Valentine at BU

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Tom Derderian

Jonathan Hall, racing third leg in pursuit of a new club record in the 4x400 m. Photo by GreaterSnap

They said they came to break the club record. But it didn’t look good when David Kennedy, who had recently broken the club record for 400 m, developed a hamstring problem in his open 400 m. Coach Callum had a replacement from the “B” team. Warren Lane ran the first leg in revenge for what he thought was a poor 500 m race earlier in the day and handed off to Christian Tirella, then to Jon Hall who wore the GBTC shirt for the first time, and at last to Alex Engle (whose record Kennedy broke). They got the record by a whopping two seconds. 3:14:86.

Earlier in the day UMass grad, Dan Barry, in his second race in GBTC red, ran the mile in 4:09.85 in a meet that saw five sub-four minute miles. Barry placed 34th in a field of 244 milers. This meet was the place to be on the East Coast!

Ted Breen, also UMass grad, ran a personal best in the 3,000 m. Especially fun for GBTC fans was watching the battle in the mile among Haringa, Mendoza, and Lowe. Results are in the club performance list.

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Two Records Fall

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Tom Derderian

Kyle Linn MacQueen with the GBTC 3,000 m record on the line at Valentine. Photo by GreaterSnap

Devotia Moore said after smashing the GBTC record for 800 m on Friday that she’s been running so well ever since she started wearing the the club’s red uniform that she ought to staple it to herself. She blasted out with an opening 28s first lap to push to a National qualifier and 2012 US Olympic Trials “B” qualifier with her 2:04.64 winning time. That broke her club record of 2:07.09 recently set at the New Balance Invite in NYC on February 4. Jess Klett ran her personal best of 2:09.95. Kyle MacQueen took her turn later to smash the club record and personal best in the 3,000 m with a 9:32.50. Current club president Sara Donahue‘s record from 2009 of 9:48.20 fell.
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GBTC Weekend Action

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Tom Derderian

GBTC's Matt Haringa took the lead at half way in the Great Stew Chase to open the road racing season. photo by race director Roger Perham

GBTC athletes ran all over the Northeast this weekend. A cadre of guys traveled to Kingston, RI for the Torpey Invitational: Kyle Williams, David Kennedy, Sheldon Allen, Jimm Guerrier, Stephen Armstrong—their results are in the club performance list, while all total meet results are on the URI site. Nicholas Ricciardi went North to Dartmouth and Devotia Moore, 2:07.09, 800m, and Ayanna Alexander and Samyr Laine went West to NYC for the New Balance meet. Results, a clerical error prevented their GBTC affiliation from appearing in the results.

On the roads Matt Haringa and Sam Jurek took first and second in the Great Stew Chase 15 km road race in Lynn, MA. full results will be on coolrunning: here. Four GBTC runners joined Haringa and Jurek in the early lead pack, Matt Lyons and Mat Weissinger. Jason Dunklee followed at a respectful distance. At the turn around on the out and back course Haringa rolled away on the downhill to win by 36 seconds. Ken Ross won the 50+ division, one that he has recently joined, and Tom Derderian won the 60+. Joy Will, Jen Joyce, and Cynthia Hastings composed the women’s club representation. The next big road race for the club will be the first Grand Pix race—the ten miler in Amherst, on Feb 26th.

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Picture of the week

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Mark Tuttle

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GBTC’s Corey Fairfield clears the high jump at Sunday’s Greater Boston Track Club Invitational (photo by Zach Traina).

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Second Day At Terrier Shakes Up Record Books Again

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Tom Derderian

Record Breaking GBTC 4x400 team, Warren Lane, David Kennedy, Christian Tirella, Alex Engel, photo by GreaterSnap

The GBTC men’s 4×400 relay team broke the club record of 3:17.70 with a 3:16.75 in the 1/28/12 Terrier Classic Indoor track meet at Boston University. New team member Dan Barry ran the 3km in a club list leading 8:14.52. Barry is a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts. Ted Breen, also a UMass grad ran his best 5 km getting under 15 minutes for the first time. The GBTC women’s distance medley team won. Much more happened so see the complete results. They will be added to the team’s 2011-2012 performance list soon.

David Kennedy broke the club record at 400 meters with a 47.96.

