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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.

2009

Come join us for the 3rd Annual GBTC Date and Service Auction on Saturday August 1, 2009, at McFadden's Boston from 6-10pm. Be sure to buy your tickets early at the club store as we have limited capacity in the space that we rented and once we have reached it we will not be allowed more.

See the latest edition of the Wingfoot, the club newsletter, by editor Michelle Lang.

See the latest 2009 outdoor performances added to the collection of  performance lists maintained by Josh Seeherman.

The club has awarded the 2009 Margaret Bradley Award to Meghan Lynch who will compete in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 12K on May 19th, 2009. Club members are invited to join us for a reception for Meghan on May 2 at 7pm.

2008

See pictures from the BU Valentine Invitational on Friday, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon by Tom Derderian.

Josh Seeherman has updated the 2008-2009 indoor performance list, the 2008 outdoor performance list, and the club records list.

The club elected a new board of directors at the annual meeting on October 7.  The new board is Ted Breen, Bruce Davie, Sara Donahue, Laura Hayden, Rod Hemingway, Brad Kozel, Ken Ross, Josh Seeherman, and Jenny Thomas. See the slide show from the end of the meeting.

See final results and photos of the men, women, and teams from the Topsfield Cross Country Festival held on October 5 at Bradley Palmer State Park in Topsfield, MA. 

See pictures from the Codfish Bowl cross country race in Franklin Park on September 27, 2008, taken by Bruce Davie (results).

Sara Donahue and her brother won the women's and men's open races at the 26th Annual GMAA Clarence DeMar Road Race 5K on the 4th in Vermont (results).

2007

The October 2007 newsletter, The Wingfoot, is on-line.

The annual Holiday Party was held at the Muddy Charles Pub on the MIT campus in Cambridge on December 16.

Lynn Johnson and Jessica Blake finished first and second in their age groups and first and fourth overall at the Christmas 10K in Newport on December 9 (results).

The women and men finished 16 and 39 at the USATF National Cross Country Championships in Ohio on December 8 (results). See video and photos from the meet. See also cross country results from the USATF New England meet in Amherst, and results and photos from the Bad Boy cross country meet in New York, and photos from the Mayor's Cup cross country meet in Boston in Franklin Park

At the New York Marathon on November 2, Kit Wells, David Bedoya, and Nathaniel Freese led the men's team to a second place finish (results).

California International Marathon, Sarah Donohue ran an Olympic qualifier and set a new woman's marathon record for the club at 2:43:45, and Megha Doshi ran a huge PR!!

Allison McCabe won the 3000 in 9:53 at the Husky Winter Track & Field Carnival on December 1 (results).

In the final results of the 2007 USATF New England Cross Country Grand Prix, the GBTC women and men finished first and second, respectively.  The women for first with SISU, and the men finished second to SISU.

GBTC president Bruce Davie ran his personal best marathon in 2:46 in Philadelphia on November 18, finishing 69th overall. Bruce reports by email that Christy Bonstelle ran a PR by 4 minutes going 3:10.

At its annual meeting in October, the club elected a new board of directors for the 2007-2008 season: Christy Bonstelle, Bruce Davie, Rod Hemingway, Liz Kelly, Brad Kozel, Ken Ross, Josh Seeherman, Gary Snyder, Jenny Thomas.  We extend our thanks to these members, and our gratitude for departing board members Aaron Binkley, Megha Doshi, and Miyun Kim.  See video shown at the meeting.

Congratulations to Audrey Giesler, the 2007 recipient of the Margaret Bradley Award.

See the final results of the Topsfield Cross-Country Festival held on September 30at the beautiful Bradley Palmer State Park in Topsfield, and pictures of the men and women running.

The GBTC men won the USATFNE Grand Prix 10 miler on September 23 --- the Apple Harvest 10 miler --- led by Avi Kramer, Kibrom Temelso, Ryan Aschbrenner, Giannis Papadopoulos, David Bedoya (blog, results).  The GBTC men and women won the Codfish Bowl cross country meet the day before (blog, results).

Ryan Aschbrenner won the Nahant 30K Road Race on September 16 (results), and Mike Panas came in second at the Applefest 5K the day before that (results).

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 Upton on April 10, Bill Newsham, Robert Mirabile, Barbara McManus, and Jessica Blake finished 15, 16, 18, 24 (results and some pictures).

At Fitchburg State on April 10, Chris Ferrara won the Shot Put, Wayne Burwell won the 100m and 200m Stanley Egbor and Gary Labonte finished first and second in the 400m, and Dave Cahill and Bob Bates finished third and fifteenth in the 800m (results).

Joshua Seeherman and David Cahill finished first and third in the 800 at Fitchburg State on April 3, and Sarad Tomlinson third in the 5000 (results). Brian Irwin finished sevenths in the javelin at Duke that same day. Josh Sohn and Lynn Johnson won the Road Race by the Sea 10K in Cohasset on April 4, with Maegan Chaggaris, Cheryl Sullivan, Katie Famous, and Michelle Lang taking places three, six, seven, and eight, and Tom Whitney finishing second in his age group (results). JR Cruz and Manuel Chinchilla finished first and fifth at the City Run in Cambridge the same day (results). At the Doyle's Emerald Necklace five milder, Colin McArdle won the 50+ age group, and Clair McManus won the masters women's race (results). That makes six wins in one weekend!

