Boston University Development Meet #3

Allison McCabe and her pursuers in the mile. Photo by Bruce Davie

More photos: http://www.employees.org/~bsd/BU_3/
Dave Cahill set a personal best in the 800.
Josh Seeherman set a personal best in the mile
Carrie Golden set a personal best in the 3,000

200
Taylor, Dacia 24.92
Kloiber, Christine 27.08
Michael Servizio 27.15
Dan Kelly 28.11
Lawson, Sarah 29.15

400
O'Brien, Sara 1:00.01
Kloiber, Christen 1:01.13
Michael Servizio 1:03.41
Barnaby, Victoria 1:06.34

800
Cahill, David 1:56.86
Ted Breen 2:03.28
Jim Watts 2:03.77
McCabe, Allison 2:20.24
Barnaby, Victoria 2:38.65

Mile
Breen, Edward 4:27.45
Smith, Dan 4:41.15
Seeherman, Joshua 4:44.37
Newsham, Bill 5:00.28
McCabe, Allison 5:07.39
Siegrist, Mary Sloan 5:10.11
Occean, Carolyn 5:13.77
Slaymaker, Sarah 5:27.32
Derderian, Tom 5:49.57

3,000
Sommer, Kevin 8:57.71
Davie, Bruce 9:21.48
Feldman, Will 9:41.80
Hare, Brian 10:18.59
Golden, Carrie 10:59.63
Bargmann, Joe 11:03.62
Derderian, Tom 11:33.27

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Boston Universtiy Development Meet #2

Katie Famous and Carrie Golden again set personal bests.
Deanna Clark looked terrific winning her section with Sarah OBrien in hot pursuit.
Rob Espinosa popped under 4:40 as he planned.
Cahill posted the fastest 400 time of anyone from any club, then came back to entertain the crowd with a thrilling 800 stagger to the FAT.
full results: http://www.bu.edu/track/2008/Indoor%20Track/Mini%20Meets/Minimeetshome.htm

200
Wayne Burwell 22.98
Chris McConnell 25.81
Christen Kloiber 27.68
Sarah Lawson 29.03

Mile
Robert Espinosa 4:38.38
Josh Seeherman 4:45.68
Will Feldman 5:03.36
Sarad Tomlinson 5:08.24
Mary Siegrist 5:10.83
Katie Famous 5:16.77
Carrie Golden 5:29.36
Tom Derderian 5:43.60

400
David Cahill 50.52
Wayne Burwell 54.46
Chris McConnell 59.43
Christen Kloiber 1:00.70
Katie Hammond 1:03.18
Victoria Barnaby 1:05.74

800
David Cahill 2:00.76
Jim Watts 2:02.71
Josh Seeherman 2:06.49
Robert Espinosa 2:08.74
Bill Newsham 2:11.37
Deanna Clark 2:25.76
Sara OBrien 2:26.43
Victoria Barnaby 2:32.34

3,000

Dan Smith 9:09.50
Will Feldman 9:50.02
Katie Fobert 10:58.08
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Boston University Development Meet #1

GBTC only results for the Boston University Development meet on December 15.

full results: http://www.bu.edu/track/2008/Indoor%20Track/Mini%20Meets/Results_first.htm
200
Wayne Burwell 22.77
Helal Syed 24.38
Chris McConnell, 26.67
Michael Servizio, 27.73
Christine Kloiber 28.21
Sarah Lawson 29.85
400
Matt Schiller 51.09
Wayne Burwell 51.10
Dacia Taylor, 57.93
Chris McConnell, 1:00.22
Christine Kloiber 1:01.08
800
David Cahill 1:59.99
Matt Schiller, 2:03.14
Robert Espinosa 2:06.81
Elizabeth Eiseman 2:23.64
Allison Curran 2:46.97
Mile
Robert Espinosa 4:41.39
David Cahill 4:43.21
Dan Smith 4:45.49
William Newsham 4:45.52
Brian Hare 5:29.65
Joel Bargmann 5:30.06
Ronnesia Gaskins 5:33.89
Deanna Clark 5:34.43
Carrie Golden 5:35.27
3000
Giannis Papadopoulos 9:12.27
Dan Smith, 9:17.29
Kevin Somers 9:18.01
Brian Hare 10:10.86
Katie Famous 10:29.05
Jessica Blake 10:45.6
Joel Bargmann 11:00.53
Tom Derderian 11:46.44

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Jen Hawkes Sets Club HJ Record

Josh Seeherman reports:

At the Smith Invitational on December 8^th, Jen Hawkes had a breakthrough set of jumps clearing 5’9” / 1.75m, which breaks her old club record by a fantastic 2 inches. Still the school record holder in the high jump at Mount Holyoke College, Jen reports that she actually had a very good attempt at 5’10” as well.

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A couple of photos of the National x-c in West Chester , Ohio

Not since the wild buffaloes thundered over the plains has such a ferocious herd pounded the snowy grass lands to muck.



