PRE-RACE ACTIVITIES

• Photo 01:  Michele Tagliati says, "Please take a photo of me with my friend Giorgio Perino."  He adds, "He is a New York Flyer, but he is an okay guy."  Okay, in the interest of achieving peace and harmony in our time, let's change that preceding sentence to "He's a New York Flyer and he is therefore an okay guy."
• Photo 02: Where is Sylvie Kimché going to?  A running race or a cross-country ski race?
• Photo 03: This is Valentine's Day, but Jim Olson is already preparing Sarah Gross for the Easter Egg Hunt.
• Photo 04: The photographer supposedly got photographed by Mary Olson.  We say 'supposedly' because it could have been anyone under that bundle of clothing, couldn't it?

3.05 MILES IN THE RACE

• Photo 11: Eric Aldrich was the team leader today.
• Photo 12: Michele Tagliati said, "As I got close to the finish line, this woman in front of me turned around, took a look at me, thought that I was attempting to pass her and put on a furious kick.  Actually, all I wanted to do is to make sure that I got my photo taken."  The person in the orange jacket in the background is Stacy Creamer (of course).
• Photo 13: Once again, Jim Olson showed up on the wrong side of the road and got only a partial photo.  For the purpose of clarification, the right side is defined as whichever side the photographer is on and it is the job of the runners to know.
• Photo 14: Sarah Gross looks way too happy for someone in a race.  She said, "I think I went out too fast, and I just jogged back in."  Perhaps this "jogger" was smiling because she knew that she bagged the first-place masters award.
• Photo 15: Diane Lebowitz said, "I must thank Gillian Horowitz for winning the race.  I was the fourth female 40-44, but I got a third-place award because she was in my age group."

AWARD CEREMONIES

• Photo 20: The numerologist Sylvie Kimché shows us her race bib number and says, "In French, this is known as a ménage à trois.  But please note that I did not ask for this number --- it was just assigned to me."
• Photo 21: There was a long sidebar when Diane Lebowitz went up to receive her age-group award.  It turns out that she was given the third-place team awards from the Frostbite 10 Miler.  Those awards were not picked up that day, and the penalty was that the team was moved from second-place to third-place on a recount.  The moral of the lesson: Grab your medals as quickly as possible before they change their minds.
• Photo 22: Sarah Gross goes up to receive her first-place age-group award, which comes with a bottle of wine from Best Cellar.
• Photo 23: Here is an analysis of Sarah Gross's loot --- there was a bar of Crunch chocolate, which she gave away because she doesn't eat them; there is an inscribed mug, which was not as good as the second-place plaque since she has dozens of mugs already ("... and they aren't sitting on my mantel!"); and nobody is going to take that bottle of wine away from her ...
• Photo 24: When Jim Olson went up to receive his 2nd place age group award, he was asked to stand by.  In the event that the age-group winner was not present, Jim would receive the winner's bottle of wine.
• Photo 25: Going, going, gone ... Jim gets the bottle!
• Photo 26: Bob Laufer said, "If I knew that I was going to get an award, I would have dressed better."  Actually, anything with orange is fine with us.
• Photo 27: Here is a non-runner type holding a non-winning raffle ticket.  Why was he even permitted to participate?  The NYRRC's Nancy Rowe explains, "Anyone who sat through the whole awards ceremony up to this moment dserves to get the chance!"
• Photo 28: And wouldn't you know it? ---  Sylvie Kimché won a raffle prize (wine + chocolate).  So maybe these raffles aren't fixed after all ...