Joe Kleinerman 10K - Men's Gallery[Results] [Women's Gallery]
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 It was 36 degrees at race time, but most of the front-packers wore shorts. Conditions would prove conducive to fast times. |
 These men are heading out at sub-5:00-per-mile pace. ChampionChip technology gives accurate times to the thousands of runners who wait to cross the start line. |
 The blue-and-white of the Westchester Track Club (WTC) is familiar at the front of New York running events. Abiyot Endale set the pace at the mile mark. |
 With less than a mile to go, the lead pack had been reduced to three. Girma Tolla of WTC (in blue) and Alemu Dagne have one step on Anthony Famiglietti of adidas. |
 “Fam” is a 2004 U.S. Olympian at the 3000-meter steeplechase—and he also won the 2007 USA 8K Championships in Central Park. |
 With a mere 30 meters left in the race, Tolla still led—but Famiglietti threw down a final move. |
 Fam passed Tolla at the last instant and won in an excellent 29:17—in sweatpants! |
 Paul Thompson, 41, of Warren Street (WS), won the masters competition with a world-class 31:50, which gave him fifth place overall. He does all his training by running home from work. |
 Michael Cassidy, 22, led his Greater New York Racing Team (GNY) to a second-place finish among open men’s teams with his seventh-place 32:17. |
 John Roberts led the winning Nike Central Park Track Club (CPTC) open men’s team with a personal-best 32:31 for eighth place. Jorge Pardo of Urban Athletics (UATH) ran 32:51 to take 11th and lead his team, and William Hoyne of Syracuse, NY, took 12th in 32:51. |
 Felipe Garcia of West Side Runners (WSX) was ninth in 32:36; his team held on to claim the 2007 open men’s championship. |
 Birgir Ohlsson of CPTC is a former 1:47 800-meter runner. He managed a 33:05 for 18th place. Taylor Delhagen of the Brooklyn Road Runners Club was 13th in 32:22. |
 Mike Guastella (WS) was 23rd in 33:23; Piotr Karasiewicz, 45, and Jacek Boral of the Polish Runners Club were 15th (32:57) and 17th (33:03); Dan Treglia, 24, of GNY led the group in 14th (32:53). |
 Roberto Puente (WSX) looks very relaxed on the way to a 24th-place finish in 33:25. |
 Jay Barry (39th, 34:34) and Andrew Sutherland (40th, 34:35) were the 11th and 12th finishers on CPTC’s remarkably deep winning team. |
 Stephane Bois (WS), 42, an ex-800-meter specialist from France, was 49th overall and third in the 40-44 age group. |
 Christopher Stewart of UATH followed up a marathon on the previous weekend with a 54th-place finish here in 35:14. |
 Matthew Patrick of the New York Harriers doesn’t seem troubled by the 5:43 pace that he ran to finish 65th overall in 35:31. |
 Alan Ruben, 50 (CPTC), won the 50-54 division with his 35:21. Alfonso Polania, 45, was seventh in the 45-49 division; his WSX team won the yearly championship in the men’s masters category. Matthew Kmetz of GNY ran 36:27. |
 Hellgate Road Runners teammates Kevin Starkes (left) and Andrei Volik worked together; they ran 36:27 and 36:28, respectively. |
 Bob Hermesch, 57, ran 41:18 to take fourth in his age group; his Taconic 50-to-59-division team finished third in this race but won the yearly competition. |
 Longtime race official Phil Greenwald, 52, ran 52:42. He did not give the pre-race instructions and then blow the starting horn before jumping into the race himself, as he has been known to do. |
 Front Runners New York have wrapped up another successful season—eighth place here among open men’s teams—which means another stellar Club Night dance performance. |
 The Hoboken Harriers brought 19 competitors to this event—not an easy task from out of state—and raised a hot-chocolate toast to their 11th-place (open men) and 19th-place (open women) finishes. |
