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See the July issue of the club newsletter, the Wingfoot, by editor Michelle Lang Blouin.

The club has a new tiered system of sponsorship for club athletes.

We had a large turnout on May 30 to welcome Gretchen Chick back to Boston. Gretchen is this year's winner of the Margaret Bradley award. People shared wonderful memories of Margaret and spent the evening enjoying each other without having to fit chatting between intervals or bug bites. Please consider supporting the award by visiting the award page and clicking on the donation button at the bottom.

See the latest performance marks from the 2010 outdoor track season and the latest club records by Josh Seeherman.

See the final results of the 2010 GBTC Invitational held January 24 at the Gordon Indoor Track Facility on the Harvard University campus.

Gretchen Chick received the 2010 Margaret Bradley Award.

GBTC Blog

Here are the latest entries from the GBTC blog giving GBTC racing, results, and photos often posted on the day of the event by a team of club reporters.  You can also read about prior club events and news.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Women Still Tops in Grand Prix: Stowe, VT

Marybeth Baxter led the GBTC women's team.
photo by GreaterSnap

Marybeth Baxter in her first race in a GBTC uniform lead the team to third place in the USATF Grand Prix Stowe, VT 8 miler to keep the team at the top of the 2010 GP series. Baxter placed 4th among all the women. Another new member, Laura Johnson, placed third for the team. Jen Lee, hot off the 10,000m and relays at USATF Club Nationals in San Francisco last weekend could not resist the race and placed 4th for the team. Alyssa Brigham, enjoying a weekend with her GBTC teammates, placed 5th. Kyle Linn MacQueen took second for the team but only after giving the old coach fits by running off the pace of the team leaders and looking very tired at five miles. Looks may be deceiving as she zoomed through the last three miles to move up to 2nd. In a tightly fought race, the top three teams were separated by a mere 43 seconds.

In the men's race, team leader of the day, Dan T. Smith, looked terrific as he took 6th overall. Ionnis Papadopoulos, running his last race in America (for a while) before returning to Greece, ran second. Matt Haringa hit a bad patch after 5 miles and lost precious time as did David Bedoya to his allergy/asthma problem. Max Hock fortunately stepped up for fourth for the team. The team lost a position in the GP standings and is now tied with Whirlaway for third with the Boston Athletic Association leading and Central Mass Striders in second.

This was the largest team GBTC has ever taken to the Stowe race, with 23 runners representing the team.

Full results here. GBTC teams below.

3. GBTC
50:49 51:11 51:20 ( 51:57) ( 52:05) = 2:33:20
MARYBETH BAXTER, KYLE LINN MACQUEEN, LAURA JOHNSON, JENNIFER LEE,
ALYSSA BRIGHAM
4. GBTC
42:15 43:21 43:38 44:14 44:25 ( 44:44) ( 45:18) = 3:37:53
DAN SMITH, IOANNIS PAPADOPOULOS, MATTHEW HARINGA, MAX HOCK, DAVID
BEDOYA, EDWARD BREEN, RYAN ASCHBRENNER

The next Grand Prix race will be the Bridge of Flowers 10 km on August 14th in Shelburne Falls, MA

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posted by Tom Derderian at 9:50 AM

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Team leaves for USATF Club Nationals

Last year our women's team won the team championship at USATF Club Nationals and overall the combined GBTC squad placed second. A rather smaller set of GBTC track and field athletes, including hurdlers, throwers, jumpers and runners, head to San Francisco for the 2010 edition of the club championships this weekend. Full roster below.


Women's GBTC team roster
Jen Lee, 10,000, 800, 5000m
Jess Klett 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles
Jen Gardynski, Steeplechase, 1500
Victoria Barnaby, Steeplechase, 1500
Tiera Fletcher, high jump, 400m, 200m
Casey Taylor, long jump, triple jump, 100m
Ayanna Alexander, triple jump
Lisa Wilson, shot put, discus, hammer
Stacy Connor, shot put, discus, hammer
Deanna Clark, 800

GBTC men's roster
Francis Shen 100m, 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles
Alexander Engle, 200, 400m
Christian Tirella, 200m, 400m, high jump
Kobie Fuller, 400m
Ioannis Papadopoulos, 10,000
Hector Cotto, 110 hurdles
David Cahill, 400 hurdles, steeplechase, javelin,

relays, almost everyone in 4x100, 4x400, sprint medley, 4x800

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posted by Tom Derderian at 8:48 AM

