GBTC Awards Announced at Annual Meeting

A number of awards were presented to members of the club at the annual meeting of GBTC on Tuesday, October 27. First, the Margaret Bradley award winner was announced. This award, presented annually to a female member of GBTC who performs at a high level and embodies the enthusiasm and team spirit of Margaret, was awarded this year to Gretchen Chick. Gretchen has represented the club strongly in track, cross-country and road racing, and will receive travel support to a race of her choosing within the U.S. in the next 12 months.

Coaches Tom Derderian and Dave Callum also presented their coaches awards. These awards typically recognize those who have gone the extra mile (literally) for the club, shown exceptional team spirit, improved their performances over short or long time periods, or all of the above. Tiana Riel was recognized by coach Callum for her extraordinary contributions at Club Track & Field Nationals, in which she competed in four individual events and two relays, contributing substantially to the narrow victory by the GBTC women. Francis Shen was the recipient of Callum's other award for his many years of leadership of the hurdle squad, which is well evidenced in this legendary urban hurdling video.

On the distance side, Coach Derderian gave his male award to Dan Smith, who in two years with the club has gone from out-of-shape to PR shape, his 14:51 for 5k leading the men's list in 2009. Christy Bonstelle received the women's distance award with PRs at the half and full marathon that helped carry the women's team to the overall victory in the USATF-NE Grand Prix. She was also a member of the 4th-placed team at the Boston marathon.

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Mayor's Cup Toughest Competition Ever!

Jen Lee sprints to the finish flanked by competition. GreaterSnap photo

Teams and runners poured into Franklin Park today from everywhere: Riadha (means athletics in Swahili) from New York City, Westchester TC, Genesee Valley, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Maryland as well as the usual Boston clubs to race the 20th Mayor's Cup annual cross country championships. GBTC women's open team took 5th and the men took 7th. Allison McCabe again let the women's team as she has been doing in road races and track meets, Amelia Bishop and Gretchen Chick finished very close behind her. Mud, puddles , and squishy ground from the night's torrential rains slowed race times.

In the men's race Ryan Place, less fit than he has been because of an injury, led the team with Nate Freese and Dan Smith in support. As evidenced from the results below GBTC ran with numbers and quality.

Perhaps the news of the day is the resurgence of the club's men's master's team. Out of 20 men's teams the GBTC masters placed 4th. The masters team should be formidable in the New England Masters's Championships on Nov 8th over 8 km in Franklin Park.

Full results here, and GBTC results below.

20th Annual Mayor's Cup
Presented by the B.A.A. and adidas
Oct. 25, 2009 Franklin Park, Boston, MA

Women's championship 5km
1 1/79 F0139 16:39 5:21 Irene Kimaiyo 26 RIADHA
24 18/79 F0139 18:37 5:59 Allison McCabe 27 GBTC
26 20/79 F0139 18:41 6:00 Amelia Bishop 25 GBTC
27 21/79 F0139 18:45 6:01 Gretchen Chick 28 GBTC
35 29/79 F0139 19:07 6:08 Jennifer Lee 27 GBTC
52 44/79 F0139 19:34 6:17 Kyle Macqueen 24 GBTC
61 51/79 F0139 19:56 6:24 Jane-Marie Ovanin 26 GBTC
67 56/79 F0139 20:16 6:30 Scarlett Graham 24 GBTC
73 60/79 F0139 20:40 6:38 Kate Klim 26 GBTC
76 63/79 F0139 20:47 6:40 Katie Famous 30 GBTC
93 77/79 F0139 22:14 7:08 Jenny Thomas 29 GBTC



Men's championship 8km
1 1/126 M0139 23:54 4:51 Sean Quigley 24 PUMA
28 26/126 M0139 25:37 5:11 Ryan Place 24 GBTC
36 32/126 M0139 25:55 5:15 Nathaniel Freese 24 GBTC
42 38/126 M0139 26:02 5:16 Dan Smith 31 GBTC
47 42/126 M0139 26:12 5:18 Matthew Hainga 26 GBTC
63 57/126 M0139 26:33 5:23 Kevin Somers 31 GBTC
69 60/126 M0139 26:45 5:25 Robert Espinosa 25 GBTC
86 74/126 M0139 27:24 5:33 Jungyong Pak 31 GBTC
91 79/126 M0139 27:32 5:35 Edward Breen 28 GBTC
105 91/126 M0139 27:56 5:40 Ryan Eckel 31 GBTC
109 94/126 M0139 28:01 5:40 Brad Kozel 29 GBTC
117 101/126 M0139 28:25 5:45 Doug Chick 30 GBTC
126 ?? 28:51 5:51 William Feldman 24 GBTC
136 117/126 M0139 29:22 5:57 Chris Lowe 28 GBTC

