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Here are some of the announcements posted home page over the last few years, making up a partial history of the club.

2007

Former club member Marzuki Stevens was interviewed by Flotrack recently, and speaks about coming back to running with Coach Tom and GBTC.

Allison McCabe led the women to a team victory at the Ollie 8K New England Grand Prix on September 8 (results).

Kibrom Temelso won the Cape Ann 25K, and Nate Freese finished fourth. Club President Bruce Davie won the master's division, and all of our men finished in the top 20 out of 574 finishers on this warm, dry summer day (results).

Francis Shen has some great pictures and video from the club's competition in the USATF Regionals and Nationals this year.

Josh Seeherman has updated the performance list for the 2007 outdoor season, and recently updated the list of club records.

The GBTC men won their 8th consecutive New England outdoor track and field championship, and the women won their 6th in seven years! Be sure to read all about it on the club blog.

See pictures by Bruce Davie from the Boston High Performance Series on May 27.

The GBTC men won the Bedford 12K on May 19, tying for first place in the current standings of the USATFNE Grand Prix series (results).

Watch a funny "typical training session" on YouTube.  Dave Cahill and Francis Shen practice the hurdles on a busy track.

Even in some of the worse weather conditions in history, the club had many fine individual performances today at the Boston Marathon, with Megha Doshi, David Bedoya, Tomoaki Uchiki, and Kit Wells all recording PRs. Stanley Hu has some photos of club members in the race.

At Fresh Pond, David Bedoya, Ted Breen, John Tyson, Brodie Miles (former member), and Kit Wells took the top 5 places in the 5 miler. Carman Danforth, another former member, took third in the women's five. Victoria Barnaby won the women's 2.5 in 16:28, followed by Heather Audet and Christy Bonstelle.

 Emily Raymond won the Boston Tune-Up 10K in Upton on March 31 (results). Junyong Pak, born in Korea, raised in New Jersey, and educated in New Orleans, raced to his personal best in 10,000 meters pulling teammate John Tyson to his personal best in the first event of the day at the Tufts Snowflake Classic finishing 4th and 5th. Teammates Sara O'Brien and Stacy Conner also took 4th places in their events (results).

Sara Nelson of Chicago has been selected by Universal Sole as this year's recipient of the Margaret Bradley Award.  Sara will race in the Boston Marathon in April, and later in GBTC will select some club member to receive the award and race in the Chicago Marathon.  GBTC president Bruce Davie will host a reception for Sara at his condo on April 14, the Saturday before the marathon, so everyone come meet Sara.

Megha Doshi won the Eastern States 20 miler! (results)

At the Northeastern meet on March 24, GBTC's Kibrom Temelso and Emily Raymond won their 10,000 meters races. Emily ran a personal best of 34:57, improving the GBTC record of 35:29.68 by Julie Spolidoro in 2000. Stacey Connor broke the club record in the discus with her third place finish, and Jen Hawkes won the high jump in a field of 18 with a 1.67m.

Transitioning quickly back to his mileage buildup for outdoor track, Andie Colon runs the Claddagh Pub Classic 4 miler at 5:30s for 4th place (out of 410) in a cruising 21:57 on March 4 (results).

At Stu's 30K, GBTC's Laura Hayden ran 6:30 miles on a hilly course around the Wachusett Reservoir in the middle of Massachusetts to win the women's division and place 12th overall in a field of 320 runners. Teammate Megha Doshi started slowly with a 43 min first 10 km and "blew by a million runners" (ok a dozen) to move up to 23rd place. The third place woman ran into the finish ten minutes later. It is safe to say that both women are in the best shape of their lives (results). The same day, March 4, GBTC's Lucas Woodward won the North Shore 30 kilometers with Tomaki Uchiki in fifth (results).

GBTC women swept the top four places in the weekly Fresh Pond race on March 3: Gretchen Chick won with Kim Smith in second followed by Heather Audet and Mithu Lahiri.

The GBTC men's and women's road racing teams won and dominated the 33rd running of the Amherst 10 Mile Road Race. The teams of Jeremy Borling, Ted Breen, and David Bedoya, and Laura Hayden, Audrey Giesler, and Megha Doshi scored far ahead of any other clubs with the men placing second, fourth, and fifth, and the women placing second, third, and seventh (results). GBTC coach Tom Derderian founded the race as a preparation for the Boston Marathon with steeper hills that had to be run faster than the Boston Marathon hills. Bill Rodgers won the first race in 1975 and a month later won his first of four Boston Marathons. See the great news article on the race from the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

At USATF Nationals on February 25, Sherita Williams took fourth in the triple jump, and both DMR teams took third: the men ran 10:29 and the women ran 12:15 (results).  Josh Seeherman has updated the club performance list. The day before, Brian Hare won Saturday morning's ice-shortened Fresh Pond race, while Victoria Banaby and Heather Audet ran first and second for women. 

Ted Breen set a personal best in the 3000 of 8:41.40 at Boston University's Valentine Invitational on February 9. Dave Cahill led the club in 400 meters and Andie Colon ran an impressive 1000 meters in 2:30.05 (results).  Sherita Williams won the triple jump with a 13.26m. Allison McCabe and Anne Baker each broke their own club records in the mile and the 20 lb weight placing 9th and 4th in today's meet. Emily Raymond placed 5th in the 5000 with her personal best of 17:02. Later Allison McCabe missed breaking Laura Hayden's 1000m club record by 100th of a second. Gretchen Chick ran a personal best in the 3000m and Laura Hayden ran a personal best in the 5000. (results).

The men's DMR team of Pieck, Kerrigan, Borling, and Cahill ran a nationals qualifying DMR at the BU Terrier Invitational on January 29 in 10:20.40. Sherita Williams won the triple jump. The women's team won the DMR, setting a new club record. Allison McCabe, Sara O'Brien, Laura Hayden, and Emily Raymond finished just 0.89 seconds ahead of Tufts (results).

See the list of indoor track performances being compiled this season by Josh Seeherman, and watch it grow.  Coach Tom Derderian has updated the list of cross country nationals results.

See the final results of the GBTC Invitational at Harvard University on January 21. In team results, the GBTC men came in second to Seton Hall, and the GBTC women tied for fourth with Maine. Sherita Williams claimed a repeat victory in the triple jump, and Allison McCabe was the first GBTC runner ever to win the GBTC Invitational mile.

Allison McCabe ran 4.55.52 at the Tufts Invitational on January 13, breaking the club mile record of 4:57.3 set by Sherry Roberts in 1987 (results). Allison is a grad of University of Connecticut and teach elementary school in Revere.

2006

Andie Colon set a personal record in the mile by about 8 seconds with about 4:22 at the BU Mini Meet on December 30.  GBTC women break the club relay record for the 4x1600 with about 22:17, breaking the old record of 22:58.73 (results)

GBTC once again sent a team to the USATF Cross-Country Nationals where our women and men finished in 20th and 32nd places in a large, competitive field.  Read Coach Tom Derderian's race report and see Junyong Pak's pictures of the meet, as well as pictures by Bruce Davie. Tom notes that the club has sent teams to cross country nationals nearly every year since 1998, and he has put together a list of club performances at cross country nationals. 

GBTC sprinter Gary Snyder is now chair of the USATF Masters Track & Field Committee. This means Gary will have a seat on the board of directors for the national governing body of our sport, and will represent the USA at the world level at the IAAF. Gary was president of the New England chapter of the USATF in 2002 and 2004, and was president of GBTC for five years.  See a blog post on the election.

Recently, Russ Miller posted the final 2006 Grand Prix standings for the road racing season --- congratulating Ryan Aschbrenner, Brian Hare, Bruce Bond, Laura Hayden, and Cynthia Hastings for winning their divisions --- and Josh Seeherman updated the club's records and top ten lists for the track season.

On Thanksgiving morning, at the Gobble Gobble Gobble 4 miler, David Bedoya out-kicked the enitre field to win the race, and Emily Raymond fnished third in the women's race followed by Laura Hayden in fifth and Jen Lee in seventh. Others carrying the club colors included Brad Kozel, Jeff Doyon, John Blouin, Chris Smith, Ryan Kerrigan, and Joe and Bryan Doldt  (results).  At the Feaster Five, Andie Colon finished fifth overall and first in his age group, and sprinter Coach Dave Callum finished 44th overall and sixth in his age group (results).

The GBTC women and men finished second and third at the Genesee Valley Harriers Invitational cross-country meet in Rochester, New York, on November 19 (results as excel spreadsheets at the bottom of the page).  See the pictures of the week on the right.

At the USATF New England cross country championships on November 5, the men's and women's teams each finished third out of twelve and eleven teams, respectively, and the men's masters team finished eighth (results).

At a blustery Cape Cod Marathon on October 29, David Bedoya (3rd overall) and Christy Bonstelle (9th female) led seven GBTC men and women marathoners. While cheering on their marathon teammates, GBTC’s two marathon relay teams dominated the relay field. Our women’s team, GBTC Margaret Bradley Fish (Famous, Hayden, Blake, Johnson), took 1st among the women’s teams and 2nd among all relay teams to the overall relay winning team, GBTC Mixed Up Fish (Cullina, Woodward, Davie, Kozel).

Congratulations to our 2006 USATF New England Grand Prix Ironrunners: Christy Bonstelle (first woman in the club to be an Ironrunner?), Bruce Bond (for perhaps his 8th or 9th time, and Michael Olivo did it again.

