Mayor Cup 2008, teams 5th and 8th

Emily Kroshus flies over the course at Mayor's Cup.
Photo by GreaterSnap

Storm clouds broke and blew away allowing the sun to light perfect fall foliage for the 19th Annual Mayor's Cup. Emily Kroshus led the club to 5th in the women's race with the club's third fastest time for Mayor's Cup, one second behind Johanna Veltri's time in 1997 and two seconds behind the 18:02 that Gretchen Chick and Allison McCabe ran last year. The soggy ground made the effort somewhat harder, but the course conditions were no where near as slow as they have been. With Megan Lynch out because of a sudden onset of stomach pains that led her to the emergency room and doctors to worry about appendicitis, Hannah Hastings rose up to cover 5th place. In the wee hours of the morning Megan found out that she did not have to undergo an operation but needed medication to combat what is euphemistically called "stomach flu."

Women's Championship
1 16:08 5:11 Mary Cullen REEBOK
19 18:04 5:48 Emily Kroshus GREATER BOSTON TC
23 18:15 5:52 Allison McCabe GREATER BOSTON TC
27 18:31 5:57 Gretchen Chick GREATER BOSTON TC
38 18:45 6:01 Jen Lee GREATER BOSTON TC
65 19:59 6:25 Hannah Hastings GREATER BOSTON TC
66 20:02 6:26 Katie Famous GREATER BOSTON TC
69 20:16 6:30 Tara Vance GREATER BOSTON TC
84 finishers

Dan Smith digs deep for every second.
Photo by GreaterSnap

The men placed 8th with Kibrom Temelso leading the club. The men and women will next travel to the Bad Boy in Van Cordlandt Park in the Bronx, NYC next Saturday and the New England Championships the week later back in Franklin Park with the women racing 6 km and men racing 10 km. That race is the team's qualifier for the National Club Cross-country Championship in Spokane, WA in December.

Men's Championship
1 23:54 4:51 Jacob Korir RIADHA
24 25:08 5:05 Kibrom Temelso GREATER BOSTON TC
41 25:38 5:12 Kevin Somers GREATER BOSTON TC
68 26:15 5:19 Dan Smith GREATER BOSTON TC
92 26:53 5:27 Robet Espinosa GREATER BOSTON TC
95 26:56 5:27 Ryan Eckel GREATER BOSTON TC
103 27:05 5:29 Junyong Pak GREATER BOSTON TC
104 27:07 5:30 Tomoaki Uchiki GREATER BOSTON TC
105 27:08 5:30 Eric Mendoza GREATER BOSTON TC
136 28:03 5:41 Edward Breen GREATER BOSTON TC
167 finishers

Full results are here.

The Franklin Park 5 km, a people's race where the GBTC "JV" teams placed first women and men 4th

1. GREATER BOSTON TC
1 2 4 (5) (14) (19) (25) = 7
Deanna Clark, Kristin Schleicher, Sarah O'Brien, Jessica Klett,
Cynthia Hastings, Tessa Clare, Mithu Lahiri

4. GREATER BOSTON TC
14 16 17 (18) (23) (26) (36) = 47
Matt Schiller, Michael Guarascio, Max White, Josh Seeherman, Joel
Bargmann, Tom Derderian, Jon Berit