Another Club Record

At the USATF New England Association meet, Matt Chisam broke the existing record in the pole vault with a 4.95m/16-2 clearance. Matt is a national-caliber decathlete and an assistant coach at Harvard, and has been affilated with the club since last spring. Get ready for seeing more excellent results as he pursues the Olympic Trials standard this upcoming outdoor season in the multi-event.

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Women and Wommack Win!

Photo by Ted Tyler

Speedy Andrew Wommack won the Hyannis Half Marathon yesterday and the GBTC women's team won the team prize. All four women will race in the Boston Marathon.

http://capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080225/SPORTS/802250306

FOUR POINTS SHERATON HYANNIS HALF MARATHON
February 24, 2008 Half-Marathon (USATF Certified #MA01001RN) Hyannis, Mass.

1 5:33 1:12:35 Andrew Wommack 24 M GBTC

32 6:26 1:24:11 Marian Bihrle 24 F 2 GBTC

38 1:25:12 6:30 1:25:26 Michael Moyles 28 M GBTC

51 1:26:35 6:37 1:26:36 Tara Vance 25 F GBTC

60 1:28:17 6:44 1:28:18 Kate Klim 24 F GBTC

157 1:35:22 7:17 1:35:23 Carrie Golden 24 F GBTC
full results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/08/ma/Feb24_Hyanni_set6.shtml
1823 finishers
photos by Ted Tyler
Marian Bihrle leads the GBTC women's team to victory



Carrie Golden
Tara Vance Kate Klim in her first GBTC race

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New Women's DMR record at Nationals

photo by Deanna Clark
Allison McCable, Caroline Occean, Sara O'Brien, Jen Lee

At the indoor USATF National Championship the GBTC women's Distance Medley Relay team placed 3rd in an huge new club record.

The old record from earlier in the year set by
*Lee, O'Brien, Hayden, McCabe, 11:58.29, BU Terrier Classic 1/26/08

New Record of 11:41.91

photo by Deanna Clark
Gretchen Chick, Ronnesia Gaskins, Christine Kloiber, Laura Hayden

The Greater Boston Track Club 'B' team ran 12:05.19 coming within 7 seconds of the old record
Laura Hayden, Christine Koiber, Ronnesia Gaskins, and Gretchen Chick


These are the approximate splits for the record setting relay
Jen Lee, 3:37, 1200
Sara O'Brien, 58 400
Caroline Occean, 2:12, 800
Allison McCabe, 4:53 1600

photo courtesy of the Snyder Syndicate
l-r, Ronnesia Gaskins, Allison McCabe, Laura Hayden, Christine Kloiber, Gretchen Chick

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3km action at Harvard in USATF NE Champs

Katie Famous and Liz Kelley battle for points in the 3km in the USATFNE Championships
photo by Junyon Pak
Kevin Somers gives the look to a Harvard runners who dares to pass in the 3km in the New England USATF Championships.
Photo by Junyong Pak

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GBTC Men Win in Amherst

Papadopoulos, Smith, & Breen digging into the big snow-bound hill out of Amherst and into the Shutesbury Hills. Photo by Hattie Derderian
Kibrom Temelso won the race with David Bedoya a few steps behind. Here they are pictured on the mammoth hill at three miles. Over a mile after this hill had to be run on hard-packed snow. GBTC men won the team prize.
photo by Hattie Derderian

1 KIBROM TEMELSO 54:16 5:26 GBTC
2 DAVID BEDOYA 54:26 5:27 GBTC
7 IOANNIS PAPADOPOULOS 56:09 5:37 GBTC
9 BRENNAN BONNER 56:51 5:42 GBTC
11 CHRIS SMITH 57:17 5:44 GBTC
13 EDWARD BREEN 58:37 5:52 GBTC
16 DAN HALL 59:43 5:59 GBTC
20 BRUCE DAVIE 1:00:39 6:04 GBTC
48 BRIAN HARE 1:07:46 6:47 GBTC
59 TOM DERDERIAN 1:11:15 7:08 GBTC
86 CHRISTY BONSTELLE 1:14:29 7:27 GBTC
195 CYNTHIA HASTINGS 1:26:48 8:41 GBTC
312 finishers
full results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/08/ma/Feb24_34thAn_set1.shtml

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Gretchen Chick Mile PR and thrilling anchor on DMR

Photo by Peter Rufo. All photos copyright EliteRunning.com.

Gretchen Chick pictured above in her personal best mile in the Valentine meet on Feb 7th.
She ran 5:01. On the next day she anchored the Distance Medley Relay winning the second section by mere hundredths of a second.

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Great Club running in the Great Stew Chase 15km

David Bedoya and Kibrom Temelso lead the way with Kevin Somers following in his silly hat.
Photo thanks to race director Roger Perham


In very good weather on a moderately hilly course our GBTC runners dominated the Great Stew Chase sweeping the top three places.
The club women took half of the top ten places with 2, 4, 5, 6,& 7.
Many of these men and women will compose the club's teams in the Boston Marathon.
The next major road race for the club will be the Amherst Sugarloaf 10 miler on February 24th. That race, founded by me in 1975, saw Bill Rodgers win and go on to his first victory in Boston two months later.
The 34th Annual Great Stew Chase
Sunday February 3, 2008

1 David Bedoya 49:54
2 Kibrom Temelso 49:55
3 Kevin Somers 51:00
8 Andrew Wommack 52:37
13 Tomoaki Uchiki 54:51
19 Dan Hall 57:19
24 Marian Bihrle 59:12
25 Brian Hare 59:31
30 Christopher Smith 1:00:41
31 Michael Moyles 1:00:43
33 Tara Vance 1:00:51
36 Ken Ross 1:01:34
37 Katie Fobert 1:02:12
41 Carrie Golden 1:03:03
42 Lynn Johnson 1:03:14
49 Tom Derderian 1:04:33

300 runners
Air Tomoaki! Photo by Perham

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