The club elected a new board of directors at the annual meeting on October 24.  Many thanks to outgoing board members Ken Agabian, Jane Cullina, Katie Fobert and Jim O'Brien.

See the final results from the Topsfield Cross Country Festival at the Bradley Palmer State Park on October 8.  Good close team scores saw the GBTC men just pip BAA while the GBTC women took second.

GBTC had 41 runners in the Mayor's Cup cross country race (results), and 8 in the Chicago Marathon (results), making about a third of the membership actively racing on one day.  At the Mayor's Cup, the men and women both placed sixth, led by Brennan Bonner and Allison McCabe.

GBTC runners Kibrom Amdemichael and Ryan Kerrigan took 3rd and 4th at the Bay State Marathon in a field of 677 solidly qualifying for Boston (results).

GBTC's Emily Raymond finished fifth in the Hartford Marathon, beating the BAA's Amy Nedeau, who won the Harvard 10 mile Grand Prix on October 1, by over a minute to post the club's fastest woman's marathon of the year (result).

The GBTC women placed second to the newly-formed New Balance team in the USATF National 10K road championships, also known as the Tufts 10K for Women.  See lots of good pictures from the race by Stan Hu (results).

At the BAA Half-Marathon, David Bedoya and Lynn Johnson finished ninth in the men's and women's races, respectively (results).

The GBTC men and women placed fourth and fifth at the Apple Harvest Run in Harvard, MA, on October 1, a USATF New England Grand Prix event (results).

Several GBTC members were elected to positions on the USATF New England Board of Governors at the annual meeting of the organization last week. Dave Callum was elected as Track & Field Chairman (replacing the resigning Dave Cahill), and Bill Newsham won the election for Cross Country Chairman. Sarah Lawson and Josh Seeherman will fill the two of the three athlete representative roles. Gary Snyder remains on the board as the immediate past president, having served two terms; new USATF-NE president is Ken Robichaud of the North Medford Club.

GBTC's Emily Raymond has been awarded "elite" status for the Hartford
Marathon on October 15.  Emily won her last three road races: a half marathon in New Hampshire in 1:21, the Cape Ann 25K, and the USATF 8K Grand Prix Championships.

Allison McCabe won the Codfish Bowl cross country race, founded by GBTC founding coach Bill Squires, leading the women to second place behind Stonehill.  Brennan Bonner led the men to second. (results).

Emily Raymond won the Ollie Road Race in South Boston on September 9, leading the women to a fourth place finish, just one second behind third and six seconds behind second. Emily has won her last two races at 25 km and a half marathon. Her fall campaign is pointed toward the Hartford Marathon in October where she is seeking an Olympic Trials qualifying time.  Kit Wells led the men to a sixth place finish (results and photos).

Bill Newsham won the Jordan's 5K in New Hampshire on September 9, and Wendy Newsham finished third (results).

Kit Wells finished 37th in the nation at the USATF 20K national championship in New Haven on September 4 (results), and Emily Raymond won the classic Cape Ann 25K (results). Lynn Johnson won the Dennis Festival Days 5K on Cape Cod (results). Josh Seeherman finished second in the Irish American 5K in Malden (results).  Katie Famous and Jessica Blake finished one-two at the Walpole 10K (results). Two days earlier, on September 2, Bill Newsham finished 32nd at the UC Santa Cruz Challenge 4M cross country race (results).

GBTC athletes were named USATF New England's Althletes of the Month for the month of July for winning three trophies at the national track and field club championships.

Despite the extreme heat, GBTC had two athletes at Masters Nationals this year in North Carolina. Bob Cedrone finished 3rd in the hammer throw in his age group with a toss of 149 feet, and Sarah Lawson scored 6th and 8th in her age group in the 100 and 200 respectively. (See pictures and results.)

Hanover, NH, August 26 — GBTC's Emily Raymond and Megha Doshi took first and second in the half marathon in a couple of the better times ever run by women in GBTC. Both are preparing for fall marathons and are aiming for the Olympic Trials standard. Doshi will run in Chicago and Raymond in Hartford. CT. GBTC's David Bedoya took second in the men's race (results).

GBTC member Laura Hayden has been awarded the 2006 Margaret Bradley Award to run in the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon.

Falmouth, MA, August 13 — See pictures of club members from the Falmouth Road Race taken by Bruce Davie (results).

  Josh Seeherman has the final performance list for the 2006 outdoor season. See also Russ Miller's Grand Prix road race standings for 2006.

Newburyport, MA, August 1—GBTC runners survived the 6:30 pm Newburyport, Yankee Homecoming 10 mile race in temperatures that started at 94.9°F and 60% humidity to 87.2°F and 75% humidity or like running while wearing one of the plastic bags that your dry cleaning comes back in. Christy Bonstelle had the club star performance of the day. The men's team bolstered by visiting former member Glen Mays placed 2nd. The women's team placed 4th (results).

Stowe, VT, July 16—At the Stowe 8 Miler, GBTC women placed 3rd in open division with the help of new member Audrey Giesler who placed 6th (results). She is newly arrived from Chicago where she ran for the Universal Sole team. Jeremey Borling also from Chicago and Universal Sole led our men's team with a 9th place finish. The two of them proved to be a delightful addition to a trip that was pleasant in every respect except for the hot, humid race itself. The women's team is now third in the overall Grand Prix by one point!

GBTC took home three separate pieces of hardware at the National Club Track and Field Championships held in Walnut, CA at Mount San Antonio College (Mt. SAC) on July 15. The women won entire competition outlasting teams from Virginia and New York by winning the last event, the 4x800, in a meet record 8:51. The members of the team were Kelly Powell, Jen Lee, Caroline Occean, and Anna Willard on the anchor. Other victories included Anna Willard in the 1500 and Kateema Riettie in both the javelin and shotput, with everyone contributing points in virtually every discipline. On the men's side, in similar fashion the men secured 2nd place by winning the 4x800 as well in 7:48, with a team of Aaron Binkley, Josh Seeherman, Andie Colon, and Joe Otto. Sean Furey chipped in a victory in the javelin as the GBTC men just nipped the ConnQuest track club by a scant 5 points. As usual, GBTC was one of the largest and vocal clubs at the meet, which is a testament to our love of the sport. Kudos, as always, are directed to Dave Callum for making it possible (results).

Emily Raymond won the Bill Luti 5-Miler in Concord, New Hampshire (results).

Lynn Johnson was the fourth woman at the Little Compton Road Race in Rhode Island on July 8.

GBTC's Jen Busse won the Whirlaway 10K to become the USATF New England women's Grand Prix 10K Champion on June 25th in Methuen, MA (results). In the warmth and humidity she led the GBTC women's team to fourth place and past the BAA into second overall in the year's Grand Prix standings. The GBTC women are now three points behind the Merrimack Valley Striders, but only a point ahead of the BAA, and Whirlaway, and 2 points ahead of the Central Mass Striders. The Stowe race on July 16th will be critical. The GBTC men's team placed 6th and is standing 6th in the Grand Prix. An interesting note is that this race marks the return of Wendy Newsham to club competition. She and Bill first met through the club many years ago. It is a wonderful thing that she has come full circle. Welcome back Wendy.

GBTC men and women are champions again after winning the USATF New England Outdoor track championships (results).  That makes it 7 straight for the men and 5 of the last 6 for the women winning USATF New England Oudoor titles. That's 25 New England titles for the men and women of GBTC for the USATF indoor and outdoor championships in the last 9 years since February of 1998.

June 4th, 2006 Lincoln, RI—The Greater Boston Track Club women's team grabbed second place in the New England Grand Prix 5 km Championship (results). The team of Jen Busse, Sloan Siegrist, Laura Hyden, Lynn Johnson, and Megha Doshi scored in that order. See photos by Bruce Davie. The GBTC team is now tied for second place with Merrimack Valley Striders in the series behind the Boston Athletic Association. The next Grand Prix race will be on June 25 in the Whirlaway 10km in Meuthen, MA.

In the 200 meters at the High Performance meet on June 3, Sara O'Brien and Christine Kloiber finished one-two in 26.01 and 27.01 (results).

With better weather, GBTC had many solid performances at the second Boston High Performance meet. Sara O'Brien capped off her season debut in the 400 with a victory (57.8), and Joe Otto ran a full 18 seconds faster than in April in 1500 (4:03). PR's were also set by Jen Busse in the 1500 (4:44) and Katie Famous in the 3K (10:35). Cecily Gallup broke 2:20 in the 800 for the first time in this millenium (seriously, the last time was 1999).  See the full results.

May 17, Salisbury -- In the 17th Run for the Roses in Salisbury, MA a top GBTC team negotiated the flooded roads to race for the win in this all-women's road race, but fell short by 200 meters. Sloan Siegrist ran out to do battle with the leaders while Laura Hayden and Emily Raymond waited. 264 women ran and 7 open teams (results).

May 21, Denver —The Greater Boston Track Club women's road relay team placed 8th in the USATF National Club Road Relay Championships today in this mile-high city. The team of Cheryl Twomey, Megha Doshi, Lynn Johnson, Michelle Lang, and Laura Hayden raced the marathon distance in Eiken style legs of, 10km, 5km, 10km, 5km, 12km covering the distance in 2:53 (results).

See new pictures from the 2006 Penn Relays by Cheryl Treworgy.

