Cape Cod Marathon Times

It appears that Avi has won the individual Grand Prix for 2007 and the GBTC men have won the team prize for the year's series by beating Central Mass Striders. But we are still waiting for official tabulations.

The relay team " Margaret Bradley Fish" composed of GBTC women remembering their teammate, won.
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Cape Cod Marathon Oct 28th, 2007 GBTC official team finishers

3 Avi Kramer 2:29:48 5:43 GBTC
11 Ryan Aschbrenner 2:39:39 6:06 GBTC
36 Brian Hare 2:56:02 6:43 GBTC
82 Bruce E. Bond 3:10:11 7:16 GBTC
100 Max White 3:15:14 7:27 GBTC
113 Kathryn A. Fobert 3:18:52 7:36 GBTC
259 Kenneth Agabian 3:40:06 8:24 GBTC
352 Norm Robbie 3:49:30 8:46 GBTC

http://www.capecodmarathon.com/result-07-all.ccml

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You're Gonna Fall in Love with Old Cape Cod

By Christy Bonstelle

The Cape Cod Marathon is a beautiful, well run event. But they do sometimes take a while to post their results. So, in absence of cold, hard numerical facts, here’s a view from the sidelines.

By all accounts, the Cape Cod Marathon course has not suddenly become flat. Avi, who came in third, said that the course was deceptively difficult. “I turned the corner just after the 25 mile mark and was running into the wind. I didn’t have anything left to fight it.” First GBTC female finisher Katie Fobert mentioned the rolling hills from mile 21 – 24 ½, which would probably have been less problematic if they had not come on the heels of real hills from mile 10 to mile 21. Oh, right, and there were some hills in mile 2 I think….or am I thinking of the hills in mile 6….

Avi and Katie shared these observations while we sat around, post race, at the Bradley house, stuffing our faces with Lynne’s legendary chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to talk to the other marathoners after the event, but I did get to watch and gossip with other GBTC Team Fish relay runners, so here are the unconfirmed reports.

Master’s runners Bruce Bond and Brian Hare both looked like they had solid races. No one has been able to confirm or deny that Brian broke a certain barrier that he’s been after for some time (although we know it was close), and we were all too nervous to talk about it for fear that we would jinx it. So let’s just talk about something else now.

Max White has learned what The Wall is. And he’s learned what tenacity is. Both will come in handy with his next marathon. He got credit for staying vertical through the finish.

I saw Ken Agabian at the finish, and gave a yell. He seemed alert, but I have no stories other than that.

I also haven’t heard from Ryan Ashbrenner. I suspect that it did not come together for him on Sunday exactly as he would have liked, although I expect he still ran a solid race.

GBTC Team Fish (Cheryl, Lynne, Lori Blake, Christy, Jess) was once again successful (I think) in the women’s relay, having battled it out in legs 3-5 again Fritz’s Frisky Feline’s. I have to say, miles 15 -21 were tough even without having run the first 14 miles. Support Crew Kit got us to/from our legs on time, made sure we were appropriately dressed, navigated the back roads in “banana gear,” and was generally a calming presence. Keith “Go Fish” Bradley once again did his 26 mile bike sprint (marathoners to relay-ers and back again), yelling “Follow the Fish” all the way, while Mary Jo Bradley volunteered at the first hand off and then cheered at the finish. Pictures, and I’m sure more stories, to follow.

Congratulations all.

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Men 8th in Mayor's Cup Championship

The GBTC men placed 8th in the exclusive and highly competitive Mayor’s Cup. Ted Breen led the team starting sleuthfully and sneaking through the pack, dispatching runner after runner.
Next weekend Breen and his team go to New York City to race in the famous “Bad Boy” cross-country and Bedoya and Freese will race in the New York City Marathon.