Christy Bonstelle won the mile and 3000 at the USATF National Masters Indoor Championships at Reggie Lewis in Boston the weekend of March 26-28. Sarah Lawson finished second in the 60, 200, and 400; Deke Conklin third in the pole vault; and Kisha Carman third in the 60; nearly a dozen club members competed (results). Kit Wells won the Border to Border 20 Miler in Salisbury, beating the second place finisher by seven minutes, and Lynn Johnson placed second in the women's race (results). Chris Simpson won the Friends of Concord-Carlisle Cross-Country race in Concord (results). Marzuki Stevens, Maegan Chaggaris, and Katie Famous set personal bests in the 10K at the club's first outdoor track meet of the year, Northeastern University's Snowflake Classic in Waltham (men's and women's results).

The next board of directors meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 29, at Ted Charrette's office at 245 Summer Street in Boston. All members are welcome to attend.

Russ Miller has started the rankings for the club's 2004 Grand Prix road series.

The GBTC men's and women's open teams each placed third in the New Bedford Half Marathon, part of the USATF New England Road Racing Grand Prix Series. The club had 33 runners in the race. Marzuki Stevens and Jessica Blake led our men's and women's teams, but the shining stars of the day were personal best performances from Josh Sohn and Katie Famous. See full results and photos by Jim Rhoades.

GBTC's JR Cruz won the long and hilly Stu's 30K by two minutes on March 7, and Jessica Blake, Maegan Chaggaris, and Lynn Johnson went 1-2-3 in the women's race (results).

Our own Sloan Siegrist competed in the World Indoor Track Championships on March 5 representing Guam.

The GBTC men's and women's open teams won the Hyannis Half Marathon on February 29, and the men's masters team came in third (team results). Josh Sohn finished third over all in the men's open race with Kit Wells and Jeff Doyon in seventh and eighth (full results), and Lynn Johnson and Maegan Chaggaris came in first and fourth in their age groups (group results). In the accompanying 10K race, Robert Laplante and Katie Wasilenko won their age groups, and Tom Derderian and Katie Famous finished second (10K results). At the Amherst 10 Miler known formally as the Jones Town & Country 10 Mile Road Race, Marzuki Stevens and JR Cruz finished third and fourth, with JR first in his age group (results). And at the USATF National Indoor Track meet in Boston, the Distance Medley Relay team of Chris Simpson, Sekou Dilday, Andie Colon, and Jay Slowik finished an amazing fourth place (see full results and photos of the team by Stan Hu and a team report by Chris Simpson).

GBTC retained the championship title at the USATF New England Indoor Championships on February 22, the seventh straight title for the men and fourth straight for the women. Read a report on the club performances by Josh Seeherman, ane the full results.

Chris Simpson has been named the new middle distance coach. Read this and other news in the minutes of the February board of directors meeting.

Kit Wells has scanned in every club newsletter from 1978 through 1995. That means we now have an on-line copy of nearly every newsletter written in the history of the club in our archive.

See reports on the BU Terrier Classic, the Tufts Invitational, and the BU Valentine Invitational by Josh Seeherman. At the BU Terrier Classic on January 30, Amanda LaBelle and Maegan Chaggaris ran personal bests in the 3,000 of 10:39 and 10:50 (results). The same weekend, at the BU Invitational on February 1, Chris Westfield vaulted 15-06.25 in the pole vault, and Joan Bohlke, Catherine Regan, and Sloan Siegrist finished 2:12, 2:15, and 2:19 in the 800.

In temperatures that must have been well below zero, Ian Nurse, Jessica Blake, Maegan Chaggaris, and Michelle Lang ran well at the Boston Prep 16 Mile Race in Derry, New Hampshire, on January 25. Ian finished third overall (second in age group), and Jessica, Maegan, and Michelle finished second, fourth, and thirteenth in their age groups (results).

There were two world-leading performances at the 2004 GBTC Invitational held on January 18. Read the report on club performances by Josh Seeherman.

See the latest issue of the Wingfoot newsletter (pdf, 3.8M).

See the mintues from the last board of directors meeting on Monday, January 12.

Christy Bonstelle and Bruce Davie won the masters 1500 and 3000 meter races at the Dartmouth Relays on January 9 (results).

Over the January 3-4 weekend, fourteen current or former members of the club completed the USATF Coaching Education Level I Program at the University of Rhode Island. This certification is designed to give coaches a basic understanding of coaching methods involved in track and field events, plus an elementary knowledge of sports science as it applies to coaching. Our crew consisted of these individuals: Joan Bohlke, Dave Callum, Tom Derderian, Dennis Floyd, Rod Hemingway, Christine Kloiber, Sandy Miller, Erin Newman, Dan Fitzgerald, Jeff Rockwood, Josh Seeherman, Nasser Sharara, Chris Simpson, and Kit Wells.

2003

Stan Egbor, Francis Shen, and Chris Westfield won sprint, hurdle, and vault events at the Harvard University Invitational Track Meet on December 13 (results).

One one snowy New England weekend, part of the club ran in the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships in North Carolina on December 7, and others ran in the Husky Carnival at Northeastern University on December 6.

Ben Nephew finished second at the Andover Cross Country 6K on November 30 (results).

Katie Famous, Jessica Blake, and Katherine Wasilenko swept the top three places in the Mansfield 5K on November 23 (results), and Sloan Siegrist won the Fresh Pond 2.5 miler.

Ben Nephew set a course record of 3:14 flat at the Nifty Fifty 50K road race in Coventry, Rhode Island, on November 16.

Track workouts are moving indoors. The Tuesday outdoor track practices at the Danehy track are moving to the MIT indoor track starting Wednesday, November 12, at 7:30pm. Track fee is $50 for the winter.