May 13, New York -- On Saturday at Icahn Stadium representing GBTC, Sean Furey once again broke the club javelin record with a hurl of 72.91m (239-0) good for a second place tie to Unattached Mike Kennedy and behind winner ConnQuest's Paul Pisano (results).

Lincolndale, NY May 6th—GBTC's Jen Busse ran a personal best of 9:58 finishing in the money in the special professional Joe Wynne Memorial 3,000 meter race in the Somers Lions High School Track and Field Invitational. She traveled with her teammates and coach to break 10:00 for the first time. Her previous best was 10:08.37 in the GBTC Invitational 1/22/06. The race started very quickly with the entire field in contention for the first laps. When Ayila threw in a surge no one could follow. She eased off in the last laps under the hot sun allowing the field to almost catch up.

April 30, Brown University — Records weren't just broken at Penn Relays. On Sunday, several GBTC athletes made there way to Brown's Spring Invitational. Leading the way, Jen Hawkes broke the club high jump record, set by Anne Jennings in 1994, with her leap of 1.70 meters (5ft7in) for second place. Jen has been consistently at the 5'6 mark all indoors, and is now really opening things up as she hopes to make the club national trip. Sherita Williams took home the triple jump honors with her winning 13.20 meter jump (43ft3.75in), nearly a foot ahead of BU's Tahari James. Not bad considering she drove back from Penns Saturday night! On the men's side, Thierno Mbacke, also making the road trip back from Penn's Saturday night, earns 5th (out of 14)(57.79) in the 400m intermediate hurdles, just off his season best (results)

April 27, Philadelphia, PA—GBTC's Sloan Siegrist ran her personal best 5 km in the Olympic Development race Thursday evening in the Penn Relays (results). Siegrist previously represented Guam in the Athens Olympics running the 1500 meters. She is a graduate student in microbiology at Harvard.  The next day, in the Olympic Development races, the men came in third in the shuttle hurdle (results), tenth and thirteenth in the 4x100 (results), and eleventh and twelfth in the 4x400 (results); and the women finished third and seventh in the 4x100 (results) and fifth in the 4x400 (results).  Finally, the women's 4x100 team of Sherita Williams, Dacia Taylor, Cecily Gallup and Sara O'Brien broke the club record. Sean Furey wons the Javelin throw representing GBTC, also broke the his own club record and took home a fancy Penn Relays gold watch for his achievement. Joe Otto took home a sleek gold watch, after competing in the 4x400 A-team, ran a corporate DMR with Raytheon, and his 1200 leg contributed to his team's first place. The javelin throw by Sean Furey and women's 4x100 results were both club records.

Three GBTC runners came home with a grand total of $650 in prize money from the Anderson 5K at MIT. Jen Busse easily won the women's race over training partner and neighbor, Cheryl Twomey. Mike Panas took second in the men's race (results). Lynn Johnson won the Dean College 10K in Franklin, Massachusetts, in 39:35 (results). Thomas Young won the Architects For Humanity 5K in Brighton, Massachusetts,  in 17:41, and Aaron Binkley came in fourth (results).  For the future, Kit Wells has updated the club calendar.

At the Boston Marathon on April 17, the Greater Boston Track Club women finished 3rd and the men 7th in the team competition. Mega Doshi, Emily Raymond, and Michelle Lang ran a combined time of 9:31:01. The team of Lucas Woodward, Kit Wells, and Sarad Tomlinson added up to 8:00:26 (pictures).

At Northeastern University's Solomon Invitational on April 15, GBTC's Sherita Williams won the triple jump and GBTC's men's team won the 4x400 (results).

See the GBTC guide to the Boston Marathon, a supplement to the coming April edition of our newsletter, the Wingfoot, by editor Kit Wells.

GBTC women dominated the 5,000 meters on the track from the first lap to the finish at the Tufts Hillside Relays on April 8. Working together, training partners Jennifer Busse and Sloan Siegrist had no contest. Sherita Williams won the long jump (results).

The GBTC men won the Cohasset 10K.  Kit Wells, in preparation for the Boston Marathon or in amends for running off course in the Eastern States 20 miler last week, came to the Cohasset 10 km to win. But he hadn't counted on the vastly experienced Andrew Noble to bolt out to a quick lead with a 4:52 first mile. Wells worked with his teammate, David Bedoya, into the stiff North Atlantic winds along the coast road to reel in Noble, but by the end he remained 31 seconds ahead. Lucas Woodward ran out conservatively and worked his way to 10th with Joe Otto two places back. Along with Peter Warrington, the GBTC men won the team prize. For their team prize they got a big bag of swag including a bottle of wine, four wine glasses, five baseball hats, five sweat shirts, a leather wallet, many key rings, several gift certificates, and other mysterious stuff. Wells and Bedoya got jackets, gift certificates, bouquets of flowers, and more velvet-lined sweat shirts. Ole coach Tom Derderian got a sweat shirt and a shiny thing for mixing or shaking ice with vodka for James Bond or something (results).

At the Boston Tune-Up 15k in Upton on April Fool's Day, Emily Raymond easily won the women's race and Megha Doshi showed great recovery after her third place finish at the Eastern States 20 last Sunday. John Joseph Fialkovich valiantly tried to win the whole thing on the men' side. He pushed for the lead and almost got away with it but for three guys who nailed him in the last of the many, many hills on this tough, bucolic course. Conservative starting Tomoaki Uchiki closed with in seconds of Fialkovich, followed shortly by Sam Blasiak. Young Sarad Tomlinsu continues to show that he has a great future as a long distance runner (results).

Bridget Montgomery has been named the 2006 winner of the Margaret Bradley Award.  Bridget runs with the Universal Sole Track Club in Chicago and will come here to run the Boston Marathon.  (See her Universal Sole biography.) Later in the year, a member of GBTC will be named an award winner to run Chicago.

Steven Franklin won the Loco Moose 6K in Brockton on March 25 (results).

Another medal for Geraldine Pillay! In the 200m at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, Geraldine (GBTC 60m indoor record holder) avenged her 100m loss to Jamaica's Sheri-Ann Brooks (5th in the 200), but instead fell victim to two other Jamaican born sprinters, Sherone Simpson and Veronica Campbell. Geraldine completes her 2006 games with a bronze medal in the 200m, running 22.92, to go along with her silver in the 100m dash.

Sherita Williams won the Raleigh Relays triple jump by nearly 4 feet with a new personal best smashing her club outdoor record with a 13.44 meter hop-skip-jump (44'1.25''). Also competing in the cool temperatures, Theirno Mbacke opened his season with a 59.70 in the intermediate hurdles and club friend Ray Smith was challenged in the long jump by irregular winds in his 10th (of 40) place 22'7 (6.88 meters).  (Full results)

Sloan Siegrist (37:17.21) broke the Guam National 10K record at the Northeastern Snowflake meet, running second to GBTC's Jen Busse (37:15.41). Laura Hayden (38:20), Cheryl Twomey (38:29) and Maegan Chaggaris (39:29) rounded out the 10K cast. Maybe the ladies should attend bacherolette parties the night before every race! Mbathio Diarra completes the female roster with her race in the 200m in 29.91. All in all, the women took 5 of the top 6 spots, and one through four in the 10,000 meters.   Equally exciting, a battle for the top three spots in the men's 10K, each within 5 seconds at the line, we had Ted Breen running down 1st place just steps behind at the finish in 33:27.46. Coach Tom Derderian also made his presence known in the 10K. In other events, David Cahill opened up well with an 800 in 2:04.40 for 6th place, while Mike Panas took a measure of his current basework beating a third of the competition. Ryan Croteau and Will Feldman each ran their first 1500m track races EVER, in 4:39 and 4:49 respectively. (Full results)

At the Indoor Master's Nationals, Sarah Lawson took bronze in the 40-44 200m, running down her medal in the final straight. This medal will go nicely with her gold in the 60m dash (8.64). Also on Sunday Jim Watts battled with more than a dozen half-milers for position in the 40-44 bracket. Gary Snyder was 4th in the 60-64 60m dash (9.01) and Richard Sobel also 4th in the 55-59 high jump (4'7). Marc Fish was 2nd in the 40-44 pole vault with his 12'5.5 performance. And in the 35-39 bracket, John Raguin earns a bronze in the 3000m (9:36.00). (Full results)

At the New Bedford Half Marathon on March 19, the Greater Boston Track Club opened the USATF New England Grand Prix season with a 4th place finish by the women's open team with Laura Hayden, Jen Busse, and Cheryl Twomey in the scoring positions. The open men finished 7th a mere one second behind Greater Lowell! David Bedoya and Kit Wells topped the team with personal records. Bedoya will be joining the GBTC men's Boston Marathon defending championship team (results).

Josh Seeherman has updated his club performance list and record list, and Kit Wells has published the March edition of the Wingfoot, our club newsletter.

GBTC men's and women's team repeated wins today in the Hyannis Half Marathon with GBTC's Lynn Johnson winning for the second year in a row. GBTC Josh Sohn placed 3rd, one spot down from last year. The news of the day is Cheryl Twomey in her first race for the club running second to Johnson. The day gave the runners slow times with blustery winds and roads with slippery spots. The next big race will be the Grand Prix half marathon in New Bedford on March 19th (results).

