About GBTC
The Greater Boston Track Club (GBTC) is a friendly and competitive team with approximately 200 members. We compete at the national, regional, and local levels in cross country, track and field, and trail running. GBTC provides a team-oriented, structured training environment for athletes of many abilities who train for everything from jumps and throws to sprints, road races, cross country, and marathons. Members train for several specific competitions throughout the year, and financial support is provided to compete at some major events. We sponsor athletes based on a tiered system of performance standards, and the club is a designated USATF Elite Development Club.
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Category Archives: Roads
PRs Abound at Boston Marathon
In what should have been the most important news of the day on Monday, the GBTC Open Men’s and Open Women’s teams took 5th and 4th places respectively in the team competition at the Boston Marathon on a beautiful day … Continue reading
Coach Tom and the Holy Grail
Coach and author Tom Derderian talked with Scott Simon on this morning’s episode of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. The episode and transcript are available here. And the episode is embedded below.
Men win USATF-NE Grant
The GBTC men’s team will be traveling to Chicago, IL, this weekend for the first ever USATF National Club Team 8 km Championships. The team members are Brennan Bonner, Brian McNamara, Matt Haringa, Ryan Irwin, and Chris Kibler. The championship … Continue reading
Upton 15 km Boston Tune-Up
In the 33rd annual Boston Tune up 15 km in the next town west of the Boston Marathon start in Hopkinton our fellow club Tri-Valley FrontRunners hosted a cordial and hard event. Their hospitality provided hot soups of various flavors … Continue reading
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Jurek, Mendoza go 1, 2 in ES 20 miler; Millett wins half
Full results are available at Cool Running: 20 Miler, half marathon.
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GBTC at New Bedford Grand Prix half marathon
Men’s team places 3rd and Women’s team places 4th. Everyone ran good and hard races. GBTC finishers in order at New Bedford.
First USATF-NE Grand Prix of 2013
Amherst, MA Feb 24th— Great threats of a major snowstorm never fell… only a few flakes on wet roads. Great team work in getting to the race—maybe the toughest, hilliest 10-mile around. Hosted by the Sugarloaf MT AC and sponsored … Continue reading
The 2013 Road Race Season begins with the Great Stew Chase
Lynn, MA—Audrey Zaferos ran a new personal record today in the 15 km Great Stew Chase on a snowy day in Lynn Massachusetts and later happily wrote in a text, “We were a sea of 10 red singlets in the … Continue reading
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Cape Cod Marathon and Relay in the money
GBTC men placed third in the USATF-NE Marathon Championship in Falmouth on Cape Cod today. Sam Jurek, Ryan Aschbrenner, and Chas Mitchell led a large GBTC team. Jurek ran 2:39:36 for 9th open man and Aschrenner ran 2:41:15 for 10th. … Continue reading