The women finished fourth, the men fifth, and the masters sixth among the New England clubs at the USATF New England Cross Country Championships at Franklin Park on November 9. The women's team scored just one point below Greater Lowell, but they ran cumulatively one minute faster (scores are by place, not time). See the full results.

The board of directors elected the board officers at its last meeting on October 27. They are Doug Burdi, President; Erin Cullinane, Vice President; Jim O'Brien, Treasurer; and Cynthia Hastings, Clerk. The minutes of the meeting are available on the web. The next meeting will be November 20. All club members are welcome to attend.

Michelle Lang and Brodie Miles led our teams to the finish line at the Cape Cod Marathon on October 26 in 3:20 and 2:45. These teams including John Blouin, Jon Chesto, Nasser Sharara, Bruce Bond, Joel Bargmann, Ken Agabian, Renee Knapp, Tom Schuster, and Johanna Lindberg (results). Congratulations to Bruce Bond and Ken Agabian who have, yet again, competed in every USATF New England Grand Prix event. With the completion of this marathon, they have earned their Grand Prix Ironrunners Certificates.

The Boston Mayor's Cup never fails to disappoint, and teams from all over came to compete in what had to be called a national class race in Franklin Park on October 26. The club sent full teams to the race, and a lot of members to cheer. Everyone ran well in these races that were almost devoid of slow runners (results).

The club held its annual meeting October 21 at the Mount Auburn Club in Watertown. The following members were elected to the board for the coming year: Cynthia Hastings, Katie Wasilenko, Jim O'Brien, Doug Burdi, Sarah Lawson, Maria Sun, Josh Seeherman, Gary Snyder, and Erin Cullinane.

Ian Nurse won the Bay State Marathon with a personal best time. JR Cruz finished second in half marathon, and Rebecca Raum finished as the fourth woman (results).

At Franklin Park on October 19, Bruce Davie, Brian Besloeu, and Colin McArdle finished 5th, 9th, and 10th overall; and Katherine Wasilenko, Diana Rancourt, Christy Bonstelle, and Katie Carda finished as the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th women.

The women placed fourth at the Tufts 10K on October 13, with Jessica Blake, Alison Guzman, and Katherine Wasilenko scoring the points for the club. Claire McManus finished as eleventh master, and Sandy Miller continued her streak of finishing every Tufts 10K ever, 27 in all (results).

At the Bradley Palmer Cross-Country Club Challenge on October 12, sponsored by the Greater Boston Track Club and the North Shore Striders, the men's teams finished as GBTC, NSS, CSU, and SSAC, and the women's teams finished as CSU, GBTC, and SSAC (full results).

At the Ocean State Marathon in Providence on October 12, Maegan Chaggaris finished as the third women in 3:15:11 and Nasser Sharara finished as the second master in 2:58:58 and thirteenth over all.

In the Chicago Marathon, Margaret Bradley ran a fabulous race, finishing under three hours in her marathon debut. Jim Pawlicki also put in a great performance, finishing in 2:37, proving that he is back from his broken knee cap; and Jeff Doyon and Bryan Doldt also finished well in 2:42 and 2:52.

The women's open team placed sixth in the Ro-Jack's 8K in Attleboro, Massachusetts, on October 5, and a weakened men's open team relying on two masters placed eighth. Both teams are now fifth in the USATF New England Grand Prix series with only one race, the Cape Cod Marathon, remaining (results).

The "GBTC Middies" won the Somerville Homeless 5K in Somerville on October 4, 2003 (results).

Nasser Sharara finished third master (tenth overall) at the Newport Federal Savings Bank Half Marathon on September 28.

The men and women both won MIT's Harrier Classic Cross Country Invitational at Franklin Park on September 27. Jessica Johnston, Lynn Johnson, Jessica Blake, Joan Bohlke, and Alison Guzman were our top five women (winning with the very low score of 48 and averaging 19:28); and Ben Nephew, John Blouin, Brian Doldt, James Pawlicki, and Bryan Graham were our top five men (winning even with top guns Marzuki Stevens and Jay Slowik retiring from the race due to injury and illness).   (results)

Chris Simpson, Adam Buggia, Chris Coxen, and Joe Grand took the top four places in the 2.5 miles race at Fresh Pond on September 20. This was Joe's last race for the club before leaving for San Diego. Good luck Joe.

Lynn Johnson won the Fall Marathon Tune-up 30K in Lynn on September 20 in hot, humid, and hilly conditions. John Blouin was the second man and Michelle Lang the third woman to finish. Other members with good times included James Pawlicki, Brodie Miles, Joel Bargmann, Tom Whitney, Harold Frost, and Diana Kobland (results).

Brian Beaulieu and Deb Volk won the long race at the Lynn Woods on September 17 (results).

Erin Cullinane was elected as the Women's Long Distance chair at the annual meeting of the New England chapter of the USA Track and Field Association on September 16.

Chris Simpson and Joanie Bohlke won the men's and women's divisions of the Main Street Mile down in Falmouth in 4:35 and 5:24.

The men's team finished third at the USATF National 5K Championship in Providence, Rhode Island, on September 6. The team consisted of Marzuki Stevens, Tim McCusker, Jay Slowik, Bryan Graham, Matt Lyons, Noah Stuart, Colin McArdle, and Bridge Hunter (results).

Matt Lyons finished second in the long cross-country race at Lynn Woods on September 3 (results).

Marzuki Stevens won the Acushnet Road Race on September 1, shattering the course record, and the men's and women's teams finished in first and second places. The men scoring points for the team were Marzuki Stevens, John Blouin, and Bruce Davie, and the scoring women were Jessica Blake, Kristen Brennand, and Katherine Wasilenko (results, pictures).

