Garbage can post NYRRC Joe Kleinerman 10 km race–carbo loading for squirrels.Some would say the perks of New York Road Runners club races include:
- well organized
- nice speeches by celebrities (Joan Rivers was last week, doing the same “is there a single jewish doctor in the crowd”) speech she did last year
- lots of porta potties
- the predictability of slow people lining up at five mile pace marker only to be bulldozed by faster people who are in danger of crashing into them from behind
- volunteers telling people to stay to the left so anyone else who happens to want to be in central park during a race has a tiny path carved for them
Having done many NYRRC races though, I have other reasons for loving these races:
- stocking up on french toast bagels ( I don’t know where they buy them, but french toast flavoured bagels are strangely delicious) at the finish line.
- giving said french toast bagels to the homeless man on the subway post race. They never really want food-they want money, but…..today the guy I gave one too was decidedly unhappy with my donation–at least, judging by the yelling at me
- snow day races–when they cancel the chip timing and make it a fun race.
- having a bath afterwards
