pro wrestler who wasn't dressed in very much at all. Trust me, you'll easily pick out his photograph. Speaking of Superheros, there's one photograph in this batch of The Flash that looks a little bit out of focus. However, those of you who are up to date on your Superhero mythology would know that The Flash is incredibly fast. He's not out of focus in that shot, but rather I was incredibly lucky to catch him in action. I believe he was already on his 36th tour of the 42km course when I managed to get the photograph. Yes, you read that correctly. The mere thought of running 42km leaves me out of breath, yet these people all took off with large smiles on their 
faces. Speaking of smiles, I wasn't having much success getting any smiles or eye contact at all from my original position on the sidewalk of the bridge. So after the third wave of runners made their way past me, I decided to change my location and managed to slide into a spot on the road portion of the bridge where the local media had been recording and photographing the race. After the first few waves of runners, the media members began to slowly leave, and I was able to get a pretty good spot just before the runners make a turn and leave the bridge. Suddenly, I no longer had any problems getting people to wave at me, probably hoping to see their faces in the 
morning paper. I hope they won't be disappointed to find their mugs here on my page instead. After that, the biggest challenge I had was trying to move my fingers fast enough to make sure that the people who actually took the time to wave at me would be in focus. What I would try to do is take a quick look at the people who were at the front of each group when they would leave the starting line. If there were any interesting character, such as the Superheros or the girl who had created a little stick with a carrot dangling from in for a little cartoon style motivation, I tried to focus on them until they reached my area. After that, I would manually adjust 
the focus as I would quickly scan through the crowd of runners looking for anyone interesting, or someone who was waving. Which wasn't always easy. They were moving pretty fast, so often I'd have a question of seconds between seeing the runner and them having already gone by me. It was a fun little challenge, but it was a little frustrating as well as I ended up missing about as many runners as I ended up getting. The first photograph was taken at f/7.1, 1/500sec, ISO 400 at 200mm. The second photograph was taken at f/10, 1/250sec, ISO 400 at 70mm. The third photograph was taken at f/10, 1/160sec, ISO 400 at 135mm, the fourth photograph was taken at f/10, 1/400sec, ISO 400 at 70mm and the fifth photograph was taken at f/10, 1/320sec, ISO 400 at 70mm. Here are several more who ran past me today.
f/10, 1/200sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/10, 1/160sec, ISO 400 at 105mm
f/10, 1/320sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/10, 1/500sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/10, 1/250sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
f/10, 1/320sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/10, 1/400sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/10, 1/500sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/10,1/400sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/10, 1/250sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/10, 1/320sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/11, 1/400sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/11, 1/400sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/11, 1/400sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
f/11, 1/400sec, ISO 400 at 70mm
Recognize anybody? That was a large amount of runners. I wasn't sure that I would be able to get onto the bridge to take some photographs, but I'm happy that I made it up there. My respect to everyone who took part in the race, I was out of breath just climbing the stairs to get up to the bridge, I can't even imagine running another 42km's after that.
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