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The First Lady
CENTRAL PARK WEST & W72nD STREET
(1 MILE INTO THE RUN)
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01: This is the race leader at this time.
The run starts from the Hudson River down 72nd Street. From
this photo, which looks all the way down 72nd Street, there is
no sign of the next person.
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02: Some minutes later, the third runner came by
and it's a woman! Stefani Jackenthal.
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03: The third female is Shelley Farmer.
MID-RACE REPORT FROM TOBY TANSER:
"Shelley Farmer was seen in good spirits in the NYCTri,
though I think Stefani Jackenthal was in front. Audrey
Kingsley was running in the opposite direction to cheer on the
run (and I was under a tree dodging rain bullets), and Craig
Chilton was a long, long way back - though Audrey said that
was something to do with wavy starts - the mind boggles."
DANIEL WEBSTER STATUE (West Drive
& 72nd Street; 200m left in race)
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11: The race leader is Stefani Jackenthal,
with no one in sight. A few minutes later, a couple of joggers
went by and the woman was heard to say to the man, "Did you
see that? The race leader was a woman! ALRIGHT!"
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12: A left turn at 72nd Street and it's a straight
sprint to the finish line in the bandshell area. Although
Stefani was the first to cross the finish line, it does not mean
that she was the fastest finisher because the triathletes were
started in waves. However, just last month, Stefani finished
first overall, male/female, in an 8K road race.
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13: A few moments later came the third female finisher,
Shelley Farmer.
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14: A left turn for Shelley Farmer too.
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15: Ross Galitsky in that white NYU triathlon
shirt.
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16: Ross Galitksy flashes by his personal
cheering squad.
FINISH AREA
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17: Is that a smile or a grimace from Shelley
Farmer?
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18: Shelley Farmer and a friend who is not
a member of the Central Park Track Club. Why not!?
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19: Shelley Farmer and another friend, this
one having the excuse of being a resident of California for not
being a member of the Central Park Track Club.
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20: Stefani Jackenthal and the spoils of
war. On the next day, this paragraph appeared in the New
York Times: Stefani Jackenthal, a 35-year-old freelance
sportswriter from Manhattan, finished first in the open competition
with a time of 2:06:04. "It was so much fun that it was in
my backyard," she said, adding with a laugh that she "felt
naked" running down the middle of 72nd Street in her electric
blue bathing suit.
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60: Olivier Baillet
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61: Bodil Arlander and Stefani Jackenthal
At this point, the raindrops began to fall.
Now, as Tyronne Culpepper will be the first to tell you,
our prima donna website photographer will bail out at the
first sign of rain (all in the name of protecting the camera equipment,
of course). So nobody else got any photos. The only
exception was that he did get a photo of Craig
Chilton's back at East 66th Street on the way out of the
park.
(photo credit: Bola Awofeso)
SWIM AREA (WEST 79th STREET)
T1 (WEST 72nd STREET)
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47: The bike ... oh, how exciting!? If only
we could figure out who is who?
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48: G'mo Rojas, in the red/blue/white helmut.
T2 (WEST 72nd STREET)
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