18th Annual Mayor's Cup
Presented by the B.A.A. and adidas
Men's Championship
Oct. 28, 2007 8 Kilometers Franklin Park, Boston, MA
1 23:18 4:43 Girma Tola 32 WESTCHESTER TC
62 26:07 5:17 Edward Breen 26 GBTC
67 26:16 5:19 David Bedoya 30 GBTC
69 26:19 5:20 Matthew Hoelle 25 GBTC
85 26:37 5:24 Matthew Harringa 24 GBTC
94 26:45 5:25 Giannos Papadopoulos 23 GBTC
107 26:59 5:28 John Tyson 25 GBTC
113 27:07 5:30 Brad Kozel 27 GBTC
117 27:18 5:32 Rob Espinosa 23 GBTC
121 27:25 5:33 TJ Niles 23 GBTC
128 27:32 5:35 Nathaniel Freese 22 GBTC
137 27:42 5:37 Ryan Kerrigan 27 GBTC
142 27:47 5:38 Bruce Davie 44 GBTC
150 28:05 5:41 Jason Hewitt 29 GBTC
166 29:33 5:59 Jason Dunklee 33 GBTC
178 34:17 6:57 Philip Webster 25 GBTC

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Club teams take 1st and 3rd in Franklin Park 5 km

This is the "JV" or "B" race as part of the Mayor's Cup. In the team scoring GBTC women won men took third. Cynthia Hastings won her age group. Two runners represented the club for the first time, Vermont Grad Heather Mitchell, and Wheaton, IL, grad and usually long hurdler, Jessica Klett along with old timers Rich Puckerin and me.


24 17:23 5:35 Dan Smith 29 GBTC
29 17:33 5:38 Jeff Rominger 22 GBTC
36 17:59 5:46 John Fialkovich 26 GBTC
58 18:44 6:01 Aaron Binkley 30 GBTC
79 19:45 6:20 Richard Puckerin 57 GBTC
80 19:49 6:22 Ethan Richard 27 GBTC
91 20:04 6:26 Heather Mitchell 22 GBTC
92 20:05 6:27 Elizabeth Eiseman 22 GBTC
94 20:10 6:29 Tom Derderian 58 GBTC
113 21:01 6:45 Morgan Clark-Coller GBTC
123 21:19 6:51 David Callum 32 GBTC
124 21:20 6:51 Caroline Ocean 27 GBTC
134 21:51 7:01 Sara O'Brien 26 GBTC
138 21:57 7:03 Deanna Clark 26 GBTC
151 22:25 7:12 Jessica Klett 23 GBTC
154 22:33 7:14 Sarah Petrie 26 GBTC
173 3 24:17 7:48 Lauren Conoscenti 28 GBTC
193 25:36 8:13 Cynthia Hastings 50 GBTC

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Women 3rd in Mayor's Cup Championship

The best finish of a GBTC woman in the Mayor’s Cup was Johanna Veltri’s 18:03 ten years ago. She ran the club record that stood until today when Gretchen Chick and Allison McCabe broke the club place and time record placing 19th and 20th in 18:02.
The team placed 3rd.
Full results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Oct28_Mayors_set4.shtml

It is clear to me that this team reacts strongly to each other in races to the peril of the other teams. They train hard together and race even harder.

The rest of the season, New Englands and especially Club Nationals, will be interesting.


18th Annual Mayor's Cup
Presented by the B.A.A. and adidas
Women's Championship
Oct. 28, 2007 5 Kilometers Franklin Park, Boston, MA
1 16:37 5:20 Aziza Ayilu 22 WESTCHESTER TC

19 18:02 5:47 Gretchen Chick 26 GBTC
20 18:02 5:47 Allison McCabe 25 GBTC

31 18:25 5:55 Marian Bihrle 24 GBTC
32 18:28 5:56 Jennifer Lee 25 GBTC

43 18:56 6:05 Sloan Siegrist 27 GBTC
50 19:05 6:08 Elizabeth Kelley 23 GBTC

55 19:21 6:13 Laura Hayden 27 GBTC

82 20:52 6:42 Victoria Barnaby GBTC

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A Brief History of GBTC in the Mayor's Cup

Melissa Leier leading Sloan Siegrist photo by Jim Rhodes


The highest the women placed was third in 2004 and the highest the men placed was 4th in 2000.

I think that in 1996 GBTC first competed in the Mayor's Cup. The meet had started in 1990, but I don't have any record of GBTC in it. In the 1996 race GBTC men placed 17th with Jim Pawlicki leading the team in 116th place in 26:20. Only one club woman, Sarah Rankin ran placing 113th in 20:58.

