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The New York City Cycling Championships
took place in the Wall Street area on August 4, 2002.
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01 This was a professional race with lots of spectators,
and therefore a good moment to be visible. Adam Manewell
is highly visible in the orange Central Park Track Club
t-shirt.
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02 Ross Galitskey and one of his wife's
cycling teammates. We don't know her name, but she said,
"Well, I've heard about you and your website ..."
and then declined to elaborate ...
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03 Not everyone is pleased to see us. In
fact, someone started screaming and yelling when he saw us ...
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04 Aubin Sullivan and Julie Denney,
with Sky Wells Willett now being pacified. In the
preceding photo, Sky was upset because Julie had the pacifier
in her own mouth.
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05 And where is dad Scott Willett?
He is in a swim race somewhere in the Hudson River, but Julie
is checking his progress via cellular phone.
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06 We were shown a photo of Aubin Sullivan
competing in a Connecticut cycling race. However,
Ross said, "You can take a picture while the peloton goes
by to show how fast she goes." Hmmm ... she's facing
the wrong direction!
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07 Self-appointed critic Ross Galitsky
asked, "Aubin, how fast were you going here? Two
miles an hour?" In saying so, Ross is merely paying
back on our behalf, because we have previously complained about
Aubin trailing us on bike during a road workout for the purpose
of telling us how fast slow we were running
("two miles per hour" were the exact words).
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08 Criticism is not a monopoly, as we critique
the holder of the photo: (1) the thumb should always be at the
corner instead of in the middle to be least intrusive; (2) if
you wish to use a white envelop as background, you should always
make sure that the photo is lined up in parallel with the envelop.
This excuse was offered: "I am NOT a professional photo
holder!"
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09 Self-appointed food critic Ross Galitsky:
"Yes, we went to the Water Street Gourmet before the race.
The bagel was excellent. I promise that I will write a
food review for you." In our long experience, everyone
who promises to write a food review is a liar.
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10: Ross Galistsky continues: "In
spite of what you are thinking, I really did not patronise the
establishment next door. Really. Trust me."
Really?
And then there was the matter of a
cycling race, of which the photos were taken:
Given that we know zilch about cycling
races, we rely on our self-appointed expert Ross Galitsky
for this race analysis: "There are seven teams in the
race. At first, various people will try to break away.
If at some point, a breakaway consists of people from each team,
then the rest of the cyclists will simply dial in for the day as
the winner will come from the breakaway pack. If a team is
not represented in the breakaway, they will give chase."
For a while, this seemed to be true as a breakaway of seven gained
a 1:25 advantage. Then there was an unrehearsed script change
as the main group chased down the breakaway group and the race came
down to a mass sprint. Of course, this is preferrably watched
on television with the air conditioning on maximum (it was one hundred
something degrees outside) and an icy beer in hand.
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