Topsfield XC Men's Results

Start of the Men's 8k. Photo by Bruce Davie

Team Results
1 Central Mass Striders 27
2 SISU 57
3 Greater Boston TC 62
4 Naval Academy Prep 86
5 New England Track & Trail 124

Individual Results
1 Matt Clark CMS 26.36
2 Andy McCarron CMS 26.46
3 Matthew Germain SISU 26.54
4 Ben Strain CMS 26.55
5 Ryan Miller SISU 27.09
6 Joe Sharis CMS 27.14
7 Daniel Navaroli SISU 27.33
8 Junyong Pak GBTC 27.36
9 Ros Hughes NAP 27.40
10 Corey Boilard Granite State 27.47
11 Mike Panas GBTC 27.49
12 Ryan Kerrigan GBTC 27.52
13 Domenic Della-Pelle NAP 27.56
14 Brad Kozel GBTC 27.58
15 Dan Verrington CMS 28.01
16 Jim Pawlicki CMS 28.02
17 Dave Hannon NETT 28.03
18 George Stevenson NAP 28.09
19 Michael Peyron 28.26
20 Mark Reeder GL 28.29
21 John Barbour 28.34
22 Louis Cote SISU 28.47
23 Dennis C. Floyd CMS 28.59
24 Rodney Hemingway GBTC 29.29
25 Paris Scott NAP 29.35
26 Dan Hall GBTC 29.39
27 David Sargent unattached 29.42
28 John Kinnbee NETT 29.54
29 Jamie Aubuchon SISU 29.58
30 Steve Cruickshank unattached 30.01
31 James Doneski Granite State 30.02
32 Mark Bell BAA 30.05
33 Jim Croke GBTC 30.59
34 Carlo Zambonelli SRR 31.14
35 Dan Smith GBTC 31.24
36 Benjamin Winther NETT 31.26
37 Sean Kelly NAP 31.29
38 Figueroa Marclino NAP 31.49
39 Dimitry Shirokov NETT 31.52
40 Frank Kjaersgaard NETT 33.52
41 Charles Boornazian NAP 34.40
42 Paul Copeland SRR 35.16
43 Tom O'Donoghue 35.30
44 John Maynard MVS 36.05
45 Joe Green 37.01
46 Anthony Chamberas NETT 37.13
47 Patrick Sheridan GL 37.18
48 John Loring unattached 45.31
49 747 Buddy Hubert 54.31

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Topsfiled XC Women's Results

Team
1 Greater Boston TC 18
2 SISU 55
3 Naval Academy Prep 76
4 New E England Track & Trail 88

1 Allison McCabe GBTC 18.26
2 Gretchen Chick GBTC 18.29
3 Caitlyn Clark SISU 18.52
4 Jen Lee GBTC 19.02
5 Sloan Siegrist GBTC 19.23
6 Liz Kelly GBTC 19.38
7 Jennifer Rappaport SRR 20.07
8 Monica Casali SRR 20.50
9 Jesusah Palacio NAP 20.51
10 Julie Hanover MVS 20.54
11 Elizabeth Eiseman GBTC 20.56
12 Laura Rudd SISU 21.38
13 Morgan Clark-Coller GBTC 21.43
14 Deanna Clark GBTC 22.05
15 Andrienne Cyrulik NETT 22.22
16 Kristina Scott SISU 22.24
17 Sarah Petri GBTC 22.25
18 Meghan Callanan NAP 22.30
19 Julie Collins SISU 22.33
20 Tracey Bruce NAP 22.36
21 Barbara Bell BAA 22.39
22 Ana Hubert 23.08
23 Christina Donivan GBTC 23.11
24 Tina Wang NETT 23.25
25 Paula Donovan GBTC 24.10
26 Kelly Aschbrenner GBTC 24.27
27 Yvonne Flanders SISU 24.32
28 Laura Wieland NETT 24.35
29 Dawn Mampremian NETT 24.35
30 Erin Donovan GLY 24.36
31 Jade Purdente NAP 24.39
32 Lauren Conoscenti GBTC 24.45
33 Lauren Meats NAP 25.10
34 Shannon Wright GLY 25.46
35 Cynthia Hastings GBTC 25.53
36 Andrea Stoke NAP 26.32
37 Rachel Herrera NAP 26.36
38 Marina Shirokov NETT 37.10

