Marathon schon wieder vorbei

and the winner is...
women:Paula Radcliffe the blond on this foto-second Gete Wami( who won Berlin marathon) beside her running-
Stephan and I watched atHalfpoint in Queens before Queensboro Bridge-very quiet and near to the runners
at that stadium these two were so in advance that no other woman had a chance anymore...
men were very close together-not so exciting to watch

before Eliterunners the wheelchair division started: this grandma participated 25 times the marathon therefor her crown
then the rest of the pack run....hours after hours we could watch them never ending.....
big mood with very bad loud bands every 5 minutes from each other many spectators clapping hands and shouting
among the runners all nations mainly italians from our perspective
these are the last runners after more than 4 hours halfpoint-we were relieved that not more Germans in average were among them
please be aware of Empire State building and Chrysler in the background
at the end we met a young runner who was vounded and gave him a ride with the underground-before the run he had already many problems but he wanted so much to participate-did not work.