Men Harvest Apples

The 2007 New England men's open USATF Grand Prix 10 mile Championship Team
Avi Kramer, Kibrom Temelso, Ryan Aschbrenner, Giannis Papadopoulos, David Bedoya photo by Derderian


I effortlessly rode my bike down a sun dappled lane in wealthy, bucolic, Harvard MA in perfect autumn weather. Next to my cocoon of pleasantness ran Avi Kramer and two Boston Athletic Association runners in a death dual in the uphill ninth mile in pursuit of a dying Greater Lowell runner. None of them could summon anything like a kick out of the thickness of their own fatigue. I watched their slow-motion agony like prize fighters in the ring too long who could only throw pitiful punches at each other. No one produced a knockout kick. Slowly the big BAA runner passed the shrinking Lowell runner and slowly Avi Kramer shuffled away from the other BAA runner.

This molasses shuffle played and replayed as each group of the 548 finishers readjusted their order of finish in the last mile's battle against gravity.

But through it all the Greater Boston Track Club men's team won the open championships over the BAA and all other teams to launch into a lead in the year's USATFNE Grand Prix series.

Men's team first
women's team 5th
masters men 10th
full results:http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Sep23_AppleH_set5.shtml

Now GBTC leads CMS in the year's point standings 85 to 82 with Whirlaway at 77.
For women MVS leads at 62 with GBTC at 52 and Whirlaway at 48.
Apple Harvest Ramble 10 Miles
Harvard, MA, September 23, 2007
1 CASEY MOULTON GLRR 51:39
2 KIBROM TEMELSO GBTC 52:42
5 AVI KRAMER GBTC 53:05
11 DAVID BEDOYA GBTC 54:25
16 RYAN ASCHBRENNER GBTC 55:01
18 IOANNIS PAPADOPOULOS GBTC 55:09
27 KIT WELLS GBTC 56:01
54 NATHANIEL FREESE GBTC 59:45
78 BRIAN HARE GBTC 1:02:37
86 JASON HEWITT GBTC 1:03:28
107 MAX WHITE GBTC 1:05:16
128 BRUCE BOND GBTC 1:07:26
129 KEN ROSS GBTC 1:07:36
137 LYNN JOHNSON GBTC 1:08:00
145 CARRIE GOLDEN GBTC 1:08:31
160 JOEL BARGMANN GBTC 1:09:42
169 KATIE FOBERT GBTC 1:10:26
260 KEN AGABIAN GBTC 1:19:11
266 NORM ROBBIE GBTC 1:19:37
548 finishers