Saturday morning, August 22, thousands of runners laced up before sunrise for the NYRR Grete's Great Gallop 10K, a members-only race on the exact Central Park loop where Grete Waitz built part of her legend. The gallery from this year's race is live now.
A big field on a historic loop
This year's race pulled 8,517 finishers, 4,605 men, 3,874 women and 38 nonbinary runners, all racing a full counter-clockwise lap of the Ted Corbitt Loop starting near East 69th Street. That is a lot of people who spent months training for one Saturday morning, and most of them will never see a photo of themselves crossing that finish line unless they go looking for it.
See yourself in the gallery
The full Grete's Great Gallop 10K photo album is up now, shot along the course and at the finish. If you ran Saturday, search the gallery for your bib number or the stretch of the course where you remember pushing hardest, Harlem Hill, the Three Sisters, Cat Hill, or the final turn onto the 72nd Street Transverse, and find your moment.
Why this course photographs differently
The Ted Corbitt Loop is one of the more demanding 6.2 miles in the city, three named hills packed into a single lap, which means the field spreads out and slows down in predictable, photogenic places. A runner cresting Harlem Hill or grinding through the Three Sisters looks nothing like a runner cruising a flat opening mile, and that is exactly the kind of frame worth finding yourself in.
Sharing and saving your photo
Every photo in the gallery is watermarked until you claim it, and once you do, it is yours to keep, print or share however you want. Browse more race galleries from around the city if Grete's Gallop was not your first NYRR race this year, and if you are the one who was on the other side of the camera Saturday, create a free account and start uploading your own race day sets.
One small step
Go find your photo in the Grete's Great Gallop 10K album before the memory of Saturday's early alarm fades. It is already up, and it is already yours.
