Shoemaker loses shoe and Anderson wins as easy as pie at the Topsfield XC

Jarrod Shoemaker's old spike shoes failed him with the plate breaking around a spike so every step painfully drove it up into his foot. He found it less painful to rip off the shoe and run the last half mile with a bare foot.
photos by GreaterSnap

The Greater Boston Track Club and its partners, Puma, and Darn Tough Socks, offered prizes of fresh-baked pies for the top 13 women and men in each race, a dozen pair of socks for each race and a total of $2,000 in prize money to the top five teams in each race. Fortunately for the club treasury the home team won both races. But the women's team from the Philadelphia Track Club won $300 for second place and three pies that they report did not survive the ride back to the City of Sisterly Love.

The GBTC's intention in hosting this race is to boost the quality and frequency of post-college team cross-country competition in New England and increase the number of club teams in the New England USATF Cross-country Grand Prix.

In the women's race Clair Duncan of the Philly TC took an early lead but Riadha's Kristin Anderson hung back waiting. Later she took a small lead and seemed to hold it with ease as she smiled her way across the finish. Merry Placer who has moved to Boston after completing her degrees and racing for Wake Forest took third. In the men's race GBTC's Ryan Place took off after last year's winner Jarrod Shoemaker over the tough, hilly and at times muddy course in Bradley-Palmer State Park. The course loops up over the crest of Moon Hill, a lovely field atop a cruel hill in the middle of an autumnal forest, then swoops down over some slick mud in a dark woods. BAA's Matt Carter and GBTC's Dan Smith agonizingly sprinted the last meters to finish in the same second.

Full results below. More photos:
by Kristen Kozlosky
by Kristen Wainwrights
by GreaterSnap

Kristin Anderson shovels in her well-earned Strawberry-rhubarb pie surrounded by her Riadha teammates. Liz Grudzinski smiles and Dennis Wolff looms over the proceedings.

Women 5k Team results

1 Greater Boston Track Club (GBTC)
2, 3, 5, 6, 7, (9), (10) = 23
2 Philadelphia Track Club (PTC)
1, 4, 8, 11, 12 = 36

Women 5k Individual Results

1 Kristin Anderson RIADHA 18:11
2 Clair Duncan PTC 18:17 1
3 Merry Placer GBTC 18:48 2
4 Allison McCabe GBTC 18:54 3
5 Kate Reese PTC 18:55 4
6 Amelia Bishop GBTC 18:58 5
7 Gretchen Chick GBTC 19:13 6
8 Caitlyn Clark SISU 19:18
9 Jane Ovanin GBTC 19:18 7
10 Liza Grudzinski RIADHA 19:21
11 Erin Fisher PTC 19:22 8
12 Anna Novick GBTC 19:28 9
13 Jen Lee GBTC 19:29 10
14 Heidi Bretscher PTC 19:37 11
15 Scarlett Graham GBTC 19:39
16 Erin Kimm PTC 20:01 12
17 Julie Collins SISU 20:34
18 Hannah Hastings GBTC 21:04
19 Adrienne Cyrulik NETT 21:45
20 Annie Morgan GBTC 21:55
21 Laura Rudd SISU 21:58
22 Jenny Thomas GBTC 21:59
23 Jessey Campbell 22:01
24 Mary Smith NETT 22:12
25 Amanda Maffei 23:02
26 Kristina Stone SISU 23:03
27 Barbara Bell BAA 23:21
28 Jess Walden NETT 23:40
29 Tina Wang NETT 24:01
30 Cynthia Hastings GBTC 26:53
31 Maria Klein CSU 30:30

Men 8k Team results

1 Greater Boston Track Club (GBTC)
2, 3, 9, 11, 13, (16), (21) = 38
2 Boston Athletic Association (BAA)
1, 4, 7, 15, 28, (30), (34) = 55
3 Central Mass Striders (CMS)
6, 8, 14, 17, 18, (19), (22) = 63
4 SISU
5, 10, 12, 25, 26 = 78
5 Greater Lowell Road Runners (GLRR)
20, 24 ,29, 31, 35 = 139
6 New England Track and Trail (NETT)
23, 27, 32, 33, 36 = 151

Men 8k Individual Results

Place Name Club Time Score
1 Jarrod Shoemaker BAA 25:48 1
2 Ryan Place GBTC 25:53 2
3 Dan Smith GBTC 26:17 3
4 Matt Carter BAA 26:17 4
5 Mike Griffin SISU 26:26 5
6 Jim Johnson CMS 26:32 6
7 Peter Mallet 26:47
8 Kevin Gallagher BAA 26:57 7
9 Kevin Tilton CMS 26:57 8
10 Matt Haringa GBTC 27:18 9
11 Ryan Miller SISU 27:27 10
12 Dennis Wolff RIADHA 27:31
13 Junyong Pak GBTC 27:33 11
14 Matt Germain SISU 27:37 12
15 Rob Espinosa GBTC 27:42 13
16 Dan Navaroli CMS 27:45 14
17 Josh Gordon BAA 28:00 15
18 Dan Lounsbury NBB 28:32
19 Ryan Eckel GBTC 28:32 16
20 Jim Pawlicki CMS 28:35 17
21 Dan Verrington CMS 28:49 18
22 Dave Harper CMS 29:01 19
23 John Barbour GLRR 29:10 20
24 Doug Chick GBTC 29:16 21
25 Dave Dunham CMS 29:17 22
26 Dave Hannon NETT 29:17 23
27 Dave Quintal CMS 29:31
28 Bruce Davie GBTC 29:41
29 Mark Reeder GLRR 29:56 24
30 Eric Mendoza GBTC 30:03
31 Jamie Aubuchon SISU 30:05 25
32 Steve Bartholomew SISU 30:10 26
33 Ben Gray NETT 30:17 27
34 Mark Bell BAA 30:29 28
35 Adam Harder GBTC 30:36
36 Peter Lagoy GLRR 31:01 29
37 Scott Bosworth GBTC 31:10
38 John Barrett BAA 31:30 30
39 John Ethington 31:47
40 Brian Beaulieu GBTC 31:52
41 Mick McHugh CSU 31:54
42 Andrew Bianchieri GLRR 32:06 31
43 Frank Kjarnsgard NETT 32:20 32
44 Ben Winther NETT 32:33 33
45 Dave Menard BAA 32:36 34
46 Brian Hare GBTC 32:39
47 Phil Riley GLRR 32:47 35
48 Jon Granger NETT 33:05 36
49 Bruce Bond GBTC 34:04
50 Joel Bargmann GBTC 34:14
51 Ken Ross GBTC 34:18
52 Christopher Stowe SISU 36:06
53 Chris Smith NETT 37:36
54 Chris Dwyer GBTC 37:48