NYRR Joe Kleinerman 10K - Event Gallery

Conditions were better than expected for this final scoring race on the NYRR calendar: Threats of snow, gales, and sub-freezing temperatures were unfounded, and 4,333 runners completed just over a full lap of the Central Park loop drive in a fairly calm 36 degrees.

Strength, flexibility, balance…and next comes the endurance part.	Races can be as much about friendship as about competition.	These top local team members don’t look too nervous on the starting line…	…but they’re concentrating now as the horn sounds to start the race.
This position is extremely difficult to maintain while racing.	Headgear and covered limbs were near-ubiquitous.	The pack isn’t slow: More than 3,000 runners broke the one-hour mark…	…and most of them thoroughly enjoyed doing it.
Worku Beyi of the Westchester Track Club won the men’s race in a first-class time of 29:34.	Beyi’s teammate Aziza Aliyu won the women’s race in 32:56; only 11 men ran faster.	Six miles in the cold? No worries, says Lora Wang-Conway of Minneola, NY.	Cold hands, warm head? Jennifer Wallach isn’t concerned.
Alexis Robie of Brooklyn exhibits excellent running form.	Mikhail Barenboym of Cliffside Park, NJ, cruises the final half-mile.	Another race in the books: Lee Malecki of Woodside, NY, crosses the timing mat at the finish.	The gloves are off, says Parankush Somraj of Franklin Park, NJ.
Two, please: Lino Castro of Sunnyside, NY, is a two-fisted drinker…	…but we assume that Francisca Velazquez of the Bronx plans to give one bagel to her friend.	Arabella Powell of Jackson Heights, NY, is clearly in good company.	“Meet us at the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run!”