Kit Wells has updated the club calendar, Josh Seeherman has updated the club performance list, and Dave Callum has taken pictures from the third BU All-Comers Meet in December.

Sherita Williams was named Athlete of the Month by USATF New England for her record-setting performance at the GBTC Invitational in January.

Champions again! The GBTC men and women have won the USATF New England Indoor Track & Field Championships on February 19.  This makes the sixth win in a row for the women, and the men have won seven of the last eight years. 

The same weekend, the GBTC women finished second in the 8K race at the National Cross-Country Championships in New York. Our GBTC team lined up with pretty much all the internationally known American women distance runners on Saturday, February 18, in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx in NYC in the USA Cross-country Championships. The scene felt more like the winter Olympics with snow squalls dancing across the course. Our team was Jess Busse, Maegan Chaggaris, Carol Geddes, and Emily Raymond. It was a hard race run in tough conditions after a long trip. Ours are tough runners who valiantly put the club name up on the score board (pictures).

The club returned again to Boston University for the annual Saint Valentine's Meeting on February 10-11. This year, the meet was enormous; the largest meet ever held at the new BU facility. GBTC had many excellent performances and personal bests. The women competed Friday night (until almost midnight !), and Sherita Williams continued her undefeated streak by winning the triple jump. Reminiscent of 2003 when 3 women's club records fell, 2 more fell on Friday as Sloan Siegrist topped the 20-year old record in the 3K with a stellar 9:51. Anne Baker, a former top DIII thrower for U-Rochester, shattered the old weight throw mark with a 15 meter heave. Elsewhere, Sara O'Brien won her heats of both the 400 and the 200. On the men's side, former Harvard standout Alasdair McLean-Foreman ran an excellent 8:12 in the 3K to place to take 2nd overall. Joe Otto continued his PR binge by running the first 1:52 of his career and winning his heat, and Langston Dugger dropped under 50 seconds (49.6) for the first time this season. The men's meet was highlighted by excellent races in the mile and 800, with Matt Lincoln's 4:03 and Sam Burley's 1:46 (results for men and women, and a coach's report on the meet).

  On Sunday, February 5th, a few lone runners represented GBTC well at the Great Stew Chase 15K. Christy Bonstelle and Jenny Thomas flew over the course in times of 1:04:20 and 1:08:03, good for 7th and 11th place respectively. On the men's side, Jason Dunklee finished the race in 7th place with a time of 55:07 (results).

GBTC was out in force at the venerable Terrier Classic January 27-28 with many excellent times, rising to the occasion and running tremendous seasonal bests over previous times earlier in the year.  Friday night, Joe Otto PR'd in the 800 winning his heat and placing 4th (1:53), and Langston Dugger also won his heat of the 400 and led off the relay in a 49.7.  Elsewhere on the track, Kit Wells and Sam Blasiak steamrolled to personal bests in the 3K as they hovered near the 9:00 barrier.  On Saturday, the women met the challenge and ran even better.  Emily Raymond and Jen Busse flew around the track in the 5K running 17:06 and 17:09, #2 and #3 all-time for the club.  Jane Cullina won her heat of the 800 in a time 5 seconds faster than the week before, and Caroline Occean (a BU alumnae) returned to her home track and won her heat of the 500.  Laura Hayden ran her personal best within a second of the club record in the mile with a 4:58.45. The winning prize however, goes to Sloan Siegrist who ran a full 12 seconds faster in the 3K from last weekend and almost broke the club record (9:52) (full results for men and women).

See the full results of the GBTC Invitational held January 22.  GBTC member Sherita Williams jumped 44' 3/4" in the triple jump, setting a new personal record, club record, meet record,  facility record, and setting fifth best jump in the world this year, breaking the meet record set by Toronto's Althea Williams in 2000.  Nike's Jen Toomey ran 4:32.28 in the Invitational Mile, which would have been the second fastest mark in the country in 2005, setting both a meet record and track record for the mile, breaking the meet record set by New Balance's Kathy Flemming in 1999.  Rumors are that several other people qualified for nationals. 

On January 15th, a small contingent of GBTCers took to the track at the first Tufts Invitational of the new year. GBTC was led by Sherita Williams who obliterated the competition with a 43 foot triple jump, breaking her own club record, the facility record, and becoming the first GBTC woman this season to qualify for the USATF national championships in February at our own Reggie Lewis facility. Emily Raymond ran a season PR in the 5000 placing second (17:37 - only losing to an All-American from Williams), and Sloan Siegrist opened her season with a 3rd place finish in the 1500. On the men's side, Dan Conti placed 2nd in the pole vault, Joe Otto ran an excellent 1000 meter run to finish 3rd, and the relay team of Langston Dugger, Jerome Mauris, Francis Shen, and Joe Otto ran unopposed in the second heat taking 3rd place overall. The hurdlers also competed well with all three athletes in the Top 10 (results).

A GBTC jumper took second place at Dartmouth! New GBTC member Jen Hawkes jumped 5'5" (1.65m) to take second place in the Dartmouth relays high jump on Sunday January 8 (full results). She is from Chicopee, MA and a recent graduate of Mt Holyoke College.  The club record in the High Jump is 1.68m set by Anne Jennings 1994.

The Greater Boston Track Club is looking for donors and sponsors interested in supporting the club's activities, such as funding team travel to regional and national meets and other forms of support for our athletes. 

2005

On December 31, after the development meet at BU, GBTC members formed teams to run again in the jolly Lou's 4x1600 Relay. All of our runners except Jen Busse had already run one or two events. The event was great fun with a couple of our runners, Peter Warrington and Brian Lankiewicz, running about 5 minutes for other pick up teams. Jen's time figures to be a 5:07.12 mile by extrapolating for the additional 9 meters.  The men's team finished in 19:25.04: Didier Pramil 4:41.90; Tomaoki Uchiki  4:56.5; John Blouin 4:55.7; Bruce Davie 4:50.6. The women's team finished in 22:58.73: Jen Busse 5:06.99; Christy Bonstelle 6:15.4; Margaret Nervegna 5:47.7; Carol Geddes 5:48.7.

See pictures of the USATF New England Cross Country Championships on November 6 by Laura Hayden and Jane Cullina.

GBTC was well-represented at the BU Mini Meet on the last day of the year.  Andie Colon's 800 was inspiring as he taught a painful last-lap lesson to the boys who tried to beat him. GBTC also had two teams in the 4x1600 relay. Men were Didier Pramil, the French Guy, Tomoaki Uchkik, the Japanese Guy, Bruce Davie, the Australian Guy, and John Blouin, the Native Son. Women were new member, Jen Busse, who ran a personal best mile in her lead off of 5:05, Christy Bonstelle, Carol Geddes, and tripling for the day, the Darn Tough Margaret Nervegna. Langston Dugger and Mohamed Carew are new to the club as is master runner David Burgess (results).

Josh Seeherman has started his list of indoor track performances by club members during the 2005-2006 indoor track season.  Watch this list grow by clicking on the Results link in the menu to the left.

New GBTC members, Brian Lankiewicz, and Jennifer Busse, ran in this week's Boston University mini-meet. Lankiewicz in a recent grad of UMass Lowell and Busse of University of New Hampshire. Busse is moving this week from her family home in Brookline, NH to Brookline, MA. She posted the day's best woman's mile time of 5:11. Andie Colon continues to impress with his move from racing the 400 to battles in the mile (full results with few affiliations listed).

Joe Otto, running in his first track season for GBTC, posted a personal best in the mile at the Boston University development meet on Saturday, Dec 17. He ran 4:22.29. Joe was a Division III indoor All- American in the 800 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a native of West Seneca, NY. Ryan Croteau easily ran his personal best in the mile 4:59.72 since this was his first track race, ever. The dazzling duo of Laura Hayden and Sloan Siegrist ran one and two in the 3000 meters (10:01.81, 10:03.61 ) and Hayden came back to win the mile (5:07.02) (full results, but few club affiliations listed).

See the December edition of the Wingfoot newsletter just released by our newsletter editor, Kit Wells.

At the Harvard Invitational track meet on December 10, Emily Raymond won the 5000m race, starting in last place and overtaking each runner to astonish the crowd with a blazing final lap to win by less than a half second in 17:48.27, and Sloan Siegrist and Laura Hayden followed for 3rd and 4th. Rebekah Conway again rewrote the women's weight throw club record (2001, 11.70m) with her 12.68m heave for 7th place (out of 27), improving by over two feet from last week. Club President, Bruce Davie, showed a great kick in the mile in 4:44.57 for 25th out of about 42 kids half his age! Sam Blasiak ran his personal best in the mile. Francis Shen and Dave Cahill both ran 1:06 for 5th and 6th in the 500. And GBTC continues its hurdling dominance with three in the finals: Matt LeMaire (3), Francis Shen (4), Dan Conti (7). Joe Otto ran a speedy 50.9 speedy 3rd leg in the mile relay to help Dave Cahill, Francis Shen, and Andy Colon take 4th in 3:26.28 (results, pictures).

Members can now pay track fees and make other payments to the club by clicking on "Pay a bill" in the menu on the left.