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GBTC Women Win, Men 3rd in Topsfield XC

Gretchen Chick, Allison McCabe and Sloan Siegrist in the early lead at Topsfield. Photo by Bruce Davie

Full results above.
Photos from the women's race are here.
Photos from the men's race are here.
Team results:

Women
1. GBTC
2. SISU
3. Naval Academy Prep
4. NETT

Men
1. CMS
2. SISU
3. GBTC
4. Naval Academy Prep
5. NETT

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Audrey Giesler receives Margaret Bradley Award

Audrey Giesler in the Westford 5k, May 2007

The Greater Boston Track Club is pleased to announce that Audrey Giesler will be the GBTC recipient of this year's Margaret Bradley award. Like Margaret, Audrey has lived in both Boston and Chicago and has represented both of Margaret's former clubs - GBTC and Chicago's Universal Sole. Audrey ran a time of 2:50:45 in her marathon debut in Chicago last year, and has been a key member of the GBTC women's road-racing squad since moving to Boston in 2006. "Like Margaret, Audrey came through for the team time and again," says GBTC coach Tom Derderian. Audrey recently returned to Chicago but will race the marathon as a GBTC member.

Margaret L. Bradley was a member of GBTC who died while on a trail run through the Grand Canyon on July 10, 2004, at the age of 24. Margaret ran the 2003 Chicago marathon in 2:58:52 and led the GBTC women's team to victory in the 2004 Boston marathon with a time of 3:04:54, finishing as 31st woman. Margaret lived in Chicago in 2003 and 2004, and while living there she competed with the Universal Sole track club.

GBTC and Universal Sole have jointly established the Margaret Bradley award in honor of Margaret. The intent of the award is to send one runner annually from GBTC to compete in the Chicago marathon and to bring one runner annually from Universal Sole to compete in the Boston marathon. The two clubs intend for the award to continue in perpetuity for the purpose of recognizing and aiding aspiring young, female marathoners who are of similar ability to that of Bradley.

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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

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Women and Men Net Codfish

Gretchen Chick a stride ahead of Allison McCabe photo by Ryan Aschbrenner


photo by Derderian
Original GBTC coach and Codfish Bowl Founder Bill Squires helps a runner overcome in the final straight by the hot weather.

Men Win 'fish Too

498, Jason Dunklee, 507, Mike Pannas, 496, Ted Breen, 503 Brad Kozol, 497, Jim Croke, 505 T.J. Niles,
501, Matt Hoell, 506, Junyong Pak, 499 J.J. Fialkovick, 0, Dan Hall
Old guy, Coach Tom Derderian, photo by Kit Wells

Gretchen Chick won on this hot summery day with last year's winner Allison McCabe close behind while GBTC packed seven runners into the top ten winning the meet by a monstrous margin. For GBTC this race is a dry run on the highly contested Mayor's Cup course.
The men's team won by a mere 4 points over the New York Institute of Technology and the BAA. Only one second separated the total team time scores. Every second does count.
The Mayor's Cup race goes on October 28th.
On this 40th Anniversary of the Codfish Bowl founded by GBTC's original coach, Bill Squires saw the "Coach" present and active. At one point he rushed out to help a heat-stressed runner. Later he joined the club for lunch (at the club's invitation and expense) at nearby Doyle's where he filled all nearby with story after story. The club is most grateful for his contributions over the decades.

full results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Sep22_40thAn_set1.shtml

Codfish Bowl XC Races - 40th anniversary - 9/22/2007
Franklin Park, Boston MA 5km

1 Gretchen Chick Greater Boston TC 18:26 1
2 Allison McCabe Greater Boston TC 18:32 2
4 Marian Birhle Greater Boston TC 18:47 4
5 Liz Kelly Greater Boston TC 19:13 5
8 Jen Lee Greater Boston TC 19:21 7
9 Laura Hayden Greater Boston TC 19:24 8
10 Sloan Siegrist Greater Boston TC 19:36 9
47 Morgan Clark-Coller Greater Boston TC 21:56
70 Allison Curran Greater Boston TC 23:01
109 Lauren Conocsenti Greater Boston TC 25:30
133 finishers 13 teams

