tuned for the next episode ..."  Indeed, Alan Ruben did not disappoint us.

• Photo 07:  David Blackstone came down today with his wife Lynn (where is she?).

• Photo 08:  Theo Spilka out for a run on a beautiful spring morning.

• Photo 09:  "Paging Audrey Kingsley ... paging Audrey Kingsley ... your partner is looking for you ..."  Everyone on the Audrey watch should note that she is wearing new Asics running shoes with the laces intact.  Let it be duly noted that Asics has received more (unpaid) publicity from our Audrey Kingsley than any of their elite athletes.  This endorsement should come in handy when she negotiates a contract with Asics.  P.S.  The orange jacket in the far background belongs to the Central Park Track Club video guy J.R. Mojica.

• Photo 11:  Finally, Audrey Kingsley locates her partner Erik Goetze.

• Photo 10:  Ramon Bermo says, "I'm a triathlete these days.  I only run to keep my NYU runners company."

10K RACE:  5.2 MILE MARK

• Photo 21:  Toby Tanser is ahead by a couple of minutes.  Here he is simulating an Icelandair flight.  Or else he could be collecting data for Tivon Jacobson to work on his theory of airfoil stability.  After Toby passed, we had a dilemma.  Should we cut across Sheep Meadow south and catch the finish, or do we wait for our other runners?  Since Toby was not likely to lose this race even if he stopped for a bagel or two, we stayed put.

• Photo 22:  After New York Flyer Todd Baldini passed (hey, you didn't think we would show a photo of him, did you?), the next one to come was Alan Ruben, less than two weeks after the Boston Marathon.

• Photo 23:  And right afterwards came Erik Goetze.

• Photo 24:  And right afterwards came Paul Stuart-Smith.  The shadows on the ground to the right belong to Betty Marolla, Frank Schneiger and Kai Michaelsen, who actually needed to be debriefed about the names of the 'new' guys ("Who is this Toby person?") but they were really impressed with the long string of orange singlets among the leaders.

10K RACE: 6.1 MILE MARK

• Photo 31:  By the time we got back to the west side, Toby Tanser had long landed his airflight.  But we caught Alan Ruben coming in third place overall.

• Photo 32:  Erik Goetze was in fourth place overall.

• Photo 33:  Paul Stuart-Smith was in fifth place overall.

• Photo 34:  And if we add Suso Montero's strong twelfth place overall finish, we would have had a strong men's team.  Unfortunately, there is no club team scoring in this race.

• Photo 35:  Tyronne Culpepper received the green light to sprint to the finish, as Bola Awofeso looks on.

• Photo 36:  Theo Spilka later said, "I was so glad to have people cheering for me out there."  So this thank-you note goes to everyone who were yelling until their voices turned hoarse.

• Photo 37:  Someone said, "Audrey Kingsley never wears orange anymore."  Well, we'll have to compensate somehow.

• Photo 38:  Roger Liberman came for a race in the park and a stroll with the family afterwards.

• Photo 39:  Here is the loudest cheering squad of the day: Stuart Calderwood, Stacy Creamer and Bola Awofeso.  The guy on the bike has an advantage over the others as he can cut across the park a lot faster.  He was generous to say to our web photographer, "Wanna hitch a ride?"

• Photo 40:  No one is permitted to leave before Sarah Gross arrives.

• Photo 41:  Being running coach means that Ramon Bermo has to teach endurance to run 10K's and also sprinting at the finish.

• Photo 42:  David Blackstone finishes.

• Photo 43:  Not everyone present ran the race.  Here is a cool-looking Richie Borrero in civilian clothes.

• Photo 44:  Here is what passes for humor to the Brits --- Alan Ruben's London Marathon t-shirt reads "Been there, Run (sic) It, Got the T-Shirt."  We are not amused.

10K AWARDS CEREMONY

• Photo 45:  Audrey Kingsley was surprised to find that her team was in first place for their age group.  She said, "It was all due to my partner (Erik Goetze)."  Methinks that she underestimates her own contribution.

• Photo 46:  Toby Tanser picks up his overall individual finisher's prizes.  On the whole, he might have just settled for another bagel instead (that is, on top of the seven that he had already eaten).

• Photo 47:  Alan Ruben has a busy day ahead.  First, he picks up the overall individual finisher's award for his wife Gordon Bakoulis.

• Photo 48:  Then Alan picks up the overall first couple's prizes.

• Photo 49:  This is the total loot after adding the first-place age-group couple's award.  Five trophies, five copies of the same Self magazine, five t-shirts, ...  Alan has a real problem now because his backpack was not large enough to hold everything.

• Photo 50:  Finally, after giving away some magazines and declining some trophies, Alan stuffed everything into his backpack.  He resets his stopwatch and asks, "Does anyone want to run back uptown with me?"  Notice how the crowd standing around him has suddenly vanished as soon as he spoke those simple words.  Rather than doing the death march with Alan, they preferred to follow the Social Director and walk (slowly) to Starbucks.

2 MILE RACE START

• Photo 51:  Frank Handelman showed up this morning after running in the Penn Relays last night.  Is that why he defers to Isaya Okwiya and his fresh legs?

• Photo 52:  Another just-in-time arrival from Stacy Creamer and Stuart Calderwood.

• Photo 53:  A photo of Stacy Creamer like this one is enough to give our web photographer delusions of being another Luca Trovato.  So does this website have the best running photos or what?  (Okay, even if your answer is no, then does this website have the most number of running photos at 3,200+ or what?)

• Photo 54:  Isaya Okwiya, Stuart Calderwood and Frank Handelman set their watches and get ready.  Even the traffic light is moving to yellow.

2 MILE FINISH

• Photo 61:  The course was a simple 1-1/4 lower loop, and Stuart Calderwood came around quickly.

• Photo 62:  Right behind came Isaya Okwiya, who said, "I was sucking air big time."

• Photo 63:  Frank Handelman keeps one step ahead of the female winner of the race.

• Photo 64:  Stacy Creamer in her final push, good enough to snatch third place right at the finish line.

2 MILE AWARDS CEREMONY

• Photo 71:  Jennifer Stockbridge points to Paul Stuart-Smith, the 'winner' of the second-place under-40-year-old couple team.

• Photo 72:  Oh, not so fast --- Paul Stuart-Smith is also the 'winner' of the first-place under-40-year-old couple team.  You see, Paul is a coach with New York Running Partners and his kids are the real winners today.

• Photo 73:  Stacy Creamer and Stuart Calderwood are the first combined 80-99 year-old-team.  They finished second overall, just behind a 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old girl, young enough to be their children. 

TOBY'S QUIZ PRIZE CEREMONY

• Photo 81:  On the side, Toby Tanser presents a box of orange PR bars to Ramon Bermo for solving his latest quiz.

• Photo 82:  What does our winner think?  Ramon said, "Hmmm ... in the future, just make sure you keep your quizzes on European topics.  I can handle that."  Shall we take it that this means Ramon has not yet found out what the combination on Henry Rono's briefcase in 1978-1981 was?