Maegan Chaggaris took third place at the Nantasket Seaside 4 Mile Road Race in Hull on August 31, finishing in 26:25 (results).

At the Lynn Woods cross-country relay, the men's and women's teams won the 4x2.5 mile relay race. Tim McCusker, Dennis Floyd, Bryan Doldt, and Ben Nephew won, but heard footsteps right behind them the whole way in a tight race, and Bruce Davie, Mike Connelly, Bill Newsham, and AJ placed third. Katie Famous, Sloan Siegrist, Margaret Bradley, and Kristin Brennand made up the winning women's team. The masters team of Ted Charrette, Nassar Sharara, Ken Ross, and Cynthia Hastings took second masters.

The men's and women's teams are now in fourth place in the USATF New England Grand Prix road race series, after finishing fifth in the Bridge of Flowers 10K championship race in tropical heat and humidity on August 9. Kristen Brennard, Lynn Johnson, Jessica Blake, Michelle Lang, and master's runner Claire McManus scored for the women, and Ben Nephew, Bryan Graham, John Blouin, Bill Newsham, and Jay Slowik for the men (results, pictures).

Jim Pawlicki and Tim McCusker led the men and Margaret Bradley and Katie Famous led the women at the Falmouth Road Race on August 10.

Claire McManus won the women's master's division of the Sugar Bowl 5 Miler in Dorchester on July 24. Ken Ross also ran just days after running the Stowe race, and finished twelfth in his division.

The women and the men finished fifth and sixth, respectively, at the Stowe 8 Miler in Vermont on July 20. Melissa Leier and Ben Nephew led the two teams to the finish line. Katie Fobert, Holy Cross graduate now teaching high school physics, represented the club for the first time (results, photos, photos).

The men's and women's teams finished second in the USATF National Club Championship on July 19. Congratulations to the forty members of the club who competed so well at the national level! (photos and a trip report)

James Pawlicki led a team of five runners in the Wellesley 5 Miler on July 18, including masters runner Claire McManus.

GBTC's Sloan Siegrist, representing Guam, won the silver medal in the 1500, the bronze medal in the 5000 meters, and finished fifth in the 800 at the South Pacific Games in Fiji in cold, wind, and rain as a tropical storm swept over the islands. Sloan came of age on Guam, graduated from Stanford, and is now a grad student at Harvard.

At the World Masters Athletics Championships on July 5, Sarah Lawson placed fourth in the 40-44 year age bracket in the 100 meters, and won her heat in 200 meters the next day.

The men's and women's teams won the USATF Eastern Region Outdoor Track and Field Championship on July 6, just a few weeks after winning the USATF New England Championships on June 14. Running in temperatures over 90 degrees, some athletes ran one, two, three, even eight events, and Katie Wasilenko won the 5,000 race. See an enthusiastic report and some good pictures from the event (results).

The men finished fourth and the women finished fifth at the USATF New England Grand Prix 20K in Bedford, New Hampshire, on June 29 (results).

Kristy Gould places first overall in her debut duathlon (2 mile run/17 mile bike/2 mile run) in Marlboro the weekend of June 29. She crossed the line a full minute and twenty seconds ahead of the second place female. She logged the fastest bike split of the day and had the second fastest run splits for both runs.

A Midsummer Lights Relay on June 20, a relay race hosted by GBTC and other local organizations where runners ran around the island carrying light batons, was a success. See the pictures by Stanley Hu and Tiffany Thompson.

GBTC successfully defined its men's and women's titles at the USATF New England Outdoor Track Championship on June 14th at the MIT Steinbrenner Track. The men's performance was highlighted by a thunderous 200 performance by Stanley Egbor which was clocked in 20.70 (wind-aided). Other victories included a double shot-disc performance by Chris Ferrara and an excellent 6-8 clearance by Sean Earle in the high jump. Over on the women's side, the team was paced by Kourtney Trainor, who scored over 20 points by herself, and Jana Bromell, who set a new club record in the 400 (56.2) and anchored a record 4x400, assisted by Catherine Regan, Ulrike Gradhand, and the aforementioned Ms. Trainor (results, pictures).

At yet another rainy Boston High Performance meet, the GBTC folks competed quite well. The club swept the 400 as Catherine Regan won the ladies and Stan Egbor won the men's. In addition, Jay Slowik won the open 3000m with a sub 9:00 clocking, and Rich Voliva continued to improve by winning the open mile. In the elite events, Marzuki Stevens ran the fastest 1500 time for the club this year, and the crowd was treated to an appearance by the high school mile record holder, Alan Webb.

GBTC women won second place at the USATF 5K National Championships in Albany on May 31, led by Melissa Leier, Margaret Bradley, Lynn Johnson, Katie Famous, and Alison Guzman. Melissa ran a terrific race, running much of that race with Olympic Gold Medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson. Running phenom Marla Runyan was the individual winner, and Westchester won the team title (results). The next day, Brodie Miles finished fourth in his age group in the Covered Bridges Half Marathon in Vermont, and Ben Nephew finished second in his age group in the Mt. Kearsarge Hill Run.

The GBTC men and women fought bravely in cold, rainy, and all around unpleasant weather at the second meet in the Boston High Performance Series on May 24. The 10,000 produced probably the most noteworthy performances as both Melissa Leier and Margaret Bradley PR'd enroute to stellar 37 minute times, while old friend Julie Spolidoro gunned a 35 minute blitz in the pouring rain trying in vain to reach the USATF qualifier. In addition, Catherine Regan, running the longer 800 for the first time in many years, won her heat. Over on the men's side, there were fine performances from Chris Simpson in the 800 and Marzuki Stevens in the 3,000.

