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NYC Marathon Pictures from Lost-and-Found Gallery

Nov 17, 2005 08:56

This past weekend I scanned through over 28,000 pictures in the Lost-n-Found section to see if I could find any more pictures of myself from the marathon (my race report in a previous post). I did pick up one more of myself and got to play detective and matched up about 3 dozen other unidentified runners (based on clues like partial bib #s, names ( Read more... )

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plaidpooka November 20 2005, 16:54:29 UTC

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Hope to see you there!

fitfool November 21 2005, 02:44:35 UTC

Thanks for the invite! I'm going to refrain from joining right now just because I've got several food communities on my friendslist already and I prefer the recipes that tend to include pictures. Looks like you've got a pretty active group going though!

pecunium November 30 2005, 01:33:38 UTC

Some time ago I worked as a volunteer for the Big Sur Marathon. This guy went past us (I was doing traffic control at the 24 mile mark) looking less than good.

At the 26 mile mark was the darkly humored, "Phiddipides died here.

At the first aid station the guy we'd seen before was already dead, though they were trying to revive him.

Looking at him, he never should have started, as he was carrying at least 50 lbs too many.

TK

fitfool November 30 2005, 03:30:41 UTC

Ouch...I'm sorry to hear that. I'm glad to hear that deaths are still pretty rare in marathons these days. Thanks for volunteering -- it really gave me a boost thinking there were all these volunteers out on the course helping the runners out. Do you live out near Big Sur? I've heard it's a gorgeous race course.

pecunium November 30 2005, 16:22:31 UTC

I did (this was in '94).

It is a beautiful course. I don't know if they still let the roller-bladers go ahead of the runners, giving them a lot of fast downhill time on the roads (long, slight slopes) which they don't normally have the chance to do safely.

Marathons were never for me. Shorter runs, sure (I used to be able to do 2-miles in 11:30, but I am old and out of shape now, 14 minutes is about all I can manage), but get past ten and I don't wanna.

TK

fitfool December 1 2005, 03:44:51 UTC

Rollerbladers! Now that would be cool. You're fast! If I did 2 miles in under 16 minutes I'd be pretty happy.