Franklin Park all-comer 5 km
1 1/151 M0139 16:04 5:10 Antony Taylor 17 M 603
23 1/31 M4049 17:43 5:41 John Raguin 40 GBTC MASTERS
29 25/151 M0139 18:12 5:51 Greg Johnston 19 GBTC
33 29/151 M0139 18:18 5:53 Rue Ratray 34 GBTC
39 3/31 M4049 18:21 5:54 Adam Harder 46 GBTC MASTERS
47 39/151 M0139 18:34 5:58 Max White 25 GBTC
48 5/31 M4049 18:35 5:58 Scott Bosworth 45 GBTC MASTERS
64 6/31 M4049 19:11 6:09 Kris Depew 40 GBTC MASTERS
84 8/31 M4049 19:32 6:16 Brian Hare 45 GBTC MASTERS
85 70/151 M0139 19:32 6:16 Brian Beaulieu 35 GBTC
105 12/31 M4049 20:09 6:28 Ken Ross 47 GBTC MASTERS
107 9/24 M5059 20:14 6:30 Joel Bargmann 57 GBTC MASTERS
114 10/24 M5059 20:32 6:35 Bruce Bond 57 GBTC MASTERS
122 11/24 M5059 20:42 6:39 Richard Puckerin 59 GBTC MASTERS
156 2/8 M6099 21:40 6:57 Tom Derderian 60 GBTC MASTERS
182 22/104 F0139 22:30 7:13 Deanna Clark 28 GBTC
187 25/104 F0139 22:37 7:16 Jessica Klett 25 GBTC
233 45/104 F0139 24:29 7:52 Tiera Fletcher 23 GBTC
Chipless Russ Miller per his own watch, was 24:58.85
278 65/104 F0139 26:31 8:31 Tessa Clare 27 GBTC
356 finishers

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Women Win with Weightless Ease

Sara Donahue in the 2008 Olympic Trials Marathon. Photo by GreaterSnap

Sara Donahue dressed for the rain in short black sleeves and black tights as the Nor'easter blew in off the ocean. She started slowly then flittered along like Peter Pan's shadow taking the women's lead in the last quarter of the race to win with weightless ease. She led her team to a New England Marathon Championship win and victory in the entire USATFNE Grand Prix road race series for 2009. Newly wed Tara Vance Wommack finished 7th among the women and Christy Bonstelle running her personal best placed 10th in the women's competition.

For the men's team in red, new-green card holder Tomoaki Uchiki ran like a Samurai in the rain fiercely running down the competition along the banks of the Merrimack River taking 19th in the race and second for the team. Jim Emord followed closely but the team leader for the day running personal best was Ryan Aschbrenner, his white hat a beacon to his teammates.

Going into today's race GBTC and BAA were tied for first. But the BAA team placed only seventh. The GBTC open men's team placed 4th behind first place Central Mass Striders so the score after this final 2009 USATFNE Grand Prix race adds up to a tie for first between GBTC and CMS with BAA third.

Giannis Papadopoulos took second in the half marathon in 1:11.

Full results here, and GBTC results below.

Team leader Ryan Aschbrenner in a GreaterSnap photo taken on a sunny day. Today GreaterSnap could not tolerate photographing in the rain.

Baystate Marathon, Lowell, MA, October 18, 2009

1 2:27:53 Brandon Newbould WHIRL
11 2:34:48 Ryan Aschbrenner GBTC
19 2:42:31 Tomoaki Uchiki GBTC
20 2:43:13 Robert Emord GBTC
24 2:44:20 Tim Stickney GBTC
40 2:49:27 Eric Mendoza GBTC
45 2:51:19 Sara Donahue GBTC, 1st woman
57 2:55:39 Rue Ratray (joined GBTC after he registered)
61 2:56:08 Dustin Barnes GBTC
81 3:00:46 Michael Toomey (joined GBTC after he registered)
94 3:04:48 Tara Vance Wommack GBTC
141 3:08:56 Christy Bonstelle GBTC
176 3:12:03 Bill Newsham GBTC
586 3:40:13 Norm Robbie GBTC
1148 4:13:28 Kelly Aschbrenner GBTC
1561 finishers

Lowell Sun 1/2 Marathon
2 1:11:44 Giannis Papadopoulos GBTC
42 1:28:56 Kate Klim GBTC 6th Woman
565 1:59:44 Joy Will GBTC

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GBTC 6th at Tufts USATF National 10 km Champs

Merry Placer took 45th place in the USATF National 10 km Championships
photos by GreaterSnap

Two new club members, Merry Placer and Sarah Milby, joined Tara Wommack who ran (as Vance) on last year's fifth place team. Placer ran at Wake Forest and Milby played soccer for Yale. Wommack will race in NE Grand Prix final road race, the Bay State Marathon next Sunday, Oct 18th. The team currently leads the year's standings. She will be joined by Olympic Trials qualifier, Sarah Donahue, Christy Bonstelle, and Kelley Aschbrenner.

6. GBTC
36:40 38:21 38:40 ( 40:43) ( 46:24) = 1:53:41
Meredith Placer, Tara Wommack, Sarah Milby, Anna Novick, Allison
Curran

Others from the club not declared on the team; Hannah Hastings 39:43, Sarah Romain 41:41, Katie Fobert 42:31, Amanda Watters, 42:39, and remarkably, sixty one year old Sandy Miller who has run every one of these racing since the very first one: in 2:01:55. Full results on coolrunning
Sarah Milby took 69th place.