Bill Newsham rose to third on the year's club marathon list with his 2:48:57 at the Vermont City marathon. Only Jeff Doyon and Kit Wells have run faster this year. Ben Nephew finished sixth in the Mount Wachusett Road Race, even managing to beat the mountain running legend, Dave Dunham, by five seconds in this up-hill race.

Melissa Leier won the open 3,000 in 10:19 at the first Boston High Performance Series meet on May 17, and Marzuki Stevens ran about 8:32 in the elite 3,000, a club best for this year.

A team of women running for the club have been invited to the National Women's 5K Championship. Lynn Johnson, Margaret Bradley, Alison Guzman, Katie Famous, Katie Wasilenko, Melissa Leier, and Kristen Brennand will race for the prize money at the Freihofer's Run for Women in Albany at the end of May.

Chris Simpson and Joan Bohlke finished second and second in their age groups (fourth and thirteenth overall) at the M.O.M. 5K in Somerville on May 11 (results).

Stanley Egbor ran the first sub-twenty-one-second 200 in club history, a 20.96, at the Albany Spring Classic on May 10. That's very, very fast. He also won the 100 in 10.55. Andie Colon, Sekou Dilday, Kobie Fuller, and Ed Jones also ran in the meet (results).

This was quite a weekend (May 3-4)! Lynn Johnson finished eighth in the Pittsburgh Marathon (results). Finbar Kirwan won the Evan's Run 10K in Norwell (results). Kristen Brennard, Amanda Labelle, Sarah Zanardi led the women's team to second place at the Breakheart Classic in Wakefield (results). Ben Nephew and Brodie Miles took second and sixth places at the Merrimack River Trail 10 Mile Run. (results). Bill Newsham finished fourth in the Trollheim 5K in Essex, Vermont. Jon Chesto, recovering from a back injury, still managed to finish fifth in the Big Lake Half Marathon in Alton Bay, New Hampshire. Brad Stayton finished as the second master at the John L. O'Brien Memorial Road Race in Woburn, assisted by a handful of runners ahead of him who took a wrong turn, but that's part of the game (results). And Tom Whitney took third in the 50+ age group in the Officer Savage 5K in Wellesley.

At the famous Penn Relays on April 26, the 4x400 "A" Team, consisting of Stan Egbor, Andie Colon, Sekou Dilday, and Kobie Fuller, won the club heat while clocking a stellar 3:16.48 and setting a new club record. They earned the famed gold Penn Relays watches for their tremendous performances. Not to be outshown, the 4x100 "A" squad of Hassan Wajd, Kobie Fuller, Jeff Soderquist, and Speedy Stan Egbor won their heat in 41.96 and earned medals for fourth place. The club was also the only team to field A and B squads, a testament to the increasing depth in the sprints.

On the April 19th weekend, Shaina Damm, while competing at the Sam Howell Invitational Heptathlon at Princeton, broke 5 different club records out of the 7 events scored. Her record breaking marks were 14.1 in the hurdles, 19-5 in the long jump, 41-11 in the shotput, 135-5 in the javelin, and 25.1 in the 200 meters.

At the Boston Marathon on April 20, the men's open team finished in fifth place. There were 23 club members in the race, with Jeff Doyon leading the men in 2:44:17 and Meg Gleason leading the women in 3:14.22 (official times, not chip times). Stan Hu has put together photos of the GBTC Boston Marathon team using pictures from track meets and road races leading up to the marathon taken by Stan Hu, Bridge Hunter, and others; and Erin Cullinane put together an album of the marathon itself.

The track squad was at it again down at Northeastern's Solomon Invitational. Stanley Egbor smoked the field in the 100 and 200, running a 21.4 in the latter. Sekou Dilday ran a 48.9 in the 400, not only winning but running the first sub-49 open race in about six years for the club. The relay also broke 3:20 for the first time since 2001 with Egbor, Matt Orosz, and Andie Colon assisting Sekou. Over on the women's side the distance team swarmed all over the 10000, with Melissa Leier winning in 37:39. Catherine Regan ran a 59 for her outdoor debut, making her the first woman ever on the club to register two sub-60 performances in one year.

At the Doyle's 5 miler in Roxbury on April 13, Colin McArdle, Ben Nephew, JR Cruz, and Noah Stuart placed third, seventh, eighth, and sixteenth in their age groups (results).

At the Bridgewater State Invitational on April 12, Chris Ferrara won the shotput, Bill Newsham won the 10,000, and Andie Colon and Matt Orosz placed in the 400. Newcomer Jon Manosh took fourth in the 100, and Sekou Dilday ran a stellar 48.6 split in the 4x400, the first 48 split since Sekou himself ran one for club back in the indoor season of 2001 (results).

Tracey Timmins, Meg Gleason, and Oliver Board finished first, second, and fourth in their age groups at the City Run in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 6 (results). That same day, there was a club sweep at at Cohasset By-the-Sea, with Margaret Bradley winning her second race in a row, and Kit Wells, Bryan Doldt, Matt Nolan, and Stan Hu finishing first, second, fourth, and ninth (results). Further south, at the Rhode Island College Invitational, Dave Cahill won his heat of the 800 in 2:04, Sarah Lawson won her heat of the 100,placing fourth overall, and placing fifth in the 200. Josh Seeherman placed sixth in the 400, and Andie Colon, Josh Seeherman, Blair Schaffer, and Dave Cahill finished second in the 4x400.

Stan Hu has some nice photographs of celebrations after some recent races.

