GBTC at Brown

GBTC sprinters, middle distance, hurdlers, jumpers, and throwers were all out in force Sunday at Brown to compete in sunny, 80 degree weather. Check out the women's results here and the men's results here.

It was a meet of season best times. On the women's side, some of the many highlights included: Josette winning the 200 and 3rd in the 100, Tiana winning the 100 hurdles and placing in both the jav and HJ, Toni-Marie winning the triple jump, Stacey throwing for 3rd in the discus, Alissa putting on the new GBTC singlet for the first time, Sarah Lawson starting to heat up for World Masters later this summer, and the hurdlers Sydney, Jess, Christa, and Dee all competing, with Jess running a monster 66.38 400 hurdles.

On the men's side, Hafiz led the way with wins in the 100 (10.94) and 200 (21.36), Rich Harrison was 2nd in the shot, and Andrew ran season bests in the 200/400. For those looking ahead to Club Nationals, also notable was Bryant's Alex Engel going 48.09 and 47. in the 4x4. Alex will join the GBTC 4x4 team this summer as they attempt to take down the club record of 3:12.81. Keep an eye on the blog as that relay develops ...

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Red Shirted Boys Rumble and Ramble at James Joyce

Dan Smith leading the pack with Kevin Somers in the middle. Eventual winner Caron in the white hat and glasses. Ben Schmeckpeper in blue and Dan Mazzocco in yellow shorts.
photo by Paulina Smith

GBTC's Kevin Somers and Dan Smith followed BAA's Ben Schmeckpeper through the mile in 5.04 on an unseasonable warm day. With temperatures reaching the mid 80's unattached Dan Mazzocco and New Balance's Jeff Caron flew by at 1.5 and pushed past Schmeckpeper. Somers and Smith with Schmeckpeper till two miles (10:06) and Smith passed Schmeckpeper at 3 miles up the hills (15.40) Somers fell back. Down the hills Smith gained on Mazzocco and passed him around mile five and tired to get Caron but he had too much of a lead and Smith suffered from the heat. Smith said, "At every water stop I splashed water on my head and 5-seconds later I was hot again."

Andrew Wommack, too tired for subtlety said, "It was hot."

Everyone, including the 60 year-old coach thought team produced a great effort on a hot day. The team is looking strong for the Bedford, NH 12 km New England Grand Pix on May 16th.

26th Anniversary Edition James Joyce Ramble 10K
April 26, 2009 10km Dedham, MA

1 32:31 32:31 5:14 Jeffrey Caron
2 32:47 32:47 5:17 Dan Smith
6 33:41 33:40 5:26 Kevin Somers
8 34:29 34:29 5:33 Andrew Wommack
14 36:07 36:06 5:49 Rob Espinosa
15 36:31 36:31 5:53 Eric Mendoza
141 3/33 46:58 46:57 7:34 Tom Derderian 60 M
324 85/264 51:21 51:19 8:16 Norm Robbie 45 M
1740 finishers

Full results are here. The club women did not field a team.

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Penn Relays Action

GBTC fielded teams in the 4x100 and 4x400 yesterday running 45.26 and 3:28.99 respectively. Kudos to Coach Dave Callum who jumped in the 4x400 after Derek Hebert hurt his hamstring in the 4x1 . . . . Coach managed to drag himself around the track in a 54 without any major blood loss. Christian Tirella ran an excellent anchor leg in 48 & change.

Our resident Penn Relays watch leader, Jim Watts, won another coveted time piece as part of the General Electric corporate DMR team . . . . Jim ran the 800 leg in 2:07.

The Friday events at the Penn Relays featured a world best all time in the women's 4x1500, featuring a sizzling 4:10 anchor leg by Sarah Bowman.

Full results are available at thepennrelays.com

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GBTC at Penn Relays

This year's Penn Relay Olympic Development squad, a men's weekend out. Traveling down to Philadelphia, GBTC's Drew Soltysiak, Christian Tirella, Francis Shen, David Cahill, Derek Hebert and Coach David Callum.

OD meet results and more found HERE.

The 4x1 and 4x4 Relay Squad

Opening action in Event 123 on Friday at 1:25pm, the 4x100 of Dave Cahill to Christian Tirella to Derek Hebert to Francis Shen. With clean unpracticed handoffs, the team finished 15th out of 26, despite our 3rd leg Derek pulling his hamstring in the first 40m, he powered through the curve to handoff to Francis getting the baton around the track.