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

GBTC places 2nd team at Mt. Washington

Tara Wommack and Ian Lambe head towards the 22% Wall at the top of Mt. Washington
Photo by Christy Bonstelle

For the first time in recent memory, GBTC fielded a team at the Mt. Washington Road Race. Conditions were on the warm side at the base, and didn't seem to cool off much until the 5000 foot mark. A strategy of "go out slow and then back off" seemed like the best to follow, but proved frustratingly difficult to master. Matt Harringa ran perhaps the smartest race for the club, moving from 7th team place at the mid point to eventually challenge Andrew Wommack for 1st team position. Apparently a late surge by Andrew enabled him to get his chipped foot across the line ahead of Matt's - both were given the same time. Further back in the pack, GBTC president Bruce Davie swapped places with Ryan Aschbrenner a few times as both went past the fast-starting Ted Breen, while Tomoaki Uchiki, having dropped Bruce and Ted 2 weeks earlier on the final hill at Pack Monadnock, left his charge just a little late this time, moving up to be the 5th team scorer.

Lifting more mass up the mountain than any other team member, Tim Stickney was rewarded as first Clydesdale runner.

On the ladies' side, Tara Wommack placed a creditable 21st, in a race she described as "harder than the marathon". Few team members would argue with her, and the post-race meal was remarkably free of discussion of tackling the race next year.

GBTC team results:
2. GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
1:13:39 1:13:39 1:15:04 1:15:14 1:15:24 (1:17:41) (1:18:00) = 6:13:00
Andrew Wommack, Matthew Haringa, Ryan Aschbrenner, Bruce Davie,
Tomoaki Uchiki, Tim Stickney, Edward Breen

Many photos here and here. Full results here. For more GBTC results click on "more".

Men
Place Time Pace  Name                 
1 1:00:22  7:57 Chris Siemers (Mizuno)
37 1:13:39  9:42 Andrew Wommack
38 1:13:39  9:42 Matthew Haringa
43 1:15:04  9:53 Ryan Aschbrenner
45 1:15:14  9:54 Bruce Davie
46 1:15:24  9:56 Tomoaki Uchiki
58 1:17:41 10:14 Tim Stickney
60 1:18:00 10:16 Edward Breen
66 1:19:08 10:25 Robert Espinosa
69 1:19:32 10:28 Dan Hall
91 1:24:45 11:10 Thomas Young
94 1:25:03 11:12 John Blouin
115 1:27:25 11:31 Chris Lowe
121 1:28:30 11:39 Ian Lambe
131 1:29:53 11:50 Michael Guarascio
147 1:31:19 12:01 Dustin Barnes
217 1:39:32 13:06 Brian Beaulieu
282 1:46:26 14:01 Max White
466 2:01:56 16:03 Daniel Oberlander

Women
Place Time Pace  Name
1 1:08:21  9:00 Shewarge Amare (WSRR)
21 1:28:43 11:41 Tara Wommack
52 1:41:29 13:22 Scarlett Graham

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posted by DrBruceD at 8:23 AM

Ryan McCarthy kicks off the outdoor track season by competing in the javelin throw at Brown University's Springtime Invitational. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

William Feldman and Timothy Stickney run the final miles of the Boston Marathon together, finishing in 2:41. (Photo by Emily Raymond.)

Indu Conley runs in the 400 meter race at the Greater Boston Track Club Invitational. (Photo by Emily Raymond)

 GBTC's Brian Beaulieu runs as part of the winning team at the Topsfield Cross Country Festival on Sunday, October 4, 2009. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

Amelia Bishop helps the GBTC women to a strong finish at the Ollie 5-miler in South Boston. The women are leading the USATF-NE Grand Prix series. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

Sherita Williams finished second in the long jump and triple jump events at USATF Club Nationals in New York City, helping the women's team to a first-place finish. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

Part of the winning track team at New Englands smiles for Coach Tom. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

 Gretchen Chick finished eighth place at the USATF-NE Rhody 5K Championships. GBTC placed two other women in the top ten, giving them second place at this race and the lead in the Grand Prix series. (Photo by Tom Derderian.)

 Keep watching this space for more "Pictures of the Week."

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