The Greater Boston Track Club will have 24 athletes competing in the Harvard Invitational  on Saturday, December 10, starting at 10:30 am. Sloan Siegrist will try to keep her position at the top of the 5000 meter club performance list. She ran her personal best last week but will be closely pursued by Laura Hayden, Emily Raymond, and Katie Famous. The men's mile will see the track debut of Joe Otto who may top the week-old club performance list by eclipsing Jay Slowik's 4:25. Andi Colon will jump onto the track for his first 800 since last spring. Club president, masters runner Bruce Davie, will mix it up with the college youngsters in the mile. He plunked down a seed time of 4:42. Board member Dan Conti will pole vault. The fans will be warming the stands waiting to see what happens in all the competitions.

GBTC sent a small group to the Northeastern Husky Winter Carnival held at Reggie Lewis on Saturday. The women's team was led by Sloan Siegrist who obliterated her old 5K best with a 17:53 PR for 3nd place. Additionally, despite being cut-off, Sara O'Brien placed 4th in the 400 (60.4). On the men's side, returning sprinter Kwesi Frimpong was 3rd in the 55m dash in 6.55, and Jay Slowik ran the mile in 4:25 for 5th (results).

At the Cross Country Nationals in Rochester, New York, our women's team placed 16 out of 20 and our men's team 24 out of 37 (full results, pictures).  Thanks to everyone who endured this epic 800 mile trek to represent the club at the national level so well.

Lucas Woodward and Joe Otto finished fourth and fifth at the Larry Robinson 10Miler in Andover, coming in second and third in their age groups (results).

The GBTC women placed second and men third yesterday in the New England USATF cross-country championships on November 6. See full results and pictures by Laura Hayden.

In the final USATF New England Grand Prix standings, the open women finished third, the open men finished fifth, the 40+ men finished fifth, and the 50+ men finished sixth. Congratulations to everyone representing the club in this important New England series.  Russ Miller has compiled the final standings in the club's Grand Prix competition. 

The Cape Cod Marathon on October 30 was the final event in this New England Grand Prix series.  In that race, Lucas Woodward, Sarad Tomlinson, and Sam Blasiak led our men and Kristy Gould, Jenny Thomas, and Sarah Haines led our women (unofficial results). In other Cape Cod news, GBTC took the men’s and women’s titles in the Dunkin’ Donuts Relay, as part of the Cape Cod Marathon, honoring their former teammate and a former Falmouth High School track and cross country star Margaret L. Bradley, who died in the Grand Canyon last year.

On the same day, October 30, Janson Dunklee won the Oak Scare! YMCA 5K in Brighton, and Eric Tucker finished second in the Gingerbread 5K in Wellesley. Eric just joined us, having moved here this fall from New Orleans, and Jason has recently returned to us after studying
in Germany.  

The October edition of the club newsletter, The Wingfoot, is now available, thanks to our editor Kit Wells.

Katie Famous has been awarded the second half of the 2005 Margaret L. Bradley Award. The award is for travel to compete in the Chicago Marathon on October 9th. The second half of the yearly award is given by the Universal Sole running club of Chicago. In the spring the GBTC gave the first half of the award to Katie Wales, a Universal Sole athlete, to compete in the Boston Marathon.

See the results of the Topsfield Cross Country Festival held one misty morning on October 9, and be sure to sign up for this low-key cross country race held on the grounds of the beautiful Bradley Palmer State Park in Topsfield next year. 

The women won and the men came in second at the Harrier Classic (Codfish Bowl) cross-country race at Franklin Park on September 24.  The women we led by Maegan  Chaggaris, Laura  Hayden, and Amanda Labelle (results); and the men were led by Michael Pieck, Josh Sohn, and Ryan Aschbrenner (results).

The GBTC women dominated the Cape Ann 25K this year, with Johanna Thomas, Meagan Chaggaris, Lynn Johnson, Katie Fobert, and Jenny Thomas, all winning or finishing in the top five of their age groups.  For the men, Calvin Ma finished in 8th place overall (results, pictures).  The same day, the women and men finished second and third at the Acushnet Road Race. Laura Hayden, bothered by a scratchy throat, raced to defend her title but was unable to do so. She still holds the course record.  John Blouin did battle the men into battle (results). The same weekend, Kit Wells placed 59th out of 2017 runners in the National 20 km held in New Haven (results), Emily Raymond won the Irish America 5K and Hugh Jessup ran in the 10K (results), and Bill Newsham finished 6th in the Phil Widener Empire Open masters cross-country race in Windsor, California (results).

Margaret Nervegna and Bryan Doldt finished 32 and 33 in their age groups in the New England Triathlon Tour on August 21 (results).  The same day Lynn Johnson and Maegan Chaggaris and Jessica Blake finished 2 and 3 and 6 in Runaways 5 Miler in North Attleboro (results).

Colin McArdle and Ted Breen battled a horrendous hill in horrible heat and humidity to finish first and eleventh in their age groups at the Bridge of Flowers 10K on August 13, and Ted finished twelfth overall (results). The next day, there were a slew of good performance by club members at the Falmouth Road Race. We had three men among the top 100 overall, and six women among the top 100 women. See the race report by Kit Wells (formal results unavailable).

Coach Tom Derderian wrote about Coaches Arthur Lydiard and Jack Daniels in his column in the January issue of New England Runner.  Take a minute to read the column.

Sarad Tomlinson and Kit Wells finished fifth and sixth at the Yankee Homecoming 5K on a steamy August 4 only two days after a hot, hard ten-miler in Newburyport. These are tough guys (results).

GBTC women and men placed second and fourth out of 14 and 13 teams at the Yankee Homecoming 10 Miler on August 2.  See pictures and full results.

Josh Seeherman has posted the final outdoor track performance list for the year, and Russ Miller has updated the road grand prix standings.

The same weekend, GBTC had 21 runners travel to the Stowe 8 Miler to top off a super weekend for the club. A special note must be made for those three club members who competed in both the track championship and the road race. Brad Kozol, Katie Famous, and John Joseph Fialkovich raced the 5,000 in New York and traveled in five states to get to Vermont (results).

See the latest issue of the Wingfoot published by Kit Wells. See also photos of the Boston Marathon taken by Kit.

At Lynn Woods in the heat of forest on July 20, GBTC's PJ Donovan won the women's long race over 6.5 miles of mostly loose rocks. A rabid raccoon failed to delay the race (results).

Bob LaPlante won the Sandwich 5 Mile race on July 9, winning by 12 seconds in 27:38 (results). Katie Fobert won the Fresh Pond 2.5 mile race in just under 15 minutes, and Jenny Lee came in second in the 5 mile race in 33 minutes plus change. Sam Blasiak came in fourth at the Khoury's Summer Steamer 4 mile race in Somerville on July 10 (results), and Ed Breen came in 23rd in a 5 mile race in Belmar, NJ.

Measure your favorite running route with this neat hack based on Google maps.

The women and men finished first and second at the USATF Eastern Regional Championships in New Jersey on July 2. Be sure to see the final results.

At the USATF National Championships in Carson, California, Sherita Williams placed 17th (out of 23 competitors) with her 12.76m jump (41-10.50) (pictures). Conditions were not great, with swirling winds and some trouble getting her rhythm down the runway. Sherita is looking to get back on track and exact her revenge on the pits, this weekend at the Eastern Regional Championships in Pomona, New Jersey, competing in the Long Jump and Triple Jump, followed two weeks later by Club Nationals on Randall's Island, New York.

It was a hot and humid race at the Whirlaway 10K on June 26, but about a dozen club runners suffered through slow conditions to ring up fifth and seventh places for the women's and men's teams. Catherine Moroski is the hero of the day for filling in at the last moment for three of our top women who for various last minute reasons were unable to race. Congratulations to all who suffered through this long march (results and pictures).

See the results of A Midsummer Lights Relay run through the night on June 24. The GBTC team broke the old record of 66 miles!

GBTC Heads to the Big Apple July 15th-17th. For the fifth straight year, GBTC will be participating in the Club National Championships held at the new Icahn Stadium on Randalls Island in New York City. Overall national champions in 2002 and runners-up in 2003 and 2004, GBTC looks to extend the history of excellence in 2005 competing against the nation's best. Our club is one the original teams that competed at the first organized championship in 2001 and always brings the loudest most enthusiastic group (much to the jealousy of the other smaller teams). This year, our teams look stronger than ever, particularly with the return of one of our top sprinters, Stan Egbor, and the addition of another, Kwesi Frimpong-Boateng. The men's throws are much improved as well with a whole new group of javelineers waiting to scoop up some points. On the women's side we have added a slew of long sprinters and middle distance runners. Standouts also include Sherita Williams, a nationally ranked horizontal jumper, and Kateema Riettie, our new club record holder in the javelin. With the new venue closer to home, this championship will surely be the most competitive yet. The club is always looking to increase our participation rate at Club Nationals especially in the longer distances for more info contact Coach Dave Callum (david_callum@yahoo.com).

Results are in: GBTC takes it all! GBTC won both the both the men's and women's championships in convincing fashion this past Sunday at MIT's Steinbrenner Track, 80-19-17 over Lincoln Tornado and Reebok Boston for women, and 83-26-17 ahead of Boston North and Reebok Boston on the men's side. On the women's side Sarah O'Brien anchored both relays and scored in both the 200 and 400, and Sloan Siegrist set a mammoth PR in the 1500, nearly breaking the club record. The men were paced by a deep hurdle crew and a surprisingly large group of throwers; Rich DeStefano led the throwers with an outright win in the javelin.

