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Thursday, December 07, 2006

HARRA's Helm and Armenteros in Chronicle's Life Section

I haven't seen the black-and-white "print" edition being here in Vancouver; however, I saw the online story, "Dressing up for a long run," by Roberta MacInnis, on chron.com (in the Life section) with pictures of HARRA president Anna Sumrall Helm and Luis Armenteros.
I wondered three things though about Anna's picture and they were:

1.) Edwin: Did she look that fast out on the 25K course?
2.) Isn't she headed the wrong way in the picture? (Don't we go across the bridge in the other direction during the Marathon?)
3.) Did they get the picture in just one take?

Nonetheless, Anna is the most photogenic of anyone on the HARRA Board.

4 Comments:

Anonymous said...: 1. Yep, she looked that fast on the 25K course, the 10-miler and the half. She passed me in all three. She's an awesome runner.
2. I was wondering about the photographer, Smiley Pool. I thought he'd gone to the Dallas Morning News a while back, but I read on the Chronicle website that he's been back since Oct. I wondered about which way she was running. If she'd run the wrong direction a little more often, maybe I could finish ahead of her. geez....

I don't know everyone on the HARRA board, but she's definitely more photogenice than you Jon.

FYI- The black and white "print" edition was not BW. The pic of her and the one of Luis Armenteros on E2 were in color.; 5:25 PM
WalkSports.com said...: Edwin,

The back side of a horse's .. well you know the line .. would be more photogenic than me. :)

The "black-and-white" I was trying to refer to was the entire paper.

Jon; 5:36 PM
Sarah said...: Hey! Most photogenic of the HARRA Board? I resent that!

;); 9:08 PM
WalkSports.com said...: Sarah,

You are the most photohappy of the HARRA Board. :) Did I save myself there? At all? ;)

Jon; 9:46 PM