The club is moving outdoors at the start of April, with workouts beginning March 31 at Harvard and April 8 at Danehy Park.

The GBTC masters made their mark at the USATF Masters Indoor National Championships held at the Reggie Lewis Track on March 28-30. The weekend was highlighted by Deke Conklin's tremendous 4.23 (13-6) leap in the 65-69 long jump which earned him the championship by quite a distance. Measure out 13 and little bit in your kitchen then imagine propelling yourself that far at age 68. He also tossed himself over 9 feet in air to take 2nd in the pole vault. Richard "The Doc" Sobel competed in the high jump, leaping nearly 5 feet -- no too shabby considering his entire competitive career was done with the dive straddle; he is just now learning the flop. And of course, Colin McArdle strutted his stuff in the Mile and the 3000, with a sterling 10 minute even run in the 3K. Bob Cedrone, who just two weeks ago PR'd by, as he put it, throwing his age, continued his consistency over 13 meters. Lastly, Sarah Lawson, fresh off of her lovely article in the Globe ("the fastest soccer mom in the state") placed very highly in the 60 and the 200, both of which had trials and finals (results, highlights).

In two big wins for GBTC, Stanley Egbor won the 100 meters and Marzuki Stevens won the 10,000 meters at the Husky Spring Open on March 29 in Dedham (results, photos). The same day, Alison Guzman finished fifth in the 5,000 meters (results).

Kit Wells, Jeff Doyon, Brian Doldt, and Jason Burke finished in the top five and led a total of eleven club runners to domination of the Eastern States 20 Miler from Kittery, Maine, to Salisbury, Massachusetts, on March 30. Rain and consequent lack of volunteers at the finish led to many runners being missed in the offical results (results). Rich Voliva won the associated 10 Miler, leading a total of four club members around the course (results).

The Boston Globe had a nice article about Sarah Lawson, her national title in the 100-meter dash at last summer's USA Masters Track & Field Championships, and her preparation for the 60- and 200-meter dash at the coming USATF National Masters Indoor Championships.

Kit Wells and Ken Dinovo led the club finishing in places 18 and 24 in the New Bedford Half Marathon on March 16, and Lynn Johnson led the women in this New England classic! (results)

Shaina Damm finished sixth in the nation in the pentathlon at the USA National Indoor Combined Events Championships on March 9, making her one of the best multi-event athletes in the country. She also broke three club records during the competition: the shot put, the long jump, the 60 meter hurdles. Just when you think indoor season is over, Shaina's performance turns up the temperature and keeps the excitement boiling (results, pictures).

The club had 36 members run in the Law Enforcement Half Marathon on March 9, the first race in the USATF New England Grand Prix road race series. The women's and men's open teams finished third and sixth, respectively (results).

At the USATF Nationals on March 2-3, our women's distance medley relay team of Keely Subin, Catherine Regan, Ulrike Gradhand, and Joan Bohlke set a new club record with 12:09.35, and finished fourth in the event! Our men's team of Chris Simpson, Dave Cahill, Dana Bellows, and Marzuki Stevens ran a 10:14.22 against some stiff competition (results, photos).

The men's and women's teams won the USATF New England track championship on February 23, making six back-to-back championships for the men and three for the women (results, pictures). Ulrike Gradhand set a club record of 17'00" in the long jump, and Keely Subin, Ulrike Gradhand, Cheryl Makarewizc, and Joanie Bohlke set a club record of 4:03.06 in the 4x400. Next week, the men's and women's distance medley relay teams have been accepted to run in the USATF Nationals at Reggie Lewis.

At the Hyannis Half Marathon, Jessica Blake won the women's race with a 1:28, followed by Allison Curran with a fine 1:40. Jessica was even quoted in an article about the race in the Cape Cod Times. The men's team won the team prize, packing 7 of the top 14 runners. Kit Wells led the club with a 1:15 in slow, wet conditions, followed by Bryan Doldt, Jack Peltz, Matt Nolan, Brodie Miles, Matt Flinders, and Stanley Hu (results).

Two women set three new club records at the Valentine Invitational on February 14-15. Catherine Regan set records in the 200 and 400 with 25.88 and 57.60 (fourth place), and Joan Bohlke set a record in the 800 with 2:10.74 (fourth place). In addition, Katie Famous ran a personal record of 18:20.57 in the 5,000 (results).

The men's Distance Medley Relay team of Chris Simpson, Dave Cahill, Dana Bellows, and Marzuki Stevens qualified for the Nationals at Reggie Lewis on March 1 by running a thrilling and tight race at the FasTrack Invitational on February 15 (results).

Jon Chesto finished 13th on Martha's Vinyard with 1:54:38 in what was billed as a 20 miler but listed in results as 18 (results).

Colin McArdle, running in the masters division, zoomed to the top of this year's performance list in the 1500 with a 4:45.56 at the Dartmouth Relays in Hanover, New Hampshire, on January 10.

Fin Kirwan and Ben Nephew finished fourth and fifth in the Stew Chase 15K in Lynn, Massachusetts, on February 2, leading about a dozen runners from the club in that race (results).

Stan Hu, Michael Urquiola, Oliver Board, and Meg Gleason all finished in the top quarter at the Boston Prep 16 miler in Derry, New Hampshire, on January 26, and finished sixth, seventh, twenty-second, and fourth in their age groups, respectively (results).