Next up, GBTC's Sherita Williams heads to Carson, California, for the 2005 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships seeded 12th in the country in triple jump competition. Kateema Reittie heads off to Jamaica for Nationals where she will fight for the top spot in the Javelin, followed by the Caribbean Championships in Nassau, Bahamas. Both return to team competition on July 15-16th for Club Nationals. A small group of club athletes head to NYC this weekend June 26th for a practice run at the Icahn Stadium (location of club nationals) on Randall's Island in the Metropolitan Outdoor Championships (the NY version of New Englands).

Where in the World, Past GBTC Members:

Member through outdoor 2001: Johann Jack is 51st in the US for 100m with his 10.34 at Mt. SAC Relays (http://relays.mtsac.edu/2005/). His time is a US National B-standard qualifier. Running for the US Marine Corp and the US High Performance squad out of San Diego, California, Johann just completed a series of four competitions in Canada (http://www.pacificanada.ca/) the second week of June following his early May competition at the Modesto Relays (http://www.modestorelays.org/).

Member during indoor 2001-2002: Geraldine Pillay of South Africa is ranked 6th in the world (http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/index.html) in the 100m with her 11.07 and 14th in the world in the 200m with her 22.78. She plans to contend for top World honors this summer in Helsinki, Finland this August for the 2005 IAAF World Championships.

At the televised Reebok Grand Prix on June 11, Sherita Williams placed second in the triple jump with a 13.18m (43-3). She is the triple jump record holder at Michigan State and is a two-time All-American. Kateema Riettie PR'd in the javelin with a heave of 54.91m (180'!). She is ranked all-time for Jamaica in the javelin, and was only beaten today by the American record holder, Kim Kreiner. See profiles of these two great athletes.

At the Boston High Performance meet in the heat and humidity, on June 11, Sarah O'Brien ran 57.0 outkicking old friend Catherine Regan and running the second fastest time in club history. Josh Seeherman out-kicked the field and won the Open 800 (results).

Matt Lyons finished 18 out of 1200 at the Market Square 10K in Portsmouth on June 11 (results).

At the Rhody 5K on June 5, Colin McArdle won the 60+ age group and lead the seniors team to fourth place (he then went off to win his age group at the Corrib 5K in West Robury!). After this race, the women are third and men fifth in the USATF NE Grand Prix series. (results). Russ Miller has updated the GBTC Grand Prix series standings.

With overcast skies, GBTC was well represented at the first Boston High Performance meet at Bentley College. The club was led by a surprisingly easy 21.1 by Stanley Egbor in the 200, edging Ajay Sisodia of Wheaton College. Moving up in distance Sarah O'Brien won the open 800, and Carol Geddes won the open 3K with a new PR. Old friend Joanie Bohlke won the invitational 3K, also with a PR (results).

The club had 22 runners in the Bedford 12K on May 21. Maegan Chaggaris gets club honors for a leading performance placing 8th in the women's race and new member Ryan Aschbrenner placed 10th in the men's race. Jessica Blake ran her best race in a long time to score third on our women's team. The women's and men's teams are now third and fifth in the USATF New England Grand Prix (results).

Our own Francis Shen ran in the 2005 Margaret Bradley Memorial 10K in Chicago on May 22. The race is in memory of Margaret Bradley, and served as the USATF-Illinois 10K Championship this year, featuring over $2,000 in prize money (results for women and men).

Maegan Chaggaris won the Portsmouth 5K in New Hampshire on May 7, just ahead of Cathy O'Brien, who was the youngest Olympic Trials qualifier in 1984 at the first USA Women Olympic Trials marathon in Olympia, Washington (results). The same day, Sherida Bird came in second at the Big Lake Half-Marathon along Lake Winnipesaukee (results).

Josh Seeherman has started the 2005 outdoor performance list. See past seasons, too.

At the prestigious Penn Relays, GBTC men won the Olympic Development Shuttle Hurdle Relay (Shen, LeMaire, Collins, Conti, results), the GBTC women placed third in the Olympic Development 4x100 (Sarah Lawson, Nastaran Shams, Caroline Finlay, Sara O'Brien, results), placed third in the Olympic Development 4x400 (Nastaran Shams, Jane Cullina, Caroline Occean, Sara O'Brien, results) in under 4:00 for only the third time in club history, and Francis Shen and Matt Collins placed 2nd and 3rd in their heats of the 400 hurdles (results).

Professor Jim Reardon, now at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, finished 15th at the Merrimack River Trail Race on April 16 (results).

Catherine Moroski was the first woman in the 10K at MIT on April 23, finishing in 40:15. Mark Tompkins finished third in the Running Crab Half Marathon with a 1:12. Eight members ran in a rainy, windy James Joyce Ramble 10K on April 24, with strong finishes by Bruce Davie, Maegan Chaggaris, Dick Nickerson, and Tom Whitney. Dick, a long-time member, finished higher in his age group than anyone else in the club, Maegan's race may have been her fastest, and Tom's was a good comeback from the marathon.

The GBTC men won the Boston Marathon Team Prize at the Boston Marathon on April 18. Marzuki Stevens, Josh Sohn, and Ian Nurse were the scoring members of the team, and they ran a total time faster that the Greater Lowell Road Runners, the Boston Athletic Association, and 53 other teams. There were many strong teams racing this year, and all had a chance to win, but as Bill Rodgers has said, "The marathon will humble you." Bradley Award winner Katie Wales finished in 3:04:54, which is exactly the same time that Margaret Bradley ran in the 2004 Boston Marathon herself!

Katie Wales received the inaugural Margaret L. Bradley award at a club reception just two days before the Boston Marathon. See pictures by Stan Hu.

Get the April issue of the Wingfoot newsletter.

Today at the not-so-warm very windy Tufts track GBTC faired admirably against the collegiate competition. The meet was highlighted by winning both 4x400 meter relays, anchored by Sarah O'Brien and Matt Collins respectively. The club also won the men's 4x100 by a huge margin. Matt and Francis Shen went 1-2 in the 400 intermediate hurdles, Sarah O'Brien won the 400, and Caroline Occean finished second in the 1500. Speedy Stan Egbor and Kwesi Boateng went 1-2 in the 100, and Stan additionally won the 200. A great tune-up meet and great publicity. Full results (eventually) at gojumbos.com.

In the Upton, MA, 15K Boston Marathon Tune up race, GBTC's Marzuki Stevens demonstrated his fitness with a win finishing a mile ahead of second place. Stevens ran the fastest marathon of any New Englander in 2004 with a 2:22 in Chicago. He will join Josh Sohn, Ian Nurse, John Blouin and others at Boston. Becca was 5th woman even tho the result have a "M" after her name. She will be on the GBTC Boston women's team defending their Boston Marathon title (results).

At the Cohasset Road Race by the Sea on April 3, Brad Kozel finished 7 minutes faster than last year, and Laura Hayden and Maegan Chaggaris were the second and third women.

Maegan Chaggaris, Lynn Donahue, Julie McGee, Amanda LaBelle, Arielle Slam, Carol Geddes all ran personal bests at the Bedford Half Marathon. There were 32 club runners in this first USATF-NE Grand Prix race of the season. The women finished third (by just 39 seconds out of first), the men finished sixth, the men's seniors finished ninth, and the men's masters finished tenth (results).

Josh Seeherman has updated the track performance and top ten lists.

Colin McArdle won the mile and 3000 at the National US Indoor Masters Championships in Boise, Idaho over the March 11 weekend (results).

At Stu's 30K, Maegan Chaggaris won the women's race by a large margin, over seven minutes, running a minute faster than last year on a day slowed by big winds. JR Cruz tried to defend his title from last year, but finished second, running with John Blouin for most of the way. Blouin placed third (results).

At the Jones Town and Country 10 Miler in Amherst on February 27, Teddy Breen, John Fialkovich, and Marzuki Stevens raced ten miles against stiff winds, stiff competition and steep hills in Amherst Massachusetts. Teddy took the lead after a mile then thought better of it and let someone else, one Paul Lowe, take over and win the race. Teddy finished in around 58 minutes about two minutes slower than last year. He vows to come back again next year to steal the title away from Mr. Lowe. Fialkovich ran with long socks and mean stride breaking the 61minute barrier and a few of his toes. Marzuki hobbled along on a sore hip to a fifth-place finish some two minutes slower than his effort there last year in 55:17. Afterward, we had good coffee and conversation at a local cool-cats cafe in Amherst (results).

At the Hyannis Half Marathon on February 27, Josh Sohn took second and Lynn Johnson won, and GBTC women took the top five places! At the Hyannis Marathon, Julie McGee qualified for Boston with an "easy" 3:30 first marathon. It was a remarkable day with personal records by Maegan Chaggaris, Kathryn Fobert, and Michelle Lang. Ian Nurse was hit by a car! (results)

At the USATF National Championships on February 27, our women's Distance Medley Relay team broke the club record by over 3 seconds; they rocked with an official 12:06.29! At the finishline, Caroline Occean in her first full season back to the track after graduating from BU, ran a tough 3:39.1 split in the 1200 first leg of the DMR, followed by a marvelously impressive season best and rumor has it personal best 400m leg by Nastaran Shams in 61.1, handing off to a strong 2:22.1 half mile leg by Jane Cullina going out in 31 on her first lap, and finishing off the relay in a stellar 5:03.7 was Laura Hayden. Awesome job! (results)

On February 20th, the GBTC women succesfully defended their USATF New England track titles. The women were locked in close battle with AirTime Athletics but managed to pull it off with a winning mile relay. The men won a bit more comfortably, with the sprint crew looking as strong as ever (results).

