GBTC Men win Grand Prix 12 km

photo of Gretchen Chick at Westford by Jim Rhoades

I picked up Kibrom Temelso and teammates TJ Niles and Max White at the emergency room entrance to the Chidren's Hospital in Boston after Kibrom's all night shift. I had committed to getting him to the race on time and other teammates promised to see that he tied his result-transponder chip to his shoe. As coach I had told Kibrom in the Boston Marathon to run with teammates Jeremy Borling and David Bedoya, but a blast of optimism had propelled him to run with the elite chase pack. He never finished. At the Bedford 12km, chastened and perhaps a little sleepy, he stuck like velcro to Jeremy. Avi Kramer, recently of Vassar College, ran hesitantly behind three leading runners. All the GBTC top six men ran in the top twenty. They wanted to beat the Central Mass Striders and the GCS-Triad teams that had beaten them in the 5 km. They knew they were a better, longer distance team than a 5 km team. In the misty rain over the hilly course CMS put three men in the top ten, matching GBTC, but only four in the top twenty. GBTC won.

Andrew Wommack and Dylan Morris ran their first races for the club.

Before the women's race Emily Raymond deftly banded tufts of her hair in colored elastics. Why she does this before every race, no one knows. But there might be some magic to it. Emily outkicked Merrimack Valley Striders' Molly Taber to win the women's open race. But Taber's teammates followed too closely and defeated the GBTC team. Gretchen Chick ran the best road race of her life to take second place for the club with Audrey Giesler following in the three-runner scoring used for the women's race.

Tara Vance ran her first race for the club.


GBTC open men 1st
GBTC open women 2nd
GBTC masters men 10th
full:http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/nh/May19_33rdBe_set1.shtml
Bedford, NH
2007 USATF-NE 12K Championship
May 19, 2007
GBTC only
3 38:31 Avi Kramer
6 38:51 Kibrom Temelso
7 38:54 Jeremy Borling
14 39:59 Edward Breen
15 40:07 David Bedoya
20 40:19 Tj Niles
26 40:55 Junyong Pak
35 41:34 Andrew Wommack
43 42:30 Sarad Tomlinson
53 42:53 Bruce Davie
62 43:41 Emily Raymond
68 44:09 Dylan Morris
78 45:00 Brian Hare
88 45:36 Max White
101 46:21 Bill Newsham
104 46:41 Gretchen Chick
106 46:51 Audrey Giesler
111 46:58 Megha Doshi
121 47:43 Katie Famous
125 47:56 Bruce Bond
161 49:43 Kathryn Fobert
162 49:45 Tara Vance
211 51:43 Tom Derderian
235 53:02 Christy Bonstelle
253 54:04 Ken Agabian
285 56:29 Allison Curran
343 1:00:18 Norm Robbie
403 1:06:44 Mithu Lahiri
459 finishers