Marathoner

Bear with me here.  I got up at 0430 and caught the 0535  Long Island Railroad (LIRR) to Penn Station.  On the LIRR, marathoners.  In Penn, I caught the #1 subway to the Staten Island Ferry (SIF);  at 0615, it was standing room only on the subway, worse than on a work day rush hour except all marathoners.  These are the stairs leading up to the SIF, all marathoners almost.

Here’s from the roof of the ferry terminal on Staten Island looking south.  See that line of people?

They’re all waiting for a shuttle bus ride (approx 3 miles) to the starting line.

I was there to watch a particular marathoner, so I made my way to a pier.   Double click on these fotos to enlarge them.  The FDNY water display was intended for all 48,001 marathoners, including my favorite, who has the distinction of  being accommodated to pass UNDER the bridge rather than over it.

Recognize her?

Escorted along the end of this leg of her ongoing marathon by Marjorie B. and Robert E. McAllister, it’s

you guessed it, the only contestant to negotiate the sixth boro, Alice Oldendorff.   If you’re new to this blog, type Alice into the upper left search window and you’ll see the particulars between Alice and me.

I recall seeing Alice back in 2005, and since then she’s deliver several million tons of Canadian maritime aggregates into the port, the stuff you need to build and maintain a metropolis.   She’s an indefatigable marathoner.

What a day for her to arrive.

All fotos and fabricated view of reality by Will Van Dorp.

For NY Daily News pics of the race, click here.