The February issue of our club newsletter, The Wingfoot Express, has been published by our new editor, Kit Wells. Many thanks to Kit for taking up the reins. And while you are in the mood for reading, check out the new club brochure (6.1M). The brochure will be distributed to attract new members to the club.

On February 12th, the club competed at the annual St. Valentine Invitational at Boston University. The team was led by two excellent 4x400 relays anchored by Francis Shen and Laura Hayden respectively. Chris Westfield cleared 15 feet in the pole vault, and the club saw the return of Mark Tompkins in the 1000. Next up is the scored USATF New England meet on February 20th (results).

On February 5th GBTC barnstormed the Tufts Invitational in Medford and came away with a number of impressive performances. Kwesi Frimpong-Boateng, Wayne Burwell, and Jason Jackson went 1-2-3 in the 55 meter dash (6.4), and Stan Egbor won the 200 meters (22.2 on a flat track). Andie Colon finished 2nd in the 600 as well (1:24). On the field side, Adrian Shears won the high jump with a 6-6 clearance, and Chris Westfield returned to action by winning the pole vault in 14-9. Not to be outdone, Laura Hayden and Sloan Siegrist went 1-2 in the 1500 running 4:43 and 4:44 respectively.

Also on February 5th, old friend and club record holder Joanie Bohlke ran the 800m invitational down at the Armory in New York. Now representing Reebok, she ran an excellent 2:08, which places her in the Top 125 in the world.

Adrien Ricci has been named the first recipient of the Margaret L. Bradley Award. A reception for Adrien will be held on the evening of Saturday, April 16th at the home of Bruce Davie and Christy Bonstelle. This fully catered event will serve as a fundraiser for the Award. Anyone interested in attending can contact Bruce Davie (drbruced@gmail.com) to purchase a ticket or for more information.

Josh Sohn and Maegan Chaggaris each raced to second place on the hilly Derry, New Hampshire, course at the Boston Prep 16 Miler on February 6. A new course record was established in both men's and women's races. Josh claims that the hills --- including a 200 feet of elevation gain between miles 10 and 12 --- were not that bad, but a side stitch would have cost him 2nd place if the race had been 1/4 mile longer. John Blouin came in 10th, breaking 6-minute miles and starting the trend of age-group prizes for GBTC. Meagan Chaggaris was 2nd female (under the old course record) and set a half-marathon PR en route. New member Sara Donohue was 4th woman and won her age-group, followed by Katie Fobert (2nd in age-group) and Michelle Lang. Making a welcome return to form was Christy Bonstelle, who also took 2nd in her age-group. Tom Whitney rounded out the pack of GBTC finishers with a solid sub-8 per mile performance. The award ceremony consisted of a steady transfer of bottles of maple syrup from the awards desk to the GBTC table. Look for a big GBTC pancake breakfast in the near future (results and pictures).

At the the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on January 29, Bruce Davie placed ninth in the masters' mile with a season's best 4:40.26, and former member Johan Jack ran 6.89 for eighth in the 60m. See photos here and here.

GBTC's Merzudin Ibric continues to move up in the national rankings with his time of 22.11 in the 200m this past weekend at the BU Track and Tennis Pavillion. He is now tied for fifth nationally according to the DyeStat Elite listings as of January 28. Merzudin, from Revere High School, was ninth overall in the championship section of Saturday's Boston University Invitational and first among high school competitors.

At the Boston University Invitational on January 29, Kwesi Frimpong-Boateng earned an overall second place finish in the 55m dash with a time of 6.36. Stanley Egbor earned third place overall honors in the 200m with his 21.52. Both races rank among GBTC's top 5 all-time 55m and 200m times. Stanley is a mere 28 hundredTHs of a second away from his indoor club record, while Kwesi's dash is .07 seconds away from breaking Egbor's club record. This duo will surely rewrite club records throughout our indoor and outdoor campaigns! Lookout 4x100 record! Sloan Siegrist breaks the Guam National record in the 3000m with her 9:59.79. Club Distance Medley Relay of Laura Hayden, Jane Cullina, Caroline Occean, Michelle Lang run an excellent 12:17.51, for fourth place at the BU Invite, as we prepare our USATF National qualified team to compete on the February 27th weekend competition (results).

Josh Seeherman has started his list of 2004-2005 indoor track performances, has updated his list of club records and top-ten performance lists, and has drafted the 2004-2005 indoor track schedule.

The winners of the club's Road Racing Grand Prix competition are Marzuki Stevens (Open), Laura Hayden (Open), Bruce Davie, (Master), and Bruce Bond (Senior). Bruce Bond, Tom Whitney, and Bill Newsham are USATF New England "Iron Runners" for running in all seven USATF New England Grand Prix races.

Sloan Siegrist and Michelle Lang ran personal bests in the 3K at the Boston University development meet on January 2 (results).

Becca Pizzi won her age group and finished fourth in the Run 4 New Year's Day race in Waltham on January 1.

GBTC's Sloan Siegrist won the 5,000 at the Harvard Invitational in 18:27 overtaking a Trinity runner in the last laps. Katie Famous placed 3rd. Chris Westfield won the pole vault. Laura Hayden placed second in the mile after falling in the crowed early laps, Jonna Tilgner took second in the 800, Kwesi Frimong-Boateng took second in the 60 (after winning his prelim), and many others ran well, too (results).

2004

GBTC ran in 10% of the country on Thanksgiving. Jo Thompson and Tom Cotter ran well in the Somerville Gobble Gobble four-miler (results). Lynn Johnson, Jessica Blake, and Katie Fobert finished 1, 2, and 4 in the Easton Turkey Chase (results). Carol Geddes finished sixth in the Trot Off Your Turkey in Barrington, Rhode Island, against a strong field of women (results). And Maegan Chaggaris won the Turkey Trot in York, Maine. Jesse Raver and Ryan Croteau finished 1 and 2 in the Amherst Turkey Trot (results). Tom Richardson ran in the five-mile Turkey Trot in Madison, CT. Andre Perreault came in 9th place in the Gardner Turkey Trot five-miler. Andi Colon and David Callum finished 5th and 18th in the Methuen three-mile Alumni race on Wednesday. Josh Seeherman finished 25th in the Turkey Trot in Brooklyn, New York. And Josh Sohn won the PGA West Turkey trot on Friday in La Quinta, California, in 16:36 with little competition (his little brother was second in 18:xx).

A lot happened on November 21. Lynn Johnson won the Billy Kelly 5K in Mansfield (results). Robert Laplante and Paula Donovan both finished in sixth place (Bob finished third in his age group) at the Norwood Turkey Trot four-miler the same day (results). Brodie Miles, Calvin Ma, Ken Agabian, and Ted Charrette all ran in the Philadelphia Marathon.

The USA Track and Field Association has determined that GBTC is a National Elite Club for the upcoming 2008 Olympiad. The USATF is the national governing body for track and field.

The women raced to fourth place against international competition at the GVH Cross Country Invitational at Genesee Valley Park, Rochester, NY on November 14, and the men finished eighth out of eleven (results).

Mark your calendars, the 2005 road race season is starting to take shape.

Two hundred people attended a lecture by the legendary coach Arthur Lydiard at Regis College on November 10, including twenty-five club members and many past members like Coach Bill Squires (pictures).

Colin McArdle finished second at the National Masters Cross-Country Championship in the 60+ age group on November 7. The same day, the GBTC women finished third and the men fifth at the New England Cross Country Championships. The most improved prize goes to Joanna Thomson led the women, with Sloan Siegrist running almost two minutes faster than last year and moving from 44th place to 18th. Kit Wells let the men, hot off his personal best at the Chicago Marathon, and Jay Slowick improved from placing 73 last year to 56 by running a minute faster See the full results and great pictures taken by Bruce Davie and Ryan McDermott.

The club's Road Grand Prix Series has ended, and this year's winners are Marzuki Stevens, Laura Hayden, Bruce Davie, and Bruce Bond. Congratulations!

Josh Seeherman won the Khoury's 4.13 Miler on November 4 by nearly a full minute (results).

Jay Slowick won the Halloween Hustle 5km in Waltham, MA, on October 30 (results).

The new club officers for 2005 are Bruce Davie, President; Ted Charrette, Vice-President; Katie Fobert, Clerk; and Jim O'Brien, Treasurer. These officers were elected at the board meeting on October 26. Thanks to our new leaders, and to all our new board members: Ken Agabian, Cynthia Hastings, Brad Kozel, Josh Seeherman, Francis Shen, and Gary Snyder.

At the Boston Mayor's Cup, the club had twenty-seven runners competing, and the teams finished third in the open race, third in the women's race, and eleventh in the men's race (results). The same day, Bob LaPlante won the Black Cat Classic 5K in Duxbury by over a quarter mile. See the great picture of him after the race on the CoolRunning results page (results).

The club held its annual meeting in Cambridge on October 19, where the coaches' awards were given to Marzuki Stevens and Andie Colon. The club also elected a new board of directors. Please welcome (and thank) Gary Snyder, Ted Charrette, Francis Shen, Jim O'Brien, Josh Seehermann, Brad Kozel, Cynthia Hastings, Katie Fobert, Ken Agabian, and Bruce Davie. At this meeting, the club formally approved the Margaret L. Bradley Award.

