Slip Sliding in Derry

The January 16 mile race in Derry, NH is known as the "Boston Prep 16 miler." Supposedly its arrangement of hills is good preparation for the Boston marathon. Well, if Patriots' Day brings a snowstorm to Boston this April, several GBTC members will be well prepared. An inch of snow had fallen by race time, and the local roads of Derry on which this race takes place were in no danger of getting plowed or even cleared by passing cars. Temperatures were steady in the mid 20s - not bad racing weather really, although again perhaps not the best prep for Boston - and snow fell throughout the race. On the uphills and flats it was often hard to make good forward progress, while downhills and corners presented ample opportunity to wipe out. The hills were certainly good preparation for something - next cross country season perhaps.

GBTC results follow.
13th Boston Prep 16miler
Derry, NH, January 27, 2008
1 FREDERICK ROUNTREE 1:33:36 5:51
10 TOMOAKI UCHIKI 1:40:09 6:16
14 DAN HALL 1:42:13 6:24
16 BRUCE DAVIE 1:43:07 6:27 (2nd master)
40 BRIAN HARE 1:50:36 6:55 (8th master)

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Make that Five New Records

This GBTC team won the DMR in the Terrier on Saturday breaking the old
club DMR record
*McCabe, O'Brien, Hayden, Raymond, 11:59.64, BU Terrier Classic
1/26-27/07 (3:39, 58, 2:18, 5:04)

1 G.B.T.C. 'A' 11:58.29
1) Jen Lee 2) O'Brien, Sara
3) Laura Hayden 4) Allison McCabe

Appx splits, 3:44, ?, 2:17, 4:55.

The "B" team placed 5th with a furious 1200 by Ronnesia Gaskins, zippy 400 by Christine Kloiber, great 800 by Deanna Clark, and essentially a personal best 1600 by Gretchen Chick.

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GBTC Women Rumble at Terrier

The GBTC ladies were out in force and posted a whole slew of excellent times as well as four club records . . . . a few examples below

Dacia Taylor set two club records with 2 PR's - 55m (7.21) and 200m (24.82).
Laura Hayden improved on her mile time from last week by six full seconds (5:08)
Caroline Occean set a club record in the 1000 (2:56.50)
Alison McCabe set a club record in the 3K (9:50.90) - Gretchen Chick also broke 10 minutes (9:57)
and finally both Katie Famous (17:34) and Liz Kelly (17:48) PR'd in the 5K. Research revealed that this was in the vicinity of a 30 second PR for The Famous One.

Full results at coolrunning

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Video of Three Events at GBTC meet

Thanks to our friend, Ryan Fenton of New Balance Boston, here are links to the video he shot for Flotrack.

Women's 800m
Women's Mile
Men's Mile

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GBTC Invitational Seeded Afternoon Sections

Please plan ahead, and check the meet schedule for your event.

Elite Massage GBTC Invitational Hurdle Finals

1:35pm Men's 60mHH

1:45pm Women's 60mHH

2:25pm Accelerade Invitational
Women’s Mile
Jennifer Donovan
Melissa Sherman
Allison McCabe
Kristen Coon
Jennifer Lee
Laura Hayden
Caitlyn Clark
Sarah Crispin
Caroline Occean
Laura Kennedy
Gretchen Chick
Liz Crowley

2:35pm Accelerade Invitational
Men’s Mile
Mark Miller
Rolland Lavallee
Jeff Caron
Erik Nedeau
Joey DeWitt
Stephan Ramirez
Rex Radloff
Sintayehu Taye
Andie Colon
Aaron Lozier

2:45pm GBTC Invitational
Women’s 400m - 1 Section
Zoey Russell
Chrissy Supino
Shana Clark
Christine Kloiber
Rebecca Ciccarelli

2:55pm GBTC Invitational
Men’s 400m - 1 Section
Kobie Fuller
Kamar Eillis
Christian Tirella
Nicholas Graham
Lamar Johnson
Stafford McFarlane

3:05pm GBTC Invitational
Women’s 200m - 2 Sections
Section One
Amandi Rhett
Marie Ann Francis
Akeisha Dumont
Jordine Kimbrel
Dacia Taylor
Section Two
Jessica Greenaway
Josette Pierre-Louis
Hillary Higgs
Monet Brathwaite
Caronda Bond

3:15pm GBTC Invitational
Men’s 200m - 2 Sections
Section One
Dwight Mullings
Patrick Horne
Eddie Bynum
Hugh Reid
Kevin Bowen
Section Two
Demetrius Pinder
Windell Wallace
Mark Johnson
Leon Thompson
Jeffrey Smith - Scratch

3:25pm DirectAthletics.Org Invitational
Men’s 800m
Alex Mason
Aaron Lozier
Dan Darcy
Daniel Wang
David Cahill
Angus MacDonald
Matt Schiller
Mike Toomey

3:30pm DirectAthletics.Org Invitational
Women’s 800m
Jen Toomey
Joan Bohlke
Vanessa Mazandi
Catherine Regan
Danielle Moore
Jessica Groth
Barbara Powell

3:40pm GBTC Invitational
Men’s 3000m
Steven DeWitt
Ruben Sanca
Paolo Natali
Matt Pelletier
Erik Nedeau
Andrew Allstadt
Stephan Ramirez
Mark Mayall
Scott Bessette
Terry Shea
David Bedoya
Kevin Somers
Matthew Germain

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GBTC Invitational Preview

by GBTC Coach Dave Callum.

