dec. 22nd 1242pm bryant park
ofcourse the organizer has to show up late, but i feel i made a good entrance in my santa outfit. no one got to ice skate because they did not bring any, and if they did the line was insane. 23 people along with the cops showed up to race. i had to make the start a moving one, so instead of starting from bryant park, we rolled down 42 to 5th to 39th and started on 39th and 6th avenue. a little bit of confusion at the begining because the riders had to get there manifest at the main area inside grand central terminal. race got started, riders were of and i went to port authority bus terminal to check on the CP worker. as we were chatting, felipe dan and raf showed up with bikes on there shoulders running through crowded port authority station. 15 minutes later i went home, dropped the donated toys and got the prizes. i headed over to lake side and waited for the finish.
KING rolled around the corner of E 10 st 1st, followed by dan C. and raf negron. both were in the lead until they made a routing error by taking the FDR from 106 down to chrystie and canal st.
CP - bryant park
grand central station - get manifest !
toys r us - 44 +bway
FAO - 58th + 5th
Port Authority - 41 @ 8th avenue
canal + chrystie
lasker rink @ 107 inside central park
lakeside lounge 162 ave B (@ 10 st)
thanks to all the checkpoint people who voluuntered to make this race happen. i donated all the toys to bellevue hospital @ 462 1st avenue. on monday (posting pictures soon)
1. felipe “king” 1:03:00
2. jersey dan 1:03:34
3. rafael negron 1:04:10
4. dave trimble ( dave august) 1:05:32
5. cooper 1:08:00
6. victor 1:09:10
7. jack crank
kennedy red team leader - lost manifest/ DQ
8. andras
9. jason - baltimore (1st OOT)
10. izumi
11. andrew (red)
12. kai
13. fernando
14. heather (1st and only girl who had enough xmas spirit to race)
15. amadeo
16. egan (1st race ?)
no order …. lost the order these guys came in.
dillon - DQ (never finished)
cj
ilia- dc
greg - dc
guess who - thanks for the pictures
craig - philly
here are some pictures courtesy of bill …
jason(1st OOT), felipe (1st overall) bag from crumpler, zoo york gear and a kid robot hoodie, crihs
dan c (2nd) got a sweet manhattan portage bag courtesy of squid from cycle hawk
raf negron (3rd) bag from crumpler
heather (14 overall & 1st girl) schwag* from continuum cycles
also jeff from continuum cycles donated a kids bike.
thanks to the CP people - tone, bill, alex, mike, dylan n julie, jose m (who ddnt know he was doing a checkpoint until felipe yelled at him) lol.
speaking of jose, here are some pictures he took. you can also go to his page and check out the rest ….
http://negativo.org/gallery/Toys%20For%20Tots/
thanks for coming out