The next year GBTC had a women's team led by Harvard grad, Johanna Veltri, who ran 27th in 18:03, a time that remains the club Mayor's Cup record. Her team placed 9th out of 10.

The men led by Deon Barrett in 99th place in 25:47 took 12th out of 21 teams.
(At age 47 I ran 28:10 and have degenerated since.)

Men and women placed 7th in 1998 with MIT grad Jesse Darley in 30th in 24:41 and Tracey Timmins in 46th in 19:10.

The teams improved to 6th place the next year led by Brown grad, Glen Mays, in 19th place in 24:47 and Christina Manolatou an MIT grad student from Greece placing a club record high of 14th in 18:26.

In 2000 it was Mays and Middlebury grad Jessica Blake running 12th in 24:24 and 21st in 18:22.
With teams 4th men and 5th women. Mays time and place stand as the club records for Mayor's Cup

In 2001 Tim McCusker, Colgate grad, led the team in 11th placing 45th in 24:53 and Melissa Leier 58th in 19:18 taking the women's team to 9th.

2002 saw the men in 10th led by Dennis Floyd in 40th place in 25:35 and Blake 45th in 19:15 with the women's team in 7th

Men fell to 13th in 2003 led by Tufts doctoral student Ben Nephew in 26:04 for 57th while Jess Blake again led the women's team place 41st in 19:23.

In 2004 the GBTC men place 11th led by Steve Pache placing 36th in 25:31 and Yarrow Moench in 30th led the women to the club's record high third place.

In 2005 GBTC took 11th for men led by Ryan Aschbrenner in 55th place in 26:29 and Laura Hayden led the women's team to 5th with her 19:14 for 44th.

Last year Brennan Bonner led the men to 6th placing 31st in 25:07 while Allison McCabe led the women also to 6th with an 18:20 good for 28th place.

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Papadopoulos runs Personal Best Marathon for 4th in Lowell

photo of Giannis Papadopoulos by Tom Derderian

Running 6:22 per mile new GBTC member 23 year-old Giannis Papadopoulos, a journalism grad student from Greece at Emerson College in Boston, ran his personal best today in the Bay State Marathon in Lowell, MA placing 4th.

In an email to me he told his race story,

"Before the race I had a feeling that I was ready to make a personal best. The weather was nice but a cold breeze made me feel a little uncomfortable on the starting line."

Seven hundred and seventeen runners would finish the race on a fairly flat course on a windy day.

"The first runner was way ahead of me but I could keep an eye contact. I was running in a group with three other people."

"When the race begun some bad thoughts haunted my mind, even thought that was my fourth marathon. Am I ready to do this? Am I crazy? I will be running for more than two hours! I tried to calm down and control my breaths and my pace in the race."

Papadopoulos had raced in the Ollie 8k run and in the Harvard 10 mile placing second and fifth for the GBTC team.

"When we reached the 7th mile I felt a pain in my stomach. I stopped and tried to throw up, but I couldn't. The stomach ache would become my companion for the next miles. After the half marathon I threw up. A biker offered me some water. After this moment of shock I was relieved. Stress and pain free I entered the race and tried to find my pace. My legs were strong and my pace dropped to 6.07-6.14 for a mile. I was focusing on the runners backs and passing them one by one. Three miles to go and the third runner was two minutes ahead of me. I tried harder and half a mile before the end I could see him. Three hundred meters before the finish line I was ready to sprint and pass him. Then a cramp stopped me. I finished fourth, four seconds behind the third runner."

full results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Oct14_19thAn_set1.shtml

Bruce Davie, Andy Colon and Christy Bonstelle ran the half marathon, Davie also recording a PR (1:16:33).

