NEW YORK CITY: Kyle Linn MacQueen broke her new club women’s 3,000m record by two tenths of a second in the Columbia University “Last Chance” meet at the Armory track. She placed 11th. Results.
Locally, Eric Mendoza won the Black Cat 20 miler in Salem, MA, followed by teammate Jon Chesto. Mike Urquolia placed 20th, Katie Bash 35th, Joy Will 70th, 327 finishers. In the accompanying 10 miler Alee Rowley placed second woman in 63:54. Full results are available here.
GBTC's Kevin Johnson battles with CMS Nate Jenkins and BAA's Eric Ashe on the hilly 10 mile course in Amherst, MA in the first USATF-NE Grand Prix race of 2012. Photo by Kristen Kozlosky
GBTC men placed second to our friends of the BAA and women placed third. Amelia Landberg placed third in the open women’s with yet another personal best.
Full results are available here.
Contributed by GBTC athlete and Treasurer, Sara O’Brien:
“Over here there is video of Devotia Moore in the women’s 800 m (heat 3) and on the 4th page there is Daniel Hutcherson’s best triple jump (14.92 m). Nice to see the GBTC uniform competing there!”
Nicholas Ricciardi was the winner of the Long Jump at 2012 USATF-NE Indoor Track & Field Championships.
Kyle Linn MacQueen continued her season’s record breaking streak smashing her own new club women’s mile record with a 4:49.74 win. She led the race from start to finish. In winning the men’s 800 m, Tim Bayley almost broke the late Keith Francis‘ 800 m record of 1:50.2 set in 1980 with his 1:50.48 today.
Both GBTC teams outscored all others, but the exact tally is not yet available. GBTC had plenty of event winners: Jessica Klett won the 800 m in 2:13.65, and Andrea Walkonen won the 5,000 m in 17:05.
Andrea Walkonen started the day by winning the 5,000 m. Photo by GreaterSnap
Women’s Distance Medley: Will, Morgan, Cunningham, McCabe
Alexander Engel won the 400 in 49.83
Sheldon Allen won the 60 meter hurdles in 8.44
Men’s Distance Medley: Evanter, Bayley, Cahill, Wheatley
Cory Fairfield won the high jump 6’6″
Nick Ricciardi won the long jump 21-09.50
Nate Hunter won the shot put 56-09.50
Full results are available here.
Emily Raymond, File photo by GreaterSnap
The wind blew across the island of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Cape Cod. Usually this island is an hospitable summer vacation spot, but not today. GBTC’s Jon Chesto ran for second, well behind the accomplished Paul Ryan of the BAA, so Chesto fought alone into wind in the quiet forest and struggled to keep his racing focus. A runner passed him in the last miles, but Chesto easily won his age group.
Chesto won the 40+, Gary Cattarin won the 45+, and Ken Ross won the 50+.
But the big news is that Emily Raymond, a long-time GBTC member from Ohio and Brigham Young University, won the women’s race by three minutes. She is preparing for the Boston Marathon as are many other club runners. See this article for today’s photo.
THE 15th MARTHA’S VINEYARD 20 MILER
1 1/28 1:51:45 5:36 Paul Ryan 31
3 1/38 2:00:17 6:01 Jon Chesto 40
11 1/33 2:09:49 6:30 Gary Cattarin 48
16 1/26 2:12:04 6:37 Ken Ross 50
20 1/38 2:13:11 6:40 Emily Raymond 30 F
23 4/38 2:14:41 6:45 Michael Urquiola 44
201 4/16 2:51:49 8:36 Rachel Shanor 54 F
398 finishers
Jonathan Hall, racing third leg in pursuit of a new club record in the 4x400 m. Photo by GreaterSnap
They said they came to break the club record. But it didn’t look good when David Kennedy, who had recently broken the club record for 400 m, developed a hamstring problem in his open 400 m. Coach Callum had a replacement from the “B” team. Warren Lane ran the first leg in revenge for what he thought was a poor 500 m race earlier in the day and handed off to Christian Tirella, then to Jon Hall who wore the GBTC shirt for the first time, and at last to Alex Engle (whose record Kennedy broke). They got the record by a whopping two seconds. 3:14:86.
Earlier in the day UMass grad, Dan Barry, in his second race in GBTC red, ran the mile in 4:09.85 in a meet that saw five sub-four minute miles. Barry placed 34th in a field of 244 milers. This meet was the place to be on the East Coast!
Ted Breen, also UMass grad, ran a personal best in the 3,000 m. Especially fun for GBTC fans was watching the battle in the mile among Haringa, Mendoza, and Lowe. Results are in the club performance list.
Kyle Linn MacQueen with the GBTC 3,000 m record on the line at Valentine. Photo by GreaterSnap
Devotia Moore said after smashing the GBTC record for 800 m on Friday that she’s been running so well ever since she started wearing the the club’s red uniform that she ought to staple it to herself. She blasted out with an opening 28s first lap to push to a National qualifier and 2012 US Olympic Trials “B” qualifier with her 2:04.64 winning time. That broke her club record of 2:07.09 recently set at the New Balance Invite in NYC on February 4. Jess Klett ran her personal best of 2:09.95. Kyle MacQueen took her turn later to smash the club record and personal best in the 3,000 m with a 9:32.50. Current club president Sara Donahue‘s record from 2009 of 9:48.20 fell.
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GBTC's Matt Haringa took the lead at half way in the Great Stew Chase to open the road racing season. photo by race director Roger Perham
GBTC athletes ran all over the Northeast this weekend. A cadre of guys traveled to Kingston, RI for the Torpey Invitational: Kyle Williams, David Kennedy, Sheldon Allen, Jimm Guerrier, Stephen Armstrong—their results are in the club performance list, while all total meet results are on the URI site. Nicholas Ricciardi went North to Dartmouth and Devotia Moore, 2:07.09, 800m, and Ayanna Alexander and Samyr Laine went West to NYC for the New Balance meet. Results, a clerical error prevented their GBTC affiliation from appearing in the results.
On the roads Matt Haringa and Sam Jurek took first and second in the Great Stew Chase 15 km road race in Lynn, MA. full results will be on coolrunning: here. Four GBTC runners joined Haringa and Jurek in the early lead pack, Matt Lyons and Mat Weissinger. Jason Dunklee followed at a respectful distance. At the turn around on the out and back course Haringa rolled away on the downhill to win by 36 seconds. Ken Ross won the 50+ division, one that he has recently joined, and Tom Derderian won the 60+. Joy Will, Jen Joyce, and Cynthia Hastings composed the women’s club representation. The next big road race for the club will be the first Grand Pix race—the ten miler in Amherst, on Feb 26th.
GBTC’s Corey Fairfield clears the high jump at Sunday’s Greater Boston Track Club Invitational (photo by Zach Traina).
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