Women Win Relay 1,2,3,

Lead off leg Hannah Hastings hands off to Katie Fobert

GBTC's women won Lou's 4x1600m relay at Boston University today.
Relay results including splits are here.
Full results are here.
More photos by GreaterSnap are here and below.

Fobert hands off to Deanna Clark
Clark hands off to Allison McCabe

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BU Indoor Development meet #1

Katie Famous races her first mile of the season before jetting off to visit the family in Oregon.
photo by GreaterSnap

It was exciting to see Dan and Matt in the mile.

Full results are here. GBTC results are below.

Racing an 800 may be like a wrestling match as Josh Seeherman leads you to imagine.
photo by GreaterSnap

Boston University Meet 12/20/2008

200 Meter Dash
4 cahill, david 23.80
3 obrien, sarah 26.90
1 nelson, alissa 27.00
2 kloiber, charstine 27.50

400 Meter Dash
1 cahill, david 50.80
2 nelson, alissa 59.80
1 obrien, sarah 59.60
2 kloiber, christine 1:01.00

1 Mile Run
4 haringa, mathew 4:25.10
5 smith, dan 4:25.50
4 blouin, john 4:42.20
5 famous, Katie 5:30.70

800 Meter Run
1 schiller, matt 2:01.80
5 seeherman, joshua 2:07.90

3000m run
6 wommack, andrew 8:50.40
12 papadopoulos, giannis 9:07.90
17 warrington, peter 10:19.80

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Big Effort at Club Championships

Meghan Lynch holds her cold hurting head after her race in the Club Nationals in blowing snow and sub-zero wind chill.
Allison McCabe is too cold to pull on her warm up pants.
photos by GreaterSnap

Scenes from the 2008 USATF National Club Cross Country Championships in Spokane, Washington on Saturday, Dec. 13.

More photos by GreaterSnap are here.
More photos by Mike Scott are here.

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Multiple Wins at Harvard Open

Turning indoors, GBTC enjoyed three wins across the sprints at yesterday's Harvard Open held at Gordon Track. Hector Cotto's excellent performance in the 60M hurdles in 7.83s obliterates the club's previous record of 8.32s by Hassan Wajd (2003). Full results are here, and marks achieved by club members are listed below.

Next up on the club's schedule are Boston University's trifecta of Mini Meets.

Harvard Open Track Meet - 12/13/2008
Event 2 Men 60 Meter Dash, Prelims
 1 Greigre, Hafiz 7.00q 3
 17 Hellevik, Alf 7.31 6
 70 Kelly, Daniel 8.56 5
Event 2 Men 60 Meter Dash, Finals
 2 Greigre, Hafiz 6.95 1
Event 3 Women 60 Meter Hurdles, Prelims
 18 Harrington, Sydney 10.30 2
Event 4 Men 60 Meter Hurdles, Prelims
 1 Cotto, Hector 7.91q 1
Event 4 Men 60 Meter Hurdles, Finals
 1 Cotto, Hector 7.83 1
Event 5 Women 5000 Meter Run
 4 Ovanin, Jane-Marie 18:07.54
Event 14 Men 800 Meter Run
 8 Tirella, Christian 1:59.88
 13 Cronin, Brian 2:03.22
 40 Guida, Andrew 2:17.79
Event 15 Women 200 Meter Dash
 1 Pierre-Louis, Josette 25.67 1
 44 Harrington, Sydney 29.52 9
Event 16 Men 200 Meter Dash
 1 Greigre, Hafiz 21.69 1

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Cross-country runners survive sub-zero wind chill

Start of the women's race into the teeth of the wind.

The cold front blew down from Canada at 22 degrees F, carrying blowing snow into the faces of GBTC runners in the USATF National Club XC Championships at Plantes Ferry Park in Spokane, Washington. The women’s team placed 13th, led by Sara Donohue. The men were led by Jim Emord.


Gretchen Chick, too cold to smile.

The conditions were the most extreme in the history of this meet. Sara Donahue fell and banged her head on some ice, leaving a noticeable lump. Junyong Pak’s eyelashes froze together so he couldn’t blink. Gretchen Chick tried to smile for photos, but her face was too cold. The running didn’t stop when the race ended, because everybody rushed back to the vans to escape the sub-zero wind chill. The team is looking forward to indoor track. Come to the holiday party to hear more tales.



Dan Smith and Matt Haringa.

Results will be available at the race website.

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Hello from Spokane

The GBTC men and women have arrived in Spokane for the USATF Cross Country Club Championships. The snow is falling and the temperature is getting low. We previewed the course today, and it looks like it's going to be messy. Women race tomorrow at 12:45p and men at 1:30p (Pacific time).

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Big Man in First Indoor Meet

Rich Harrison waiting to put.
Photo by GreaterSnap
Thrower Back in Action


Big man, Rich Harrison, finished 3rd last night in the shotput at 16.75m (54' 11.5" in the season's first indoor meet. He has had no meets for many months, but the indoor season is now upon us.

In other action runners Sara Donahue ran her personal best winning the 5 km in 16:51.04, with Meghan Lynch following in 18:09:36. Allison McCabe ran second in the 3km in 10:07:36. Those three and two other women will compose the GBTC team going to Spokane, WA for the club cross-country nationals next Saturday.

Hafiz Greigre won the 200 in 21.86 and Hector Coto won the 55 meter hurdles in 7.42. Many, many more club members competed in the meet.

Dan Smith and Junyong Pak, who are on the GBTC men's team going to Spokane, placed 3rd and 5th in the 5 km, Junyong recording a new PR.

Full results here.


Ryan Eckel (left) provided the new Puma uniforms modeled here by Matt Haringa, Dan Smith and Junyong Pak. photo by GreaterSnap

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