The Spirit of the Marathon 

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BY Daily News Shout-Out!

Check out this interview I did with the NY Daily News! http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/running_dialogue/2010/11/photographer-toky-on-a-mission.html Thanks to Lauren Johnston for the feature!

Mar 9th

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The Spirit of the Long Beach Marathon

For those of you that don’t know who I am… I am a photographer who happened to run a marathon with his camera earlier this year to “document” the run. Little did I know that a lot of people would find my marathon photos and my comments amusing AND relate to them. Since then I’ve discovered that us crazy people who like running marathons, seem to have a lot of things...

Oct 19th

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My next stop is...

The next stop for my marathon photo essays is… Long Beach! I’m happy to share I will be running the Long Beach Marathon on October 17th! and creating a new photo essay. The Spirit of the Long Beach Marathon will be posted on October 19th! More details and goodies to come.

Sep 13th

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Thanks for the Shout-out! →

Thanks to Luis from the Muddy Runner blog for this shout-out! Check out his blog. Neat stuff.

Aug 19th

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Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who has visited, commented and e-mailed me about the Spirit of the San Francisco Marathon Photo essays! I am very grateful to all of you and excited to announce that because of the huge success that project has been, I am starting a website dedicated exclusively to the photo essays as well as other running goodies. Not only that, I’m already in touch with other marathons...

Aug 19th

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The Spirit of The San Francisco Marathon Photo...

4:54:04 AM. Self portrait @ hotel just before stepping out. As soon as you came out of the hotel you could see runners everywhere. It was an instant great feeling and it also eliminated the “I hope it wasn’t yesterday and slept through it” feel we sometimes get when we are excited about something. Since I was (luckily) staying at a hotel right in-front of the...

Aug 16th

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San Francisco Marathon (Getting there & Expo Photo...

Backstory: I’ve completed three Los Angeles Marathons and one Nike Human Race. On my last LA Marathon back in March, I decided to take my camera with me and do a photo essay. I posted it on my blog and tweeted about  it. Over the next few days my photo essay was seen by more than 6,000+ people (the Marathon had 26,000 runners) and was re-tweeted over and over again. The best part of it all was...

Aug 16th

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Shout out from LAMarathon.com

After the Spirit of the Los Angeles Marathon we got noticed and got a shout-out from the organizers of the LA Marathon!

Aug 16th

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The Spirit of the L.A. Marathon Photo Essay

25th Annual Los Angeles Marathon. Photo essay from a runner’s point of view. Arriving at Dodger Stadium at 6am Huge lines at the portable restrooms. Stood in line from 6:10 am to 7:20 am Elvis… or Elvises…. Corrals Waiting to start. Marathon delayed because people were still arriving past 7:20 am due to traffic Ready to start!!!! While it’s...

Aug 9th

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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go”

– T.S. Eliot

Aug 9th

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Twitter Peeps

Los Angeles Marathon Twitter San Francisco Marathon Twitter Long Beach Marathon Twitter Ray Gill Twitter Running in the USA Twitter Cool Running Twitter

Aug 2nd