Two teams of women finished second and fifth in the Tufts 10K on October 11, lead by Emily Raymond, Yarrow Moench, and Katie Famous. Emily had run a marathon just nine days earlier. Sandy Miller has completed each of the 28 races since 1977. Joanna Thompson finished as the third fastest masters runner, just 36 seconds behind Joan Benoit-Samuelson (results).

The Topsfield Cross-Country Festival was held at the Bradley Palmer State Park on October 10, sponsored by the Greater Boston Track Club and the North Shore Striders. Take a look at the final results and some great pictures.

Marzuki Stevens finished as the fifth American at the Chicago Marathon on October 10, followed by Josh Sohn and Kit Wells, all three running personal records. Marzuki's time of 2:22:38 was the best by a GBTC man since Sebastian Junger's perfect marathon in the 1980s, and is only 38 seconds shy of what is normally the Olympic trials qualifying time (results). The same day Matt Flinders, Ken Ross, Stephen Steinbergher, Ken Agabian, and Melissa Freidel all posted impressive times in the BAA Half Marathon (results).

Joan Bohlke and John Kerrigan were the first woman and second man to finish the Somerville Homeless Coalition Road Race on October 3, leading nine runners from the club, including some of the sprinters (results). The same day, the women and men placed third and fifth at the Ollie Road Race. Kit Wells ran the best race of his life showing that he is in tip top form for the Chicago marathon next week, where he will race with teammates Marzuki and Josh Sohn. Laura Hayden had a wild sprint beating Carolyn Dobbin of Somerville Road Runners by a lean (results).

The women won the Providence Half Marathon on September 26, and the men came in second. The women were led by Laura Hayden, Yarrow Moench, and Katie Famous; and the men by Marzuki Stevens, Josh Sohn, and Kit Wells. The team brought home $2750 in prize money, plus individual cash prizes for Larua Hayden and Colin McArdle, who won the 60+ age group (results).

Emily Raymond won the MIT Harrier Classic at Franklin Park on September 25, leading the women to a first place finish. Women scoring points for the club included new members Johanna Thomas and Sherida Bird. Bob LaPlante and Ted Breen led the men to a third place finish (results).

Ian Nurse won the Team with a Vision 5K on September 18, followed by Ryan Croteau and Francis Shen (results).

Josh Seeherman won the Epilepsy Foundation 5K in Brighton on September 12. Maegan Chaggaris won the Melrose Run for Emarc 5K the same day, her first race back from injury.

Alison Guzman goes out a winner, winning the Fresh Pond race on September 11, just before leaving for Spain. She'll be back...

The men came in fourth at the National 5K Championship race in Providence on September 12. Scoring for the team were Edward Breen, Kit Wells, Robert LaPlante, John Blouin, and Bill Newsham (results).

GBTC's own Joan Bohlke demolished the women's course record at Lake Quannapowitt on September 8. She won in 18:38 (finishing fourth overall and ahead of the next woman by nearly three minutes). The previous course record on this 5k loop was 20:44 (results).

Marzuki Stevens won the hilly Cape Ann 25K on September 6, and Kit Wells finished fifth, followed by a half dozen other club runners (results).

Laura Hayden set a new course record when she won the Acushnet Road Race on September 6, followed by Katie Famous and Julie McGee in third and seventh places. John Blouin, Brad Kozel and Bruce Davie finished third, sixth, and seventh overall. Both teams finished in second place in the team competitions (results).

At the 2004 Athens Olympics, club member Sloan Siegrist represented Guam in the 1500m with a 4:44.53. One night-owl in the club reports that there was plenty of chance to see her on television at the start of her heat and in the opening lap as she hung close to the pack that opened up in about 67 for the first 400. You can also see her in Guam's Pacific Daily News. Sloan even carried the Guam flag in the closing ceremonies. Former club member Geraldine Pillay represented South Africa in the 100m, and ran 11.44 in the first round, just missing the quarterfinals by 0.01 seconds!

At the Bridge of Flowers 10K on August 14, Colin Mcardle won his age group and Ted Breen finished 16th overall (results). At the Chilmark Roadrace the same day, Josh Sohn and Bob Laplante finished fourth and fifth overall, with Bob winning his age group (results).

The 2005 edition of the GBTC Invitational will be held on January 23 at the Gordon Indoor Track Facility at Harvard University. Watch this page for details as the meet approaches.

Josh Sohn won the Vineyard Scoops 5K Tour of Edgartown on August 7.

Kit Wells won the Beverly Yankee Homecoming 5K on August 5, and set a personal best by three seconds (results).

The women won the Yankee Homecoming 10 miler on August 3, and the men finished second. A hot, humid night and a little rain made it 100% humidity. New member Emily Raymond led the women's team. Former GBTC member Julie Solidoro won the women's race, coached by Ron Glennon (results).

Bruce Davie won the five-miler at Fresh Pond on July 31, and Bill Newsham finished fifth at the Chronicle Half Marathon in San Francisco.

Kit Wells has put together some photos taken by Kristen Kozlosky of the Stowe 8-Miler on July 18.

Kits Wells and Katie Fobert won the Lynn Woods race on July 23 (results).

The men's and women's teams both finished in fourth place at the Stowe 8-Miler on July 18. Marzuki Stevens led our team at Stowe finishing in the money in fifth place. Julie McGee ran her finest race yet for the club as our second woman behind Laura Hayden (results, photos).

The men and women finished second and third at the USATF National Club Track & Field Championships on July 2-3 in Indiana, bringing home $2500 in prize money. The competition was so fierce that 27 performances qualified for the Olympic Trials! (results)

The men and women finished second and sixth at the USATF Eastern Regional Championships on June 26. The club had 13 athletes in 21 events, and club athletes performed well (photos, overall results, team results).

The women finished second at the Whirlaway 10K on June 27, the men came in fifth, and the men's masters and seniors teams came in sixth and seventh. The women are tied for first in the USATF New England Grand Prix going into the Stowe 8 Miler on July 18 (results).

At Lynn Woods cross country races on June 23, Fredrica Introne won the 2.75 mile race, and Kit Wells and Katie Famous won the 8 mile races. According to the web site, Katie set a new course record, beating a time from 1993!

The men and women came in first and second at the USATF New England Outdoor Track Championships at MIT on June 20 (results). At that meet, Adrian Shears and Rahiem Greenridge made progress in their quest for Olympic Trials qualification.

The club hosted A Midsummer Lights Relay on June 18, a festival of light running throughout the night around Deer Island in Winthrop. Six teams ran through the night (results).

Yarrow Moench ran a 3:03 marathon at Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota.

Coming off their fourth place finish at the national 5K championship, the women finished second at the New England 5K championship, the Lincoln Park Rhody 5k Road Race on June 13. Laura Hayden, Sloan Siegrist, Lynn Johnson, Kathryn Fobert, Julie McGee, Christy Bonstelle have now broken the tie for first place and sit at the top of USATF Grand Prix for the moment. Colin McArdle won the 60+ division, leading the men's seniors team to fourth, and the men's masters to ninth. Marzuki Stevens led the men to fourth place, finishing second by just four seconds, hot off his splendid 3:58 in the 1500 the night before (results).

At the Boston High Performance on June 12, Catherine Regan set a personal best of 2:11.55 in the 800, and Josh Seeherman and David Cahill both broke 2:00 in the 800 (results).

Our women finished fourth in the country at the the Freihofer's 5K on June 5, serving as the USATF 5K national championship race. The race organizers treated our team of Laura Hayden, Sloan Siegrist, Lynn Johnson, Kathryn Fobert, Cheryl Sullivan, and Julie McGee like royalty, paying for three hotel rooms, two excellent meals, and entry fees. All of our runners ran well (results and photos of club runners and other runners). The same day, Colin McArdle ran a 4:59.56 mile at the Boston High Performance Meet in Dedham, an amazing race by our sixty-year-old hero who will be going for the American record next week that is only a second or two faster! (results) The next day, Brodie Miles and Christy Bonstelle finished 10th and 64th in the Vermont Covered Bridges Half Marathon, or 4th and 2nd in their age groups! (results)

Bryan Doldt won the Johnny Kelley 5 Miler in Hyannis on May 30 with a near lifetime best performance, and Lynn Johnson finished second. See the results. The same day, Tom Whitney finished seventh in his age group at the Nissan Buffalo Marathon in New York.

The GBTC women's open team took second place at the Bedford 12K on May 22, to put them in an exciting three-way tie for first place in the USATF New England Grand Prix with Central Mass Striders and Whirlaway at the end of the first two Grand Prix races. The men's open team finished in sixth place and remains in third overall in the Grad Prix. A star performance came from Katie Fobert who blasted off chasing the family record on the course set by her older sister in 2001. Kit Wells helped the men's team by running through 10K in a personal best in pursuit of Josh Sohn (results).

Lynn Johnson won the Mansfield High School 5K on May 23 in preparation for the National 5 km at Freihofer's in Albany on June 5. She set a new record for the event with a time of 18:07 and finished sixth overall. The prior day, Cynthia Hastings won the Deer Island race, and Christine Kloiber set a PR in the 400 at the MIT Last Chance Qualifier (results and photos).

The GBTC women won the Boston Marathon on April 19, and the men came in fourth.

At the Boston Tune-Up 15k in Upto