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Two New Club records and a Win at Terrier

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Tom Derderian

Devotia Moore and Kyle Linn MacQueen each broke GBTC records in the Terrier Classic at Boston University on Friday. Moore smashed the old club record of 76.03 set last year by Jessica Klett with a 1:12.07 and first place.  Klett bettered her own 800 by about two seconds in yesterday’s meet with a 2:10.73 for third.  Kyle Linn MacQueen ran 4:52:11 mile breaking Allison McCabe’s 4:53.35 set last year.  Amelia Landberg lopped a gigantic 12 seconds off her mile personal best to finish with a 4:55.68. Full results are on the BU website, here.

The men compete today along with two GBTC Distance Medley teams.

Devotia Moore won the 500 at Terrier breaking the GBTC record, photo by GreaterSnap

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2012 GBTC Invitational Results

Posted on January 22, 2012 by kitwells

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See preliminary results and pictures from the 2012 GBTC Invitational indoor track meet at Harvard on January 22. We saw one meet record broken and four athletes qualify for nationals. We thank our generous meet sponsors for making this track meet possible:

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Record Broken: 4 qualify for Nats

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Tom Derderian

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The meet started with a song as GBTC member and Margaret Bradley Award winner Victoria Barnaby sang a beautiful rendition of the national anthem. She later placed third in the invitational mile with her personal best. Excellent performances continued the theme of the meet with David McCarthy of Providence College powering his way to a meet record in the 3000 meters running 7:56.76 to break the 1994 record held by Alan Culpepper of the University of Colorado at 8:01.2. Dan Serianni and Joan Dow qualified in the 3000 meter race walk for the indoor national championships to be held in Albuquerque, NM on Feb 26-27 as did Brian Hill of the Boston Athletic Association and Devotia Moore racing unattached in the 800 meters. Seventy-year-old Carl Wallin placed 9th in the open men’s weight throw and also won the masters shot put.

The host team’s athletes won many events: Dacia Taylor-Samuels, long jump; Jennifer Harlow, high jump; Kyle Williams, 60 meters dash; Amelia Landberg, 3000 meter Invitational; Jennifer Dagan, open 800; Tim Bayley, Invitational mile; Warren Lane, Invitational 200 meters; and Barry Phelps, Master’s mile.

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Victoria Barnaby awarded the 2012 Margaret Bradley award

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Mark Tuttle
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Victoria Barnaby (photo by Tom Derderian)

The Greater Boston Track Club is pleased to announce that Victoria Barnaby is the 2012 recipient of the annual Margaret Bradley award. Victoria Barnaby graduated from Boston University in 2009 with a BA in International Relations: Economics and Business and a minor in Spanish Literature. She currently works for PUMA International in Boston as the Digital Retail Marketing Manager.

Victoria began her running career participating in track and cross country for Newburyport High under Coach Donald Hennigar. In her freshman year of college she rowed for the Boston University women’s crew team, and later in 2006 she joined the Greater Boston Track Club. She has worked with GBTC coaches Tom Derderian and Dave Callum to experiment in a variety of events, including the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Since 2009 she has focused on improving her middle distance times and in 2011 ran the 3,000 steeplechase in a GBTC record time of 11:01. She recently completed her first cross-country season and this season plans to break 5 minutes for the mile and improve her steeplechase time even further.

Coach Tom Derderian says, “Victoria first came to us as a freshman at BU because the BU team would not accept her, since her high school mile time of 5:30 was not fast enough. She has since eclipsed that time and beaten many BU varsity runners on the track and in cross-country. Her success proves the adage ‘running well is the best revenge.’” For her award, Victoria has chosen to run the open 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2012 Penn Relays. This will be her first time competing at that track meet.

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Personal Bests and wins at Tufts Invitational # 1

Posted on January 14, 2012 by kitwells

The Tufts athletic department holds a series of invitational events mostly for their fellow DIII colleges but invited a few athletes from GBTC and some other clubs. Amelia Landberg and Kyle MacQueen of GBTC, seeing themselves as older and more experienced, decided to take the pace in the mile and put on a show for their hosts. Indeed they put on a show.

Amelia Landberg and Kyle MacQueen after their showy mile race. Photo by Coach Tom Derderian

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