GBTC in Aggressive 5km Grand Prix

Today twenty-six GBTC runners raced in the year's third USATFNE Grand Prix road race. Boston University grad student Jeremy Borling from Chicago, racing for the first time since his 2:27 Boston Marathon, led the team to a sixth place finish in perhaps the most hotly contested Grand Prix men's open team race ever. A pack of 30 men ran through the mile together in 4:45 to 5:00. Only one or two seconds per man defined the differences in the order of team placings. The GBTC men had led the GP series points going into the race but came out in a tie for second place a mere point behind the Central Mass Striders. David Bedoya from Spain came back from leading the GBTC team to fourth in the Boston Marathon with his 2:26 to run third for the team seconds behind Junyong Pak a graduate of Tulane.
Elementary school teacher Allison McCabe from University of Connecticut led the GBTC open women's team to second place by taking third overall in the women's race. Boston grad student Laura Hayden, University of Michigan, and Audrey Giesler, University of Indiana, followed McCabe. All the women had a tough time threading their way through the furiously racing herd of men of all ages and shapes. The GBTC women's team is now also tied for second place in the GP point series.
The next GP race is the Bedford, NH 12 km on May 19th.
8th Westford Road Race
Westford, MA, May 6, 2007
http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/May6_8thWes_set1.shtml



All GBTC Finishers

13 JEREMY BORLING 15:35
26 JUNYONG PAK 15:49
29 DAVID BEDOYA 15:51
34 JOHN TYSON 16:01
38 MIKE PIECK 16:10
45 TJ NILES 16:22
49 RYAN ASCHBRENNER 16:26
71 BRAD KOZEL 17:00
79 BRUCE DAVIE 17:15
102 ALLISON MCCABE 17:51
122 BRIAN HARE 18:20
132 LAURA HAYDEN 18:33
135 BILL NEWSHAM 18:38
146 AUDREY GIESLER 18:48
159 MEGHA DOSHI 19:04
160 DAVID BURGESS 19:05
166 BRUCE BOND 19:10
169 GRETCHEN CHICK 19:12
214 KATIE FOBERT 20:06
227 TOM DERDERIAN 20:19
244 CHRISTY BONSTELLE 20:36
265 HEATHER AUDET 21:02
328 NORM ROBBIE 22:58
340 KENNETH AGABIAN 23:23
360 WENDY NEWSHAM 24:03
435 MITHU LAHIRI 26:17
436 MICHAEL OLIVO 26:19
613 finishers