Between relays, javelin thrower Drew Soltysiak followed up last weekend's Holy Cross PR throw with another 1.5 meter PR, finishing in the Olympic Development medals for third with a very big 65.00 meter (213ft 3in) toss.

With the injury to Derek, team driver-Coach-relay alternate Dave Callum was called up off the bench to run in the 4x400, Event 158 at 6pm. Leading off the squad, David Cahill (52sec) kept the team in the mix with 17 teams on the track at once! Francis Shen (53sec) found himself in limbo on the second leg, but kept his ground for a solid quarter. Coach Dave (54sec) held position through 330m when he lost his transmission off the final turn, one team took advantage and pounced. Christian Tirella used the opportunity to chase himself to a great 48.3 anchor leg (ready to break the 48 boundary). GBTC finished 12th out of the 17 teams for a 3:28.99.

This Penn squad will make their way back to Boston Saturday night after the pros put on a show, but another GBTC squad will hit the track Sunday at Brown University. Atleast twelve women and seven men in 31 events plan to represent GBTC in track and field action, including several members assaulting the record books this year. This group will also include Francis Shen who will make it 2 hurdle races and as many as 3 relays for the weekend.

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Men and Women 4th teams in Boston Marathon

David Bedoya, photo by Paulina Smith

GBTC men's and Women's Open teams each placed fourth in today's Boston Marathon.
Detailed results below.

GBTC Women
Finishing place among women

48, Tara Vance, 2:57:12
93, Mary "Sloan" Palmore 3:03:35
106, Kate Klim, 3:05:32
184, Christy Bonstelle, 3:10:48
239, Kyle MacQueen, 3:13:22
251, Marian Bihrle, 3:13:50
491, Katie Fobert, 3:20:57
645, Amanda Watters, 3:23:56

Team time (top three) 4th place 9:13:32

Finishing place among men
36. David Bedoya, 2:27:13
79. Junyong Pak, 2:33:38
98. Ioannis Papadopoulos, 2:35:21
152. Ryan Aschbrenner, 2:39:14
254, Tomoaki Uchiki, 2:44:37
376. Ryan Kerrigan, 2:48:36
466. Chris Stager, 2:50:50
890. Dan Hall, 256:48
1964, Pete Warrington, 3:06:08
2069. Matthew L. Lyons, 3:06:49
4805, Alexander Sewell, 3:24:13

Team time (top three) 4th place 7:36:12

Masters
Divison places
111, Ken Ross, 3:01:52
547, Scott Bosworth, 3:13:58
1375. Norm Robbie, 3:36:02

50+
670 Tom Whitney, 3:58.41

Click on more for additional photos.



GBTC Fans and Dan Hall at 24 miles photos by Cynthia Hastings

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Sprints Tune Up for Penn Relays at Fitchburg

Above: Derek, Andrew, Lucjan, Francis, and Christian

immediately after the victorious 4x400m relay.

Finally blessed with an (almost) rain-free day, eight sprinters and throwers took to Fitchburg State for a day of season bests. Complete results are available here.

Christian Tirella was man of the meet, dropping a 48.66 in the open 400m and then coming back to run a 48.6 split and stalk down two teams to edge out a win in the 4x400m relay. Fellow 400 runners Lucjan Zaborowski (50.44 for 5th) is rolling into form, as is Derek Hebert (51.35 for 8th) and Andrew (55.98). Derek and Andrew came back to double in the 200m.

Rich Harrison was his usual dominant self in the shot, throwing 17.77m (58-03.75) -- to give some context, the next thrower wasn't farther than 45 feet! Jim Watts was also strong, using a great finish to set a new PR in the 1500m (4:45.87 ). In the hurdles, Sydney Harrington opened up the season with a 17.84, and Francis was 2nd in the 110 hurdles (15.85), and won the 400m hurdles (56.81). The squad now prepares for its first big meet next weekend: Penn Relays!

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GBTC 2009 Boston Marathon Team

Members of GBTC gather for pasta loading before the 2009 Boston Marathon. Photo by GreaterSnap.