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Lee wins, GBTC teams second at Wayland

The course covered grass, sand, rocks, pavement up steep hills and down steeper ones. Good sunny fall day. The USATF-NE Grand prix standings will be updated here.

Jennifer Lee won the women's race beating formidable Caitlyn Clark of SISU by 30 seconds.

Full results here, GBTC results below.

Wayland XC Festival, Wayland, MA, October 11, 2009

Men's team score
SISU 23
GBTC 29
NETT 68

Women's team score
SISU 29
GBTC 42
NETT 49

1 Timothy Ritchie 15:12 4:53
8 Brad Kozel 16:57 5:27
9 Doug Chick 16:57 5:27
15 John Raguin 17:37 5:40
19 Bruce Davie 17:41 5:41
26 Adam Harder 18:14 5:52
27 Adam Greenspan 18:21 5:54
29 Kris Depew 18:28 5:56
33 Jennifer Lee 18:48 6:03, 1st woman
44 Brian Hare 19:38 6:19
50 Bruce Bond 20:19 6:32
54 Joel Bargmann 20:28 6:35
67 Annie Morgan 21:22 6:52
70 Tom Derderian 21:39 6:58
75 Jenny Thomas 22:06 7:06
81 Jessica Klett 22:34 7:15
86 Deanna Clark 23:07 7:26
98 Russ Miller 24:47 7:58
116 Cynthia Hastings 26:55 8:39
149 finishers

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Masters Men to Take Wayland Stage

GBTC masters led by Bruce Davie's black socks and perhaps with Adam Harder at his side and maybe pursued by Scott Bosworth will race 5km in Wayland, MA on Sunday Oct 11. They are pictured here in a GreaterSnap photo at last week's Topsfield 8km xc.

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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

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GBTC Hosts Topsfield XC Festival Sunday

With excellent cross-country running conditions forecast (mild, possibly damp, but rain likely clearing), the Topsfield cross-country festival, hosted by GBTC and Puma, will take place this Sunday, October 4, beginning with the women's 5K at 10 a.m., followed by the men's 8K at 10:30 a.m. Teams are travelling from New York, Philadelphia and Maryland to compete.

Entries are still open -- see here for details. Prize money for teams totals $2000, going five deep in both men's and women's competitions. These races form part of the USATF New England cross-country Grand Prix.

Click on "more" to see the current list of entrants (as of Saturday a.m.).

Start List for Topsfield XC Festival 2009
Men

Manhattan Track Club
John Cote
Patrick Anglin
Bill Young
Brian Horneck
Chris DeLaubenfels
Bill Walkowicz

Greater Lowell Road Runners
John Barbour
Andrew Bianchieri
Peter LaGoy
Mark Reeder
Phil Riley

Greater Boston Track Club
Kibrom Temelso

Dan Smith

Junyong Pak

Will Feldman
Eric Mendoza

Ryan Eckel

Tomoaki Uchiki

Rob Espinosa

Luis Torres

Doug Chick

Brad Kozel

Dan Hall

Ryan Place

Matt Haringa

Brian Beaulieu

GBTC Masters


Bruce Davie

Joel Bargmann

Scott Bosworth

Adam Harder

Brian Hare

Chris Dywer

Bruce Bond
Ken Ross

Riadha
Dennis Wolff

Central Mass Striders
Dave Dunham
Dan Navariku
Kevin Tilton
Jim Johnson
Dan Verrington
Dave Quintal
Tom Brown
Jim Pawlicki
Matt Clark

New England Track and Trail
Dave Hannon
Ben Winther
Chris Smith
Ben Gray
Martin Bures
Frank Kjaersgaard

Boston Athletic Association
Jarrod Shoemaker (winner in 08)
Josh Gordon
John Barrett
Mark Bell
Matt Carter
Anthony Crudale
Dave Menard
Kevin Gallagher

New Balance Boston
Dan Lounsbury

SISU
Jamie Aubuchon

Unattached
Jessey Campbell
Jon Ethington

Women

Philly Track Club
Heidi Bretscher
Claire Duncan
Erin Fisher
Erin Kimm
Kate Reese

Riadha
Kristin Anderson
Liz Grudzinski

Boston Athletic Association
Barbara Bell

Greater Boston Track Club
Katie Famous

Kate Klim
Kristin Schleicher
Tara Vance

Scarlett Graham

Merry Placer

Jane Ovanin

Jen Lee

Allison McCabe

Kyle MacQueen

Gretchen Chick

Sarah Milby

Annie Morgan

Anna Novick

Amelia Bishop
Ronnesia Gaskins
Jenny Thomas

New England Track and Trail
Tina Wang
Adrienne Cyrulik
Mary Smith
Jess Walden
Chelsea Fellows-Swenson

Unattached
Amanda Maffei
Kristen Campbell

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