NYRR Joe Kleinerman 10K - Much, Much More

What kind of crowd would you expect to show up to watch a road race in 30 degrees with the wind chill making it feel like 21? How about an uninterrupted wall of cheering fans around the full six-mile loop in Central Park? That's the kind of support that greeted the 4,647 runners who showed up for the first really cold race of the winter, the Joe Kleinerman 10K, on December 5.

In conditions like these, fans and volunteers exhibit endurance worthy of marathoners. The runners depend on them, and they weren't disappointed. Watching wasn't easy—feet froze and teeth chattered—but the NYC running community's strength held out: For a solid hour, racers were exhorted to keep it up, to hang on, and to finish hard down the East Drive and into the finish chute on the 102nd Street Transverse. And they did.
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