Seeing the Fast in Feast

Good Gravy! (L-R) Gaskins, McCabe, and Clark flap their Thanksgiving Day wings 'n thighs at the Feaster Five in Andover, MA

Yesterday morning, dozens of club members didn't ruminate over why a Turkey Day Trot feels necessary. They instead stood up from the table, carried their own plate back to the local kitchen, and hand-carved slices of road race bird, which were generously adorned with all the best trimmings and enrobed in the gravy of victory.

Just desserts soon followed. Click the "more" below to taste what GBTC whipped up in the results.

Stow Gobbler, 5 km, Stow, MA
John Raguin, 17:03, 2nd overall, 1st master

Great Gobbler, 5 km Trail Run, Nashua, NH
Bill Newsham, 18:53, 11th overall, 3rd master

Galloping Gobbler, 4 mi, Concord, NH
Alyssa Brigham 25:43, 31st overall, 2nd woman

Gobble Gobble Gobble, 4 mi, Somerville, MA
Bruce Davie 21:58 11th overall, 4th master
Brad Kozel 22:07, 14th
John Blouin 22:37, 19th
Jason Dunklee 22:42, 21st
Max White 23:18, 29th
Scarlett Graham 24:19, 4th woman
Ken Ross 24:47, 65th, 17th master
Hannah Hastings 24:49, 8th woman
Laura Hayden 25:45, 11th woman
Christy Bonstelle 25:47, 12th woman
Jenny Thomas 27:37, 25th woman
Kelly Aschbrenner 31:22, 123rd woman
Also in attendance: Chris Smith, Sara Casilli, Tomoaki Uchiki, and Charlotte Dunklee (4 months old)

Pie Run, 5 mi, Middletown, RI
Matt Nolan 35:27, 144th overall

Smiles Change Lives Turkey Trot, 5 km, Blue Point, NY
Michael Guarascio 17:27, 5th overall

Ellis Hospital Cardiac Classic, 5 km, Schenectady, NY
Matthew Haringa 15:50, 2nd overall

Christopher Dailey 5k Turkey Trot, Saratoga Springs, NY
Brian McNamara 16:06, 4th overall

Manchester Road Race, 4.748 mi, Manchester, CT
Ryan Eckel 26:25, 65th overall
Rich Heller 26:40, 67th
Kimberly Eckel 35:07, 1144th

Feaster Five, 5 km, Andover, MA
Allison McCabe 18:11, 1st woman
Ronnesia Gaskins 20:38, 3rd woman
Deanna Clark 21:12, 5th woman

Feaster Five, 5 mi, Andover, MA
Brian Beaulieu 30:20, 34th overall

Portland Thanksgiving Day 4 Miler, Portland, ME
Tim Stickney 22:53, 22nd overall
Gretchen Chick 23:30, 31st, 1st woman

Tiger Turkey Chase, 5 mi, Easton, MA
Lynn Johnson 30:32, 13th overall, 2nd woman
Kathryn Fobert 33:15, 43rd, 4th woman

Boston Volvo Village 5k, Brighton, MA
Adam Greenspan 17:02, 16th overall
Joe Grand 18:43, 33rd
Tara Wommack 18:52, 34th, 7th woman
Brian Igoe 18:57, 37th
Leslie Irvine 19:33, 57th, 11th woman
Michael Moyles 20:15, 72nd

Acton Turkey Trot, 5 km, Acton, MA
Joshua Seeherman 18:10, 6th overall
Kris Depew 18:20m 8th, 2nd master

Donohue's Turkey Trot, 5km, Watertown, MA
Becca Neill 21:42, 40th overall, 7th woman

Talking Turkey Cross-Country Race, 6 mi, Holyoke, MA
Edward Breen 32:01, 7th overall
Meghan Lynch 36:29, 24th, 2nd woman
Tom Derderian 39:17, 59th, 1st M60-69
Katie Famous 40:44, 86th, 11th woman
Cynthia Hastings 50:53, 530th

Northern Central Trail Marathon, Sparks, MD
Jon Chesto 2:44:10, 1st overall and 2009 Champion!

Tough Ten Mile Turkey Trot, 10 mi, Marlborough, MA
Russ Miller 1:24:32, 70th overall, 40th master

Andover Country Club XC, 3.5 Mi, Andover, MA
Tomoaki Uchiki 19:38, 9th overall
Dan Hall 20:50, 25th
Max White 21:06, 27th
Jennifer Lee 21:16, 32nd, 2nd woman
Tom Derderian 23:05, 59th, 1st M60-69

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Bad Boy XC in Van Cortlandt, Bronx, NYC

The GBTC team and the Central Park Track Club happily pose together today in their tune-up dual meet before the Club Nationals.
photo by Sue Pearsall

GBTC teams travelled to New York to compete in the Bad Boy XC meet hosted by Manhattan Track Club at the historic Van Cortlandt Park course. In tightly contested races, the men's team was 3rd of 3 complete teams, the women's team 2nd of 2.

Full results are available here, and more photos are available here.

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Philadephia Marathon

photo by GreaterSnap

Giannis Papadopoulos 2:35:11, 10 second PR in the Philadelphia Marathon today. He is on the club team for Boston.

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Milby second in Half Marathon

Milby in the NE XC Champs
photo by GreaterSnap
Sarah Milby age 24 placed 2nd out of 361 women in the Chilly, hilly, half marathon held in Newton, MA today in 1:25:32 averaging 6:32 per mile. Milby played soccer at Yale before taking up long distance racing. She is entered in the 2010 Boston Marathon.

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Men 2nd and women 3rd in NE XC Champs: Nat Next!

Photo by GreaterSnap

Greater Boston Track Club men placed second and the women third in the 2009 open USATF-NE championships. The men beat the New Balance Boston club by a mere point. Both GBTC teams are next off to the USATF Fall National Cross Country Championships in Lexington, KY on December 12. The top 8 from the club in each race qualified for the right to represent the club. The club will pay most expenses for the trip.

Full results including masters here. More photos on Flickr.

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New York Thriller

Younger members Mike Guarascio (ca. 1983) and Sarah Romain (ca. 1984) weren't yet born the last time an American (Alberto Salazar, a GBTC alumnus) won the New York City Marathon back in 1982, in the trough of that particular era's economic recession. But what was once old has become new again, as self-made American and Olympian Meb Keflezighi minted his own $200,000 economic recovery package, by winning the whole NYRR shebang including the simultaneous USATF Championship.

Meanwhile, GBTCers Guarascio (2:55:56), Romain (3:19:38), Allison Tables (ca. 1979, 3:39:09), Brian McNamara (ca. 1982, 2:39:16), and Matthew Biggart (ca. 1984, 2:48:54) punched their own tickets for an obscure local sporting tradition while contemplating when a future American might do similar justice to Miki Gorman's legacy along Lebow's five-borough course (her second victory was in 1977). Provisional results are now posted here. Celebrities including Ed Norton (3:48:01) were counted among the dead (who) start to walk in their masquerade.

And finally, bearing their combined funk of forty thousand years, longtime members Andy Rogovin (77th, 3:25:16) and John Blouin (12th, 3:05:43) qualified for the B.A.A. footrace at the Cape Cod and Mount Desert Island Marathons, in their own time. Results are here: CCM, MDI.

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