GBTC coach Tom Derderian announced the roster for the club's 2009 Boston Marathon Team. The teams will attempt to win the team prizes again. Last year's race provided great drama. The GBTC men ran ahead of the BAA by 12 seconds at 10 km, but the BAA team ran ahead by 19 seconds at the half, at 35 km the GBTC led by 1:34, then in the last miles the BAA burst ahead (or the GBTC team fell behind) for the GBTC team to finish 3rd, 2:18 behind the BAA. The women's team placed 7th last year.

The men's teams and women's team have each won in recent years. The GBTC teams are strong - the "gold standard" of three men at 2:30 and three women at 3:00 could happen.


Men's Open Team
Aschbrenner, Ryan (1156)
Bedoya, David (1037)
Hall, Dan A. (1662)
Kerrigan, Ryan (1862)
Pak, Junyong (1142)
Papadopoulos, Ioannis (1481)
Sewell, Alexander M. (8617)
Uchiki, Tomoaki (2136)
Warrington, Pete C. (2947)

Women's Open Team
Bihrle, Marian M. (8034)
Bonstelle, Christy (5105)
Fobert, Katie A. (8112)
Klim, Kate E. (6691)
MacQueen, Kyle Linn (9121)
Palmore, Mary S. (1986)
Vance, Tara M. (3210)
Watters, Amanda M. (11781)

Men's Masters Team
Bosworth, Scott H. (2369)
Robbie, Norm (12361)
Ross, Ken (2160)
Whitney, Thomas (11112)


The 2008 team results:

Open Men - 3rd - total time: 7:36:55
Bedoya, David 2:27:33
Bonner, Brennan 2:32:18
Pak, Junyong 2:37:04
Papadopoulos, Ioannis 2:47:52
Hall, Dan A. 2:51:20

Open Women - 7th - total time: 9:35:48
Vance, Tara M. 3:02:48
Coughlin, Beth Y. 3:14:34
Klim, Kate E. 3:18:26
Bihrle, Marian M. 3:18:35
Watters, Amanda M. 3:29:19
Masters Men - 35th - total time: 9:31:08
Davie, Bruce 2:49:46
Newsham, William 3:07:48
Whitney, Thomas 3:33:3

Full 2008 team results

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April Showers

Use this map to hunt for GBTC's hidden talent, as it precipitated over the weekend.

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Kate, Kevin and GBTC Teams Win

Kate Klim won $200, a bouquet of flowers, and the admiration of her teammates after leading them to victory in the Cohasset 10 km. Klim with flowers, Jen Lee, Christy Bonstelle, in back, Katie Fobert, Cynthia Hastings.
photo by GreaterSnap

Both Men's and Women's teams won today in the Cohasset 10k.

5  35:48  5:46 Bruce Davie (1st Master)
8  36:09  5:50 Kit Wells
11 36:33  5:53 Brad Kozel
14 37:42  6:05 Max White
19 38:18  6:10 Kate Klim (1st Woman)
22 38:58  6:17 Jennifer Lee (2nd Woman)
39 41:09  6:38 Kathryn Fobert
47 41:59  6:46 Christy Bonstelle
464 52:55 8:31 Cynthia Hastings

Full results

Earlier the same day, Kevin Somers won the Doyle's Emerald Necklace 5 mile race in Jamaica Plain running away from everyone with 5:16 miles.
Results

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Sprinters and Throwers at Fitchburg State

A hearty group of ten GBTC sprinters and throwers competed Saturday in very windy and cold conditions at Fitchburg State. For most, it was the first outdoor meet of the year and a day to shake off the rust. Even so, GBTC came away with 5 first place finishes (M100, M200, W200, W Discus, and M400 IH).

Notable performances included our Discus Duo -- Stacey Connor and Deirdre Murphy -- taking the top two slots in the discus; Hafiz Greigre clocking a 48.53 in the 400m (on a day when running a :48 took :46 second effort) and then winning the 200m in 22.06; Josette Pierre-Louis blazing a 26.66 200m into -4.2 headwinds; Joe Brennan overcoming -2.4 headwinds to clock a 11,74 in the 100m, then taking 3rd in the 200m; and Derek Hebert successfully running his first open 400 in 2 years.

On the veteran front, Dave Cahill opened with a solid 400m, and yours truly started his 16th consecutive year of hurdling with a (slow but steady 58.66) victory in the 400m hurdles.

Sydney Harrington and I both met our match with gusting headwinds in the sprint hurdles, and Dee Clark and Andrew Guida also battled the elements in the 800m.

Click here for full results.

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