NYC Olympic Trials Marathon

So yesterday I was up in NYC to watch the Olympic Marathon Trials. The course was 5 loops of a route in Central Park, so it was easy to see the runners a bunch of times. We setup just south of the reservoir, and for the first few laps we would run back and forth so we could catch them going up, then coming down.

Later in the race we setup and stayed on the down side since the pack had spread out and we decided that we would rather stay in one place and see the whole crowd go by.

Here are some pictures I took there.

Here's the excitement just before the first runner on the first lap. We were just before the 5k. None of the other early ones I took came out - it was too dark. Michael Wardian was the early leader with maybe 50m at that point. He faded quickly.



Some frontrunners early on. Meb is the leftmost, Hall is rightmost. It's hard to take sports shots with a small point and shoot :)



Another pack, still before 5k.



Abdi and Meb on the right. Hall on the left. I think this was around 9 or 14.



Ryan Hall coming through all alone at 24. The guy was flying!



Ritz going by at 24. Also did not look like he was working that hard. :)



Your Olympic team! We were maybe 20 yards from the podium, but couldn't see.