We arrived at our usual spot just after ten. We missed the Achilles/Wheelchair front runners but managed to catch pretty much everyone else. Parking was much easier this year, we only had to drag everything one block from 11th to Vernon.

This year we had seven people (Lisa, Lisa, Cori, Josh, Ben, Jodi and me). Trixie and Bailey joined us as well but are not quite tall enough to hand out Kleenex yet.

Coincidentally, the brand police don't need to come after me this year: we truly used Kleenex as Costco was out of their house brand tissues.

We managed to run through six cases of Kleenex (each had six boxes, so 36 boxes of Kleenex). The lunch napkins we had proved to be a complete dud...not surprising as who wants to rub sandpaper on their face after 14 miles.

These are a sampling of photos from my ING NYC Marathon 2006 set on Flickr.

There are more photos here: ING NYC Marathon 2006 set on Flickr.