Great shot, Bob! Love the out of focus official in the foreground. How
long was your lens?
BTW, I was in Chicago yesterday, but no time for dawdling. Just
cleaning out my mother's house, which I sold last week.
Go Sox!
Paul
On Oct 9, 2005, at 11:53 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
After all this discussion about PUG vs PAW and PESO's, I'll waste some
bandwith with picture of what I did today. It was a great day for the
Chicago Marathon. A bunch of Kenyans won.
Here in the 12th mile, the eventual winner (#3) keeps an eye on the
field.
http://members.aol.com/rfsindg/marathon.jpg
#3 - Felix Limo set a new world record (?) of 2:07:02 and is $125,000
richer.
#15 - Benjamin Maiyo (just over the cyclist's helmet) was second at
2:07:09.
There were 40,000 runners in the race and some finished after 6 hours.
After the elite runners passed, the rest quickly filled the 6 lane
street from curb to curb. About 45 minutes into the race, I watched
the corner policeman turn a taxi away from trying to cross the course.
It was a pregnant woman in labor trying to reach her hospital. She
needed to go 3 miles north or 4 miles south to go around.
Regards, Bob S.