At the GBTC Invitational on January 19, sponsored by Saucony, Stanley Egbor broke his own 60 and 200 club records and personal bests, rocketing a 6.73 on the fast Harvard straightaway and a smoking 21.24 on the oval. The women's 4x400 broke the old record from 1988 with stellar legs from everyone for 4:05.32. Joan Bohlke provided a nice anchor leg to bring home a great performance by the home team. For the first time in 5 years or so, we had a women's high jumper in the meet, Erin Newman from Providence College. On the men's side, Michael Bess threw his first meet with the international weight shot. (results, pictures).

2002

At the Husky Invitational at the Reggie Lewis Track on December 7, Stanley Egbor won the 55 and 200 meters. His 6.30 for the 55 is the best early season performance this club has ever seen, and his astounding 21.60 for the 200 breaks his own club record by a full 0.14 seconds. As Coach Dave Callum says, "This performance highlights what looks to be a great season ahead for Stanley and GBTC." In addition, Blair Schaefer became a hero when, after arriving in civilian clothes to watch, he learned that Mark Lefebvre could not run his leg because the meet schedule lagged and he had to high jump. (photos)

The club's holiday party was held at the Mount Auburn Club Cafe on December 5. The club had a good time, with a highlight being the lottery for Boston Marathon numbers.

On December 3, people training at MIT moved to the indoor track for their Tuesday night workouts. Warm-ups now begin outdoors at 7:00PM and the workouts begin indoors at 7:30PM. The track fee is $50. Coach Dave Callum has made indoor arrangements for people training at other venues including Reggie Lewis and Harvard.

On November 11th GBTC was at full force competing in the annual USATF New England XC championships against the other clubs in the region. The club fielded teams in the men's, women's, and men's masters events. The women had an excellent showing placing 4th, while the open men took 5th and the masters team took 7th. The women had an exceptional pack strategy consisting of Melissa Leier, Kristen Brennand, Jessica Blake, Lynn Johnson, and Katie Wasilenko; they all finished within a minute of each other. Dennis Floyd led the men's group, who defeated Greater Lowell by a single point. The master's group was led by fearless Colin McArdle, and would not be complete without a performance by coach Tom Derderian.

At the New England Cross-Country Championships on November 10, the women placed 4th (led by Melissa Leier, Kristen Brennand, Jess Blake, Lynn Johnson, and K atie Wasilenko), and the men placed 6th (led by Dennis Floyd, Jason Dunklee, Ben Nephew, Neil Wechsler, and Kit Wells).

Eleven club members ran at the USATF-NE/Boston Parks develomental cross country meet at Franklin Park on October 20. Jason Dunklee, Neil Wechsler, and Kit Wells led the men with Jason finishing third. Lynn Johnson, Jessica Blake, and Kristen Brennend led the women finishing third, fourth, and seventh (results).

At its annual meeting on October 15, the club elected a new board of directors consisting of Doug Burdi, Dave Cahill, Erin Cullinane, Marc Lefebvre, Ben Nephew, Jim O'Brien, Chris Simpson, Gary Snyder, and Kit Wells.

At the Bradley Palmer Cross-Country Club Challenge, the men and women finished first and second, respectively. In the women's race, GBTC's Melissa Leier took an early lead only to be caught in the last half mile by CSU's Sue LaChance. GBTC teammate Joan Bolhke took a great fall six minutes into the race but got up all bloody and muddy to finish. Maria Sun finished third for the team. In the men's race, Jason Dunklee led our men's team with Bryan Doldt and Neil Wechsler following. See the final results and some pictures from Oleg Shpyrko.

At the Chicago Marathon on October 13, former club members Jennifer Rappaport and Bridget Sullivan finished in 2:47 and 3:04.

The GBTC women won a tri-meet with MIT and Springfield College at Franklin Park on October 5. Marisa Clapp of Springfield College was the individual winner, and Melissa Leier and Kristen Brennand of GBTC finished second and third. The club was invited to participate by the MIT women's coach, Paul Slovinski, and it was a good chance for the team to run hard over the Mayor's Cup course that will be run on October 27 (meet results).

The men's and women's open teams finished in fifth and sixth places at the Ro-Jacks 5 Mile Road Race in Attleboro, Massachusets on September 29 (race results and current club grand prix standings).

Allison Curran won the Suffolk University 5K on September 22 (results). The day before, up at the Lake Winnipesaukee Relay, the club teams of "Team Sprinters, Richters, and Flinders," "Dregs & Dross," and "Dieticians Go The Distance" finished in 31st, 80th, and 113th place (results, photos).

GBTC now has four members on the board of directors of the New England chapter of the USATF. At the annual meeting on September 16, Gary Snyder was elected President, Jim O'Brien as Treasurer, Terry O'Neill as Track and Field Chairman, and Chris Simpson as an athlete's representative.

The CVS/pharmacy Downtown 5K in Providence was the USATF 5K national championship for men this year, and club members ran in the race on Saturday, September 14, but not enough for a team (results). Elsewhere that day, sixteen club members and their friends came out to help at the First Annual Race to Stop Global Warming in Boston. Jim Pawlicki and Jenn Regan were singled out by the race committee for their contributions to the race.

Blair Schaefer, a sophomore at Boston College running for the club, won the 19-and-under division at the Mill City 5K in Lowell on September 8. John Blouin and Bruce Bond (and Bruce Bond) led the men's open, senior, and masters teams to fifth, fifth, and eleventh place finishes (results).

Our own Meg Mitchell Moore wrote the cover article on running clubs for the August issue of Running Times magazine.

At the Stowe 8 Miler in Vermont, Ben Nephew and Jessica Kinney led the men's and women's teams to fifth and ninth place finishes in the club results.

