Millrose Games

At the 102nd Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden: GBTC's Hector Cotto goes 7.72s in the 60m hurdles, for third place and further improving his place of permanence in the club's record books. Cotto exceeded TrackShark's expectations of him in its "fantasy league preview" of the games. Photos of the event are available via AP Photo, Flotrack and USATF, as is a video by Greg. The Millrose Games is the oldest invitational indoor track-and-field meet in America. 

Update: Hector's excellent performance at Millrose ranks him as 22nd in the world for 2009 thus far (IAAF rank).

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New Club Indoor 4x400 Record at Terrier

The Frolicking women's DMR team is supporting Jen Lee with Allison McCabe at the foot, Deanna Clark at the shin, and Christine Kloiber bearing the center of gravity.
The Happy Men Record breaking DMR Team
photos by GreaterSnap

1/24/09 Boston University Terrier Classic.
The GBTC team (l-r) of Christian Terella, Dave Cahill, Joe Brennan, Hafiz Greigre broke the old record 3:18.75 set by Collins, Reynolds, Cahill, Dilday - St. Valentine's (BU), 2001 (50.6, 49.5, 50.1, 48.5) Their new record is 3:17.70!

Full men's results are here.
Race videos are available at Flotrack.
Hundreds of photos by GreaterSnap are here.
Photos taken by GBTC Founder Jack McDonald are here.
Full meet results are here.

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Meghan Lynch receives Bradley award for 2009

Margaret Bradley award recipient Meghan Lynch is congratulated by award committee members Katie Famous and Laura Hayden, and by GBTC President Bruce Davie. Photo by GreaterSnap

It is our pleasure to recognize Meghan Lynch as the 2009 recipient of the annual Margaret Bradley Award. Meghan is a 2008 graduate of Mt. Holyoke College who is currently working as a clinical research coordinator in Boston. During college, she excelled in the 5K, earning the school record in the indoor 5K in a time of 18:12. Additionally, she notched times of 23:13 (6K) and 38:15 (6 mile). Following graduation, she has quickly become a leading member of the GBTC distance squad. This past December, she finished second for the GBTC women at the frigid Club Cross Country National Championships in Spokane, WA. Impressively, she has lowered all of her PRs in less than a year: 18:09 (5K), 22:36 (6K) and 6 mile (35:08). Meghan is an enthusiastic team player who attributes much of her recent success to having teammates push her both at practice and on race day. At 22 years of age, Meghan looks to have much success in front of her. Her goals include qualifying for the Olympic Trials in the marathon (a goal shared by Margaret) and a 17 minute 5K. Along the way, however, she plans to enjoy working with her teammates to help reach shared goals. Like Margaret, she is enthusiastic, a fierce competitor, and a selfless teammate.

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Eric Ashe wins men's Championship Mile

Eric Ashe, una. won the mile in 4:10 at the GBTC Invitational on Jan 18 on the Harvard Track.

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Photos of the meet

Many club members took photos of the GBTC Invitational on January 18th and posted them here.

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Papadopoulos to Fly in From Greece

Giannis Papadopoulos ran a 6 km championship in Athens, in Nea Smirni, Greece on January 11th. Papadopoulos said, "It was a 6k road race, a race in a grand prix series. The best runners in Greece ran from all distances, from 1.500m. to the marathon. I finished 15th and my time was 18.21. .... I could do better though. The conditions were OK, a bit windy but fine."
Papadopoulos is a graduate student in Journalism at Emerson College in Boston. He will fly back on Jan. 17th to race the 3km in the GBTC Invitational on the 18th.

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BU All-comer #3 Jan 3, 2009

Start of section #10 in the mile at BU on Sat Jan 3, 2009. L-R, GBTC, Kate Klim, Hannah Hastings, Joel Bargmann, Deanna Clark, Katie Famous.
photo by Greatersnap

Full results are here.
I took photos and posted them at GreaterSnap on Flickr.

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