Amelia in a happy-face "battle" with BAA runner. Photo by Emily Raymond

Less than a month after collapsing at 25 and a half miles into the hot Boston Marathon and waking up in the medical tent, with IVs stuck in her and pumping in fluid, Amelia Landberg got her marathon personal best in today’s Providence Marathon, finishing as second woman and winning $750.

All GBTC:
11 Jason Dunklee 2:46:44
25 Amelia Landberg 2:54:26
107 Kathryn Fobert 3:10:18

Ruben Sanca leads Nate Jenkins. Photo by Bob Fitzgerald, New England Runner Magazine

Dedham, MA—Ruben Sanca and Nate Jenkins staged another combative race with Sanca charging away up hills and Jenkins charging back on the downhills. Good friends do make good competition.

Men
1 30:19 Ruben Sanca
13 33:55 Chris Hine
45 39:02 Max White
97 41:46 Tom Derderian, first 60+

Women
6 38:52 Kate Klim
7 39:11 Medena Knespl
10 40:03 Katie Famous
12 41:39 Katie Passarell

GBTC's victorious shuttle hurdle heroes at the Penn Relays. Photo by Jay Talbott.

Contributed by GBTC athlete and record keeper, Joshua Seeherman, reporting from Philadelphia:

Today down in Philadelphia GBTC fielded a shuttle hurdle team at the 118th Penn Relays. The shuttle hurdles are a unique event that is only offered to clubs at a handful of meets around the country. The race here featured three teams; your friendly clubmates from Boston (Sheldon Allen, Jimm Guerrier, Seleke Samake, and Dan Sheehan) with two formidable clubs from the Mid-Atlantic, the Shore AC (NJ) and Zenith Velocity (PA).

The gun went off and GBTC found themselves trailing, but as those who have seen the shuttle hurdles know, much of the challenge is not crashing, a particular challenge today with swirling winds. On the second leg, a Zenith Velocity fell, taking out to some degree Shore AC in the process. Left alone on the far right, GBTC glided by without incident, and that was all that was necessary for victory by over 5 seconds. The quartet’s time of 62.08 was slightly faster than GBTC’s 2005 championship team that ran 62.14 in a similar situation. Good times all around, especially when it involves coveted Penn Relays watches. Congrats !

Margaret Bradley Award winner Victoria Barnaby will jump into the Olympic Development Steeplechase at the Penn Relays on Thursday

Sean Duncan and Victoria Barnaby will run their respective Olympic Development Steeples at 7:50 and 8:00 pm on Thursday at the Penn Relays. Duncan ran one second off the US Olympic Trials provisional “B” standard last week and may have to win the race by a considerable margin to get under 8:45. Last year’s winning time was 9:01. Shortly after the leaping and splashing, Kyle Linn MacQueen will race the packed Olympic Development 5,000 meters. Check the Penn Relays website to see about live coverage.

Sean Duncan in Larry Ellis, Princeton steeplechase. Photo by Tony DeSabato

Sean Duncan ran 8:46.97 for the 3k steeplechase tonight at Princeton University. Results are available here. That is a personal best for Sean; his previous was 8:52. This is the best steeple performance for the club in a long time. The club record is (Greg Meyer, 8:28.34, 1980).

Waiting for Bedoya in absurd weather for marathons

In a show of deep fitness GBTC’s David Bedoya sliced through the hot sunshine on a day most runners could not cut. Junyong Pak and Matt Fortin followed to give the GBTC men’s open team second place. Bedoya ran 2:29:34 for 21st place, Pak ran 2:39:16 for 69th place, and Fortin ran 2:46:53 for 144th.

Update: Race reports are coming forth, from David Bedoya, Audrey Zaferos, Gary Cattarin, and Emily Raymond. The Women’s open team finished in 7th place out of 50 scoring teams, and the Men’s masters team finished in 13th place out of 68 scoring teams. Continue reading to see a summary of results for all of GBTC athletes on Patriot’s Day.

GBTC Women’s Open Team
132 Manfredi, Victoria 3:18:21
139 Stickney, Sarah 3:18:49
149 Raymond, Emily S 3:19:18
202 Novick, Anna E 3:22:56
244 Walton, Zandra E. 3:24:56
2597 Will, Joy L. 4:01:38
4540 Lecuyer, Lindsey B. 4:22:04
5442 Zaferos, Audrey 4:32:15
5548 Joyce, Jennifer A. 4:33:40
DNF Landberg, Amelia B (40K in 2:54:13)

GBTC Men’s Masters Team
179 Chesto, Jon 2:48:57
699 Cattarin, Gary 3:05:07
2084 Wilhelm, Marcus 3:24:25
2867 Kole, Bill 3:32:11
4276 Cannistraro, Joseph C 3:44:49
8015 Burgess, David 4:19:17
11027 Circosta, Gary 5:09:55
DNF Urquiola, Michael (40K in 3:56:13)
DNS Mclucas, Doug
DNS Ross, Ken

GBTC Men’s Open Team
21 Bedoya, David 2:29:34
69 Pak, Junyong 2:39:16
144 Fortin, Matthew I 2:46:53
228 Erb-Satullo, Nathaniel 2:51:19
343 Walker, Xaviour 2:55:35
677 Stickney, Timothy 3:04:31
832 Dunklee, Jason 3:07:43
2756 Mendoza, Eric 3:30:53
7368 Jurek, Samuel C 4:12:01
DNF Young, Thomas (Half in 1:13:30)
DNF Lyons, Matthew (25K in 1:45:46)
DNF Temelso, Kibrom (15K in 1:08:04)
DNS Aschbrenner, Ryan