Thursday will be my anniversary of one year as “a runner.”
I’ve logged 1000 miles, 5 half marathons, a bunch of 10k’s and one full Marathon (and one toenail). Here are some recent images from the Brooklyn Half Marathon-thank you to Emmet for loaning me his GRD2-only a little gatorade on it…It was a big ol PB-(that’s runner speak for Personal BEST) time of 1:43:58-carving a FAT 7 minutes off my previous best! Also forgot to post two weeks back about a new 10K time of 48:04 in the wonderfully named Healthy Kidney 10k in Central Park. Can’t wait for the Feeling Great Gall Bladder and Kidney Stone 5 miler…passing that one is a real relief-yuk-yuk.
That’s the sports, in other news-this week is the scene of high drama-the New York City Marathon Lottery drawing is wednesday-they notify you thursday. About 5600 of 57000 people got in last year, 1 in 10. You will hear odd noises from office cubicles city wide guaranteed-the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat I am sure. Check this space Thursday, I’m not getting my hopes up, it was an outside chance this year, and I am guaranteed next year. Perhaps it is Philadelphia Freedom I will be hearing, not New York, New York?
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So the question-Will Photography ever make a comeback on this blog…stay tuned…
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Thanks for the compliments! I’ve developed a “slow down” method, also a sense of where in the stride there is the least motion. Very occasionally I’ll stop, but I feel like I’m cheating the run. I’m using the yashica t4, it’s old and the autofocus doesn’t always work, so I often look down at the counter (which is a half-broken LCD, so 9 and 4 are the same) to see if a shot was even taken. I started using the chrome because at I bought kodak 400 “elite chrome” on ebay to see what it was like, by elite they mean terrible, so part of running photos was to burn through the film.
I’ve considered getting a digital for these photos, but I think there would be much more draw to stop and see what the photo looks like and take a few more frames to ‘get it right’ – the lack of good digital p/s is something that extends beyond running
– but I need one that has a screen off mode. The ricohs are probably the best option, but a fixed lens would be better.
Last year I ran the marathon and I did not bring the camera – I had a water bottle and and ipod, the camera seemed like having too much stuff and there was a sense that I wasn’t taking the marathon seriously if I was taking photos. I think I might bring it this year. I run a lot of the same areas the marathon takes place in San Francisco, like I said on your blog, it’s strange how adding all the other runners, the people on the sidelines (love that reference – the fusco marathon!!) and the race stuff (water stops, signs, etc) changes the place.
thanks again for the blog, besides the running angle, it’s one of the more interesting photo-related blogs I follow…
Wayne
Wow I like that shameless self plug at the end.
Wow, the green person would make me think I was hallucinating! I have a set of running photos. What’s interesting (and your photos capture this) is the way solitary training running is so much different than race day/event running.
yeah no hotdogs afterwards!
great set-rocking the chrome-T4 combo. I did get another vintage (vintage?) point and shoot, I will post about it, the Minolta Talker…