In the invitational 800, topping the list,
Jen Toomey is a national record holder over
1000meters, a 4th place finish at world’s in 2004 and
is a combined 3-time USATF National champion in the
800 and 1500! Alex Mason, a member of the West Valley
Track Club, ran 1:54 last year at this meet, but
1:50.88 last spring at the Oxy Invite and tops the
entries in the 800. In the men’s mile, several local
athletes will be working to break the 4:10 barrier,
leading the field Mark Miller of BAA will fight off
New Balance athletes Jeff Caron, Erik Nedeau and
Roland Lavallee, while high school standout Sintayehu
Taye from Cushing Academy ran 1:55 last year, and has
run 4:12, will get in the mix as he prepares for the
Boston Indoor Games mile.

Amy Parkosewich entered with her 20.00 meters in the
weight throw was 6th at indoor USATF nationals in 2007
while Chris Bryce with his 19.50m was 10th at
nationals last year. Northeastern Junior Nate Hunter
heads a shot put field with 17.25m. Greater Boston
TC's own Matt Chisam, a Junior National All-American
Decathlete back in 2001 during his UC Davis days and
ranked 15th in the US in 2007, a Harvard Assistant
Coach now, will continue his prep work in the shot
put, pole vault and long jump, and return for a club
4x4 relay.

UMass Lowell’s Ruben Sanca and Steven DeWitt will try
to run away in the invite 3k with Paolo Natali in
chase, can they break 8:20? Manchester, NH native
Joanne Dow, 3-time US Outdoor champion and 5-time US
Indoor champ, as well as 2003 Pan Am bronze medalist,
tops the racewalkers field. She was the 2006 and 2007
invite event winner.

In the women’s dash, local Northeastern star, Jordine
Kimbrel, takes on Georgia Tech all-american
representing the United Stars TC Amandi Rhett who is a
2007 indoor usatf national semi-finalist in the 60m
dash. GBTC’s own Dacia Taylor will be in the mix,
after posting a 7.64 at the Dartmouth Relays. The
three ladies will have their work cut out for them in
the invite 200 where they will be joined by Essex
Community College athletes. Rhode Island resident
Colin Aina, ranked 10th US indoors over 55m hurdles in
2007, heads the field.

-Dave Callum

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Meet Update

Folks,

All entries have closed. The Games Committee and myself will be selecting the top athletes for the afternoon sections Friday/Saturday and will be posting to this blog sometime on Saturday afternoon.

Thanks for all of your entries and dealing with the quirks of directathletics as we moved almost entirely away from cumbersome paper entries.

Please bring a copy of the signed waiver to Harvard on Sunday morning to make the registration process faster. If you have paid on PayPal, please also bring a copy of your receipt of payment.

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GBTC Invitational is coming

Sherita Williams set a meet and facility record in the triple jump at the GBTC Invitational meet in 2006


The GBTC Invitational Track Meet will take place at the Harvard University track in Allston, MA, on Sunday January 20. Entry details and meet program are available at the GBTC website. Watch this space for the latest information, including details of the seeded Invitational events.

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Lou's 4x1600 relay

On December 29th 2007 GBTC fielded four teams in the Lou's Relay indoor finale to the last development meet.
Most people had run events earlier in the meet.
I had fun being on the team with David Callum.

The women's team won and Allison posted the fastest women's time of the day.

Gr.Boston TC Women (#9) 21:55.84 Women - 1
Ronnesia Gaskins 5:25.67
Katie Fobert 5:43.73
Jess Blake 5:31.51
Allison McCabe 5:14.93 *** Fastest Female leg

Gr.Boston TC Older Men (#6) 21:17.94
Bill Newsham 5:02.58
Brian Hare 5:33.82
Joel Bargman 5:45.85
Bruce Davie 4:55.69

Gr.Boston TC Red/Black (#10) 19:42.91
Dan Smith 4:47.34
Aaron Binkley 5:02.00
Rod Hemingway 5:02.88
John Raguin 4:50.69

Gr.Boston TC Co-Ed (#12) 21:56.11
David Callum 5:15.76
Sara O'Brien 5:39.32
Tom Derderian 6:00.81
David Cahill 5:00.22

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