GBTC's Best Teams of the Modern Era

PHOTO:Audrey Giesler at Westford (by Jim Rhoades)

"These may be the best GBTC teams of the modern era." says GBTC coach Tom Derderian of the teams the club is sending to the New England Grand Prix # 4 in Bedford, NH 12 km road race. Both GBTC teams score second in the seven-race series. The men's team is only a single point behind the Central Mass Striders and tied with the GCS-Triad team out of Southern New Hampshire but the women's team is tied with Whirlaway six points behind the Merrimack Valley Striders.

The GBTC team leader at the Groton 10km on April 29th, Avi Kramer, who finished second in the race will team up with 5 km leader Jeremy Borling who lead the team at 5 km. Kibrom Temelso who has not run a Grand Prix race since the first one at New Bedford in the half marathon will join them. Brennan Bonner, tip top marathon man, David Bedoya, Ted Breen, and Junyong Pak is a 12 km team that has the stuff to win and launch into the summer Grand Prix hiatus in first place.

The GBTC women's team with Emily Raymond back in action since the marathon, Audrey Giesler, Gretchen Chick, Megah Doshi, and Katies Famous and Fobert and possibly Lynn Johnson will run very close to the Merrimack Valley girls. Raymond and Giesler may well take the first two positions in the race.