1 Evans Kigan New York Institu 25:12 1
5 Matt Hoell Greater Boston TC 26:52 3
9 Ted Breen Greater Boston TC 27:07 7
18 Mike Panas Greater Boston TC 27:29 13
26 Junyong Pak Greater Boston TC 27:58 20
27 Brad Kozol Greater Boston TC 28:05 21
52 Jim Croke Greater Boston TC 30:40 37
53 JJ Fialkovich Greater Boston TC 30:48 38
57 Dan Hall Greater Boston TC 31:03
64 Jason Dunklee Greater Boston TC 31:42
91 finishers (lots of DNFs)
9 teams

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Marzuki describes his path to the US Olympic Trials

Marzuki Stevens discusses how training with GBTC helped to rekindle his Olympic aspirations, guiding him from the steeplechase to the marathon. He now runs on the West coast with TranSports adidas and will compete in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Men’s Marathon on November 3rd.

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Avi Leads NE Grand Prix

Avi Leads NE Grand Prix

Avi Kramer has accumulated more points in the New England USATF Grand Prix series than anyone. With five of seven events run Kramer has a two point lead over Greater Lowell's Ben Ndaya. Kramer has not finished worst that fifth in any of the three Grand Prix races he ran. His best place was second in the Groton 10 km. If he can maintain his lead in the remaining two races, the Harvard 10 miler on Sept 30, and the Cape Cod Marathon on Oct 28th, he would join the select company of previous winners, Casey and Pat Moulton, Nate Jenkins, Craig Fram, and Dave Dunham going back until the start of the individual scoring in 1986. http://www.usatfne.org/road/gphistoryindividual.html

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Women Win Hot Ollie 5 Mile NE Grand Prix

Bruce Davie Fighting the heat at Ollie Photo by Scott Raymond


No one felt good running in the heat of the Ollie. No one ran their fastest. But most everyone ran their hardest. But hottest of all was the Greater Boston Women's team as they put all five scorers in the top ten! They won by over a minute beating the Merrimack Valley Striders and the Boston Athletic Association.

1. GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB
29:53 30:39 31:12 31:22 31:29 = 2:34:35
ALLISON MCCABE 25, EMILY RAYMOND 25, GRETCHEN CHICK
26, LAURA HAYDEN 27, ELIZABETH KELLY 22

The women's team had such depth that the next five GBTC women would have formed a top scoring club. Avi Kramer led the men's team to fourth place behind the Central Mass Striders with whom they had been tied for first place.
Now both open team are in second place in the New England Grand Prix with two races remaining in the year's series.

Maybe Tomoaki Uchiki ran the hardest of all because he tripped over some metal during his cool down and wound up in the emergency room. He had to have stitches on his leg and broke one bone in each forearm. He said," My legs were OK except that I got a wound on my shin which was closed by two stiches. My arms were however broken somewhat. Both of my lower arms (I think the bone called fibula (sic)) and a bone close to my left thumb fractured. Fortunately, I did not have to receive any operation, and I was told that they will be healed in 4 to 6 weeks."

Ollie 5 Mile Classic
Boston, MA, September 8, 2007
37 GBTC runners
Open men 4th
Open women 1st
Men Masters 6th