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Men Second at Wayland XC

Team results: Female Open 5K
NETT Team Score: 47
Sisu Project Team Score: 47
Liberty AC Team Score: 48
GFRC Team Score: 72

Male Open 5K
Sisu Project Team Score: 24
GBTC Team Score: 58
NETT Team Score: 67
NETT Masters Team Score: 97
GFRC Team Score: 120
Codman Academy Team Score: 153

First club races for Rominger and Perry
Wayland XC Challenge
Wayland, MA, October 7, 2007
Open 5k

1 Dmitry Drozdov 15:58 5:08
all GBTC
8 Brad Kozel 16:54 5:26
14 Matthew Haringer 17:26 5:37
20 Michael Panas 17:42 5:42
24 Jeff Rominger 18:02 5:48
30 Jason Dunklee 18:20 5:54
32 Pete Warrington 18:28 5:57
33 Matt Schiller 18:30 5:57
34 Jim Croke 18:31 5:58

58 Jennifer Perry 21:20 6:52
61 Morgan Clark-Coller 21:35 6:57
100 Kelly Aschbrenner 24:25 7:52
119 Wendy Newsham 27:14 8:46
156 finishers

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Avi Races Great BAA Half

Lynn Johnson Battles the Field, photo by Ted Tyler

Avi Kramer proved he is well on his way in marathon training for Cape Cod and to win the New England Grand Prix with his fine showing on this not-so-fast course.


SEVENTH ANNUAL B.A.A. HALF MARATHON

Boston, MA - October 7, 2007

1 1:02:20# 1:02:20 4:46 Tom Nyariki Kenya NB
2 1:02:21# 1:02:20 4:46 Samuel Ndereba Kenya
13 1:09:27 1:09:27 5:18 Avi Kramer GBTC
16 1:10:49 1:10:48 5:25 David Bedoya GBTC
49 1:20:49 1:20:47 6:10 Christopher Smith GBTC
95 1:26:29 1:26:27 6:36 Lynn Johnson GBTC
103 1:27:07 1:27:02 6:39 Ken Ross GBTC
3599 finishers

full results:http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Oct7_BAAHal_set4.shtml

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McCabe and Kelly pr at Tufts

Sloan and Gretchen on Memorial Drive photo by Jim Rhodes


Leading the GBTC "red" team to fifth place Allison McCabe ran her personal best pacing much of the way with newly returned club veteran Sara Donahue. She had been in Seattle for grad school and is back in Boston continuing her studies. Because of her sudden appearance she was not declared on the team. Liz Kelly leading the "white" team to 9th place ran a personal best also. Sandy Miller continued her streak of running every Tufts 10km since 1977. Difficulties with an IT band forced her to walk the course. Marian Bihrle, a recent graduate of Princeton, may have run a personal best also.
More and faster teams competed this year than every before.
Many thanks to all the GBTC members who earned money for the club by working at the race and to Brad Kozol for organizing that effort.

full results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Oct8_TuftsH_set1.shtml
TUFTS Health Plan 10K For Women
Oct. 8, 2007
1 32:01# 5:10 Deena Kastor Mammoth Lakes CA
43 36:09 5:49 Allison McCabe GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "RED"
48 36:32 5:53 Sara Donahue
58 37:26 6:02 Emily S Raymond GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "RED"
59 37:31 6:02 Marian Bihrle GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "RED"
60 37:42 6:04 Gretchen Chick GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "RED"
63 38:00 6:07 Mary Siegrist GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "RED"
64 38:07 6:08 Elizabeth Kelly GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "WHITE"
70 38:53 6:16 Laura Hayden GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "WHITE"
80 39:45 6:24 Katie Famous GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "WHITE"
92 40:43 6:33 Kathryn Fobert GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "BLACK"
120 42:55 4 6:54 Carrie Golden GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "WHITE"
199 45:43 7:21 Allison Curran GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "BLACK"
4696 1:55:49 18:02 Sandy Miller GREATER BOSTON TRACK CLUB - "BLACK"
4752 finishers

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Greater Boston Men's team at Topsfield

Mike Panas, Jim Croke, Ryan Kerrigan, Dan Hall, Dan Smith, Junyon Pak, Coach Tom Derderian
photo by Roger Perham

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Keep your Eyes on the Pies

Top women at Topsfield, Sloan Siegrist, Caitlin Clark, SISU, Allison McCabe, Gretchen Chick, Jen Lee selected Blueberry and Apple pies as their prize.
photo by Roger Perham

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