Doshi Does Three States

GBTC's Megha Doshi started slowly in Kittery, ME in the Eastern Sates 20 miler. She picked up her pace and picked off runner after runner over the bridge into Portsmouth, NH, then along the winding ocean road where the stately mansions stare at the moods of the fickle North Atlantic. She flashed through Rye, NH where nobody could catch her as she whizzed past the garish amusements of Hampton Beach Casinos, trinket shops, salt water taffy demonstrations, sea food restaurents, lurid hotels, chintzy cottages, and water slides, she ran and on past the Great Boar's head and another bridge with a clear view of the Seabrook nuclear reactor and into Massachusetts where in Salisbury she waited twelve minutes for the next woman to finish. Doshi ran faster per mile than did the woman's winner of the concurrent half marathon. Doshi is ready to race at Boston along with GBTC's Emily Raymond, and Stu's 30 km winner Laura Hayden.

In this 20 miler GBTC's Kibrom Temelso, hot off his win in the 10 km in the Northeastern Spring Open meet yesterday, practiced his marathon pace in anticipation of the Boston Marathon. He ran gracefully demonstrating no ill effects from his 5:05 miles in the previous day's race. His Boston Marathon teammates, Woodward and Uchiki, show they are prepared for Boston.

This is a good race and an important preparation toward a good marathon. GBTC runners are ready.

Full results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Mar25_Easter_set1.shtml

2 KIBROM TEMESLO BOSTON MA        1:55:43  5:48
4 LUCAS WOODWARD SOMERVILLE MA    1:57:11  5:52
7 TOMOAKI UCHIKI JAMAICA PLAIN MA 2:05:19  6:16
14 MEGAH DOSHI   MEDFORD MA       2:10:27  6:32
92 AIMEE SHEN    SOMERVILLE MA    2:34:20  7:43

507 finishers

Half marathon
6 Michael Moyles Cambridge MA     1:24:30  6:27
  (New GBTC member)
39 Tom Derderian Boston MA        1:41:50  7:47
184 finishers