Sunday morning early, my husband and I peeked outside our terrace and saw the lead wheelchair racers from the 2006 NYC Marathon. Only minutes before we had seen them on TV racing over the Queensboro Bridge. We went down to view from the corner of 68th and 1st Ave just in time to see the front runners for the women (I took a snapshot of Jelena Prokopcuka repeated as the New York City Marathon champion. According to the official Marathon website she is the sixth woman in the history of the race to achieve this feat). The race had 37, 954 finishers, the most ever. We even caught a peek at Lance Armstrong flying past us on 1st Avenue. (see if you can pin him out in my vid). We took a hike on over to Central Park to see the finish. While we couldn't get close enough to the finish line to see them cross, we hung out in the park just past Tavern on the Green, their final stop. Here's our day!
-alyson
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