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Jim Gerweck Goes to 5th Avenue Mile

September 22, 2012

Editor-at-Large for Running Times, Jim Gerweck, wrote an exclusive article for BBTM's Mile wire on the 5th Avenue Mile on Saturday, September 22, 2012.  Below are a couple of his post-race photographs sporting the BBTM "I AM THE MILE" t-shirt on the famed streets of New York City. 

Jim with 2011 race champion and legend Bernard Lagat.


Jim with Allan Steinfeld, former NYRR President & CEO
 

From left to right: Jim, legend Ray Flynn (BBTM Support Team Member), Michelle Oltman Gottfried and Mary Benson

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