1 MARK MILLER 26 M 1/167 M2029 24:42 4:57
8 AVI KRAMER 26 M 7/167 M2029 26:11 5:15
21 GIANNIS PAPADOPOULOS 23 M 17/167 M2029 27:02 5:25
34 RYAN ASCHBRENNER 30 M 6/154 M3039 27:26 5:30
36 KEVIN SOMERS 29 M 22/167 M2029 27:28 5:30
43 DAVID BEDOYA 30 M 8/154 M3039 27:49 5:34
45 RYAN KERRIGAN 27 M 26/167 M2029 27:49 5:34
60 NATHANIEL FREESE 22 M 31/167 M2029 28:26 5:42
62 BRAD KOZEL 27 M 32/167 M2029 28:26 5:42
72 BRUCE DAVIE 44 M 17/120 M4049 28:48 5:46
74 JOHN BLOUIN 32 M 18/154 M3039 28:56 5:48
78 TOMOAKI UCHIKI 33 M 20/154 M3039 29:03 5:49
97 ALLISON MCCABE 25 F 2/245 F2029 29:53 5:59
98 BILL NEWSHAM 42 M 21/120 M4049 29:55 5:59
99 MAX WHITE 23 M 44/167 M2029 29:58 6:00
113 BRIAN HARE 43 M 26/120 M4049 30:35 6:07
115 TJ NILES 22 M 46/167 M2029 30:39 6:08
116 EMILY RAYMOND 25 F 3/245 F2029 30:39 6:08
132 JACOB TREVINO 27 M 51/167 M2029 31:09 6:14
133 GRETCHEN CHICK 26 F 5/245 F2029 31:12 6:15
135 LAURA HAYDEN 27 F 6/245 F2029 31:22 6:17
140 ELIZABETH KELLY 22 F 7/245 F2029 31:29 6:18
148 MARY SLOAN SIEGRIST 26 F 9/245 F2029 31:43 6:21
150 MARIAN BIHRLE 23 F 10/245 F2029 31:49 6:22
155 JOSHUA SEEHERMAN 28 M 55/167 M2029 32:02 6:25
159 KATIE FAMOUS 27 F 13/245 F2029 32:08 6:26
167 LYNN JOHNSON 34 F 5/152 F3039 32:26 6:30
169 RICHARD PUCKERIN 57 M 13/95 M5059 32:38 6:32
180 JENNIFER LEE 25 F 17/245 F2029 32:50 6:34
183 626 BRUCE BOND 55 M 18/95 M5059 32:57 6:36
208 RYAN CROTEAU 32 M 40/154 M3039 33:39 6:44
213 KEN ROSS 45 M 43/120 M4049 33:51 6:47
246 JOEL BARGMANN 55 M 30/95 M5059 34:44 6:57
256 DAN HALL 24 M 72/167 M2029 35:02 7:01
310 ELIZABETH EISEMAN 22 F 30/245 F2029 37:00 7:24
339 NORM ROBBIE 44 M 58/120 M4049 37:46 7:34
393 DEANNA CLARK 26 F 40/245 F2029 39:01 7:49
431 KEN AGABIAN 44 M 68/120 M4049 39:53 7:59

1229 Finishers

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Front Runner Wins

Before the Cape Ann 25 km road race I told GBTC runners Kibrom Temelso and Nate Freese to go to the front and run because it is the most risky place to be and the most fun. They did. With bloody feet Kibrom finished first with Nate running the longest race of his life hanging on for fourth place. Club President Bruce Davie won the master's division and all of our men finished in the top 20 out of 574 finishers on this warm, dry summer day.
Placing six men in the top 20 won the team prize and a check for $100. Kibrom got $200 for the win.
The 74th Annual Around Cape Ann 25K Road Race September 3, 2007 25K

1 1/75 1:26:10 5:34 Kibrom Temelso 32 M Boston MA
4 2/32 1:30:47 5:52 Nate Freese 22 M Tunbridge VT
8 1/122 1:34:35 6:07 Bruce Davie 44 M Cambridge MA
10 5/75 1:37:13 6:17 Chris Smith 33 M 486 Newton MA
16 7/32 1:40:58 6:31 Max White 23 M Boston MA
19 4/122 1:42:25 6:37 Brian Hare 43 M Arlington MA
44 2/48 1:50:24 7:08 Carrie Golden 23 F Jamaica Plain M
65 6/81 1:55:12 7:26 Christy Bonstelle 35 F Cambridge MA
94 10/81 1:58:48 7:40 Kathryn Fobert 31 F Canton MA
574 finishers

Mike Panas ran second in the Malboro ten miler in 56 minutes and Emily Raymond won the 5k Irish race in 18:44 and the Sunday Globe listed Olivier Humblet, Jen Lee in the Fresh Pond Race.

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