Twilight Series Kicks Off

Hafiz Greigre started the meet and the series leading GBTC to 1, 2, in the 400.
photos by GreaterSnap.

1 Hafiz Greigre                GBTC                     47.94   1
2 Christian Tirella            GBTC                     48.56   1
3 Charles Dewey                Providence               48.71   1

Sara O'Brien won the women's 400.
The GBTC women 400 team, Sara O'Brien,hand on hip, Deanna Clark, movie-star sunglasses, Jessica Klett, 
with the kicked asphalt shirt, and Christine Kloiber 

Dan Smith ran his all-time personal best in the 5000, 14:51.48, followed by teammates Matt Haringa and Kevin Somers. (late entry, misspelled and unattached in the results.)

Results are available here.
Hundreds of photos are available by GreaterSnap.

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GBTC Road Teams Press to Win NE Grand Prix Series

The GBTC team in early action . Photo by Ted Tyler coolrunning
The GBTC men's team is looking toward the next Grand Prix race at Rhody 5km on June 7th.
Photo by GreaterSnap

The GBTC women's team took 2nd place at the Bedford Rotary Memorial 12K, pushing them past the Boston Athletic Association on the year's USATFNE Grand Prix circuit to second place, a point behind today's winning team, Central Mass Striders. Gretchen Chick ran third in the open women's race with Kyle Linn MacQueen in 10th and Jane-Marie Ovanin in 12th.

The GBTC men's team took 4th, also eclipsing the BAA who failed to finish a 5th runner so had no score. The men are now tied with CMS for first place. Three new men raced for the club for the first time today. In order of finish, Dan Mazzocco a recent Penn State grad working at Reebok but planning to go into teaching. Will Feldman studying at Suffolk University and Tim Stickney who comes from a background of cross-country ski racing.

These Grand Prix races function as championship races so we can consider the GBTC teams the equal to the best in New England. Winning the entire series is perfectly possible. The only pall on the day was Nate Freese encountering allergy/breathing problems about 6 km into the race. We had expected him to race with our top runner, Dan Smith.

Full results are here, and GBTC results are below.

35th Annual Bedford Rotary Memorial Road Race
2009 USATF-NE 12K Championship
May 15, 2009 Bedford, NH

1 37:50* 5:05 Joseph Koech RUN
5 38:53 5:13 Dan Smith GBTC
11 39:17 5:16 Andrew Wommack GBTC
13 9 39:34 5:19 Matthew Haringa GBTC
24 40:18 5:25 Daniel Mazzocco GBTC
34 41:08 5:31 Edward Breen GBTC
45 41:34 5:35 Ryan Aschbrenner GBTC
54 42:37 5:43 Matthew Biggart GBTC
55 42:37 5:43 Nathaniel Freese GBTC
67 43:38 5:52 William Feldman GBTC
70 44:21 5:57 Michael Guarascio GBTC
77 45:00 6:02 Tim Stickney GBTC
85 45:46 6:09 Gretchen Chick GBTC
114 47:11 6:20 Kyle Linn MacQueen GBTC
119 47:40 6:24 Jane-Marie Ovanin GBTC
188 52:26 7:02 Kathryn Fobert GBTC
195 53:01 7:07 Kate Klim GBTC
242 1 56:24 7:34 Katie Famous GBTC
333 1:02:18 8:22 Joseph Mozzone GBTC
480 finishers

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Athletes Reconnoiter Nationals Site

Icahn Stadium in New York City will fill up for the Club National Championships on July 10-11. GBTC athletes Josette Pierre-Louis and Allison McCabe (716) traveled to NYC for a site visit and tune up.

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Lynch to Race in California

Meghan Lynch, in the red dress, accepted the Greater Boston Track Club award of expenses to race anywhere in the USA in memory of club member Margaret Bradley. Others posed are club president Bruce Davie and committee members, Laura Hayden, Cynthia Hastings, and Katie Famous. The club presented the award at a special reception held in Brookline on May 2.
photo by GreaterSnap


Meghan Lynch will represent GBTC in the large and notorious Bay to Breakers 12 km race across the San Francisco peninsula on May 17th. This will be Lynch's second west coast trip for the club. She raced in the National Cross country in Spokane, WA in 2008.

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