The largest field in a national x-c Championships ever, 50 teams!
Sloan Siegrist kicking for the finish with the rest of the muddy ladies.
Photos thanks to RunOhio, Chuck Bartlet and Matt McGowan

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Flash Results from Club XC Champs

Just in from the muddy fields of southern Ohio, GBTC's women finish a sweet 16th while the men finish 39th at the 2007 USATF National Club Cross Country Championships. Allison McCabe and Matthew Haringa were our team leaders. This race features the top clubs from across the United States as they vie for honors and bragging rights as the nation's top cross country team. Coach Tom and Bill Newsham churned up the mud pit before the Open races. Details to come after a good scrubbing.

Masters Men's 10 km;
Men 40-44
93 finishers
65 Bill Newsham, 42, Brookline, NH 39:23.9
Men 55-59
27 finishers
18 Tom Derderian, 58, Winthrop, MA 44:33.9

Open Women's 6 km
32 scoring teams, 234 Finishers
16. Greater Boston T C

31 Allison McCabe, 25, Reading, MA 21:51.2
39 Jennifer Lee, 25, Cambridge, MA 21:55.3
98 Marian Bihrle, 24, Belmont, MA 22:52.6
102 Elizabeth Kelly, 23, Cambridge, MA 22:57.1
119 Mary Siegrist, 27, Cambridge, MA 23:16.3
136 Emily Raymond, 25, Medford, MA 23:50.3

Total Time = 1:52:52.3 Total Places = 389
Average Time = 22:34.5 Spread = 1:25.2

Open Men's 10 km
50 Scoring Teams, 422 Finishers
39. Greater Boston T C

201 Matthew Haringa, 24, Brighton, MA 36:17.5
221 Junyong Pak, 29, Beverly, MA 36:40.7
222 Mark Tompkins, 32, Williamsburg, VA 36:41.6
230 Edward Breen, 26, Medford, MA 36:50.2
252 Ryan Aschbrenner, 30, Waltham, MA 37:14.8

Total Time = 3:03:44.7 Total Places = 1126
Average Time = 36:45.0 Spread = 0:57.3

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GBTC Team set for National x-c Championships.

BTC teams for National x-c in Ohio on Dec 8th
Here is a list of the GBTC athletes for the nationals
Ted Breen, ran at UMass in Amherst, many National teams
Junyong Pak, at Tulane and HS in New Jersey
Mark Tompkins, was on the GBTC national team in 1999 that placed 11th
Matt Haringa, ran at RPI
Ryan Aschbrenner, ran his first marathon in October

Jen Lee, Harvard and GBTC team last year
Sloan Siegrist, Guam Olympic team, and on the GBTC team for many years
Marian Bihrle, Princeton, first year with GBTC
Allison McCabe, UConn, and first year at Nat x-c
Emily Raymond, Brigham Young, and team leader in San Francisco last year
Liz Kelly, Smith College, on the team last year, great mud runner

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Sara Donahue qualifies for Olympic Trials

Sara Donahue in action at the Tufts 10 km in early October photo by Ted Tyler
2:43:43 personal best!

I got these quotations from Sara Donahue just before she grabbed a red-eye to get back to Boston in time for classes on Monday after her brilliant marathon where she easily qualified for the Olympic Trials at the California International Marathon in Sacramento, CA on Sunday, Dec 2.
"What a fun day. The weather was great through there was a bit of wind
on several of the long straight-aways. There were a lot of women
trying to make the qualifying time and we broke into a few packs at
the start. I met up with a girl from Minneapolis at the start (named
Nicole, not sure her last name or even much of her story!) and we ran
together for 21 miles or so. We worked together really well -- we ran
in a group for about the first 16 miles and then we split off and ran
together for the next 5." [the runner was NICOLE CUENO who ran at Grinnell College and placed 2nd in 2:42:03]

Katie Wasilenko, Sara's brother and others provided partisan cheers along the way that bolstered Sara's spirits


"We were trying to go around 6:18 pace but the
splits were in a pretty big range. We heard we were in 6/7th
place around mile 17 which was exciting. Nicole kept picking up the
pace, and she zoomed off at about mile 21."


Last year Sara ran 2:51:56 while she attended grad school in Seattle. She is now back in Boston working on a doctorate in public health.

6 SARA DONAHUE 27 01:22:20 02:43:43 06:14

Also former GBTC member, Mega Doshi, who is in grad school in California ran a big personal best, of 2:52:35.

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McCabe sets 3km Personal Best

It is a funny thing to use an indoor track meet to sharpen for a outdoor cross-country race but we live in Boston and it is December, and the nationals are in southern Ohio on Dec 8th, so one copes.

In the women's 3000 meter run at the Northeastern University Husky meet on Dec 1 Allison McCabe ran 9:53.59 setting a personal best by 8 seconds showing that she is in the best shape of her life and ready for the National Championships


Sloan Siegrist ran 18:01.42 in the 5 km to sharpen up. GBTC is sending its finest women's team, ever.

Many other fine early-season club performances for full results:
http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Dec1_2007Hu_set1.shtml

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