At Bay State Games finals on July 13, Stanley Egbor blew past Johann Jack's old 200 club record and won in a smooth 21.12, also winning the 100 in 10.75. Sara Kinnamon broke her own record in the triple jump, and Michelle Carrancho won the hurdles. Princess Imoukhuede dominated the throws, setting two new club records too. Mark Lefebrve once again proved his consistency in the high jump by winning with a 6'4"/1.93m clearance, and Dave Cahill won the 400 (results and photos and more photos).

At the USATF Maine meet, Kevin Russell won the 100 and the 200, while Josh Seeherman ran wire to wire in the 400, running a season PR of 50.79. However, the performance of the meet was by masters athlete Steve Kwait, who ran the fastest 400 (54.6) he's run in 15 years (wow).

The men's and women's teams places first and second at the USATF East Regional Track and Field Championships in Maine on July 7 (results).

John Blouin and Lisa May Hines led the men's and women's at the hilly, hot, 20K in Bedford, New Hampshire, on June 22.

The men and women of GBTC won the USATF New England Outdoor Track Championship held at MIT on June 15, making three back-to-back championships for the men and two for the women. Top scorers were Stanley Egbor, Jeff Soderquist, and Brian Irwin for the men, and Michelle Carrancho, Sara Kinnamon, and Sarah Lawson for the women. Sara Kinnamon set a club record for the triple jump, as you can see on the updated club performance list. Stan Hu and Dave Cahill took some great photos (photos, photos, results).

A few track members traveled to the annual Finnish 'Reipas' Track Meet in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The 1400 meter sprint medley, consisting of Dave Cahill, Blair Schaefer, Josh Seeherman, and Eric Green set a new meet record of 3:22. Mike Donovan won the individual 400, Green and Seeherman went 2-3 in the 800, and Schaefer placed 3rd in the 1500. Bob Cedrone also threw the hammer and the outdoor weight. The meet, run on a 350-meter cinder track, was certainly of the old school. (photos)

Bruce Bond won the master's division of the Great Lincoln Steeplechase (a trail race) in Lincoln on June 9 (results), and Claire McManus won the master's division of the Squirrel Run in Quincy on June 8 (results).

GBTC masters runner Colin McArdle ran a 4:53.12 mile at the Boston High Performance Series meet on June 8, which would make him the fastest in the US in the 55-60 bracket for the mile according to masterstrack.com. A lifetime personal record also went to Margaret Nervegna in the 3000 (11:02). GBTC was out in full force in the 400m as 8 out of the 15 finishers were club members, with top performances from Dave Cahill (50.3) and Trevor Bayliss (50.4). Dennis Floyd (4:35) and Eric Green (4:36) went 1-2 in their heat of the Mile. The meet was highlighted by former NCAA champion Marie McMahon Davenport, running for New Balance, who won the 1500 in a fast 4:19. The club competes next week at the scored USATF New England Meet where both the men and the women look to repeat as the top all-comers club in New England.

At an all-comers relay meet in Amherst, New Hampshire, on June 1, the club took first place in the Sprint Medley (Mark Reynolds, Mark Lefebrve, Josh Seeherman, Joe Grand), the 4x400 (Mark Lefebrve, Josh Seeherman, Joe Grand, Steve Kwait), the high jump (Mark Lefebrve), long jump (Lorenzo Taylor), the triple jump (Lorenzo Taylor), the 100 (Lorenzo Taylor), and the 3000 (Joe Grand).

There have been some huge performances from GBTC high school athletes recently, including Jake Radzevich's New Hampshire state pole vault record and Kourtney Trainor's 300m low-hurdles win at the Massachusetts state championship with the second fastest time ever at the meet, just 0.17 seconds away from the record set back in 1999.

The Deer Island Race is a new series of free Saturday morning races around Deer Island, complementing the well-known Saturday morning races at held Fresh Pond. The series is organized by Coach Tom Derderian with the help of local running organizations including the Greater Boston Track Club. Roy Kratman won the first Deer Island Race on May 25, setting the course record for this 2.674 mile race.

Coach Tom Derderian has declared that the athletes of the May 13 weekend are Helena Kimball and Neil Weschler. Kimball won the Fresh Pond 2.5 miler followed a few placed back by road racer Meg Moore. Weschler placed second in the men's race. Bill Newsham ran two five-mile races on Saturday coming off an 80 mile week, and was considered for the award, but was deemed too crazy. The athletes of the May 6 weekend were Ben Nephew for placeing second in the Seven Sisters 12 mile trail race and Shannon Markley for leading the GBTC women to prize money in the Breakheart 6 km race.

According the IAAF website, GBTC's very own Geraldine Pillay, back in her home country of South Africa, is listed as one of the country's 4x100m representatives for the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in July. Johann Jack will soon be added to the IAAF list for 2002 in the 100m for his very successful impressive performance this past Friday, May 3, at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN at the "Meet of the UnSaintly". Johann left the competition in his dust, literally, running alone for the win in 10.39, for his second-best lifetime 100m. His closest competition was 10.96, a huge margin the short sprints.

Some of our high school athletes ran very well at the start of May. The Hingham Notre Dame High School duo of Kourtney Trainor and Siobhan Hart took charge at the semi-prestigious Weston Invitational. Hart placed fifth in the 200 (27.4) and Trainor destroyed the field by winning the shotput (37'4") and the 300 hurdles (45.4), both of which were meet records. Notre Dame won the 4x100 and 4x400, both meet records as well.

The May issue of the club newsletter the Wingfoot is now available.

Our women won the Breakheart 6K Classic Road Race on May 4, led by Shannon Markley, Allison Curran, and Jennifer Ceolinski; and our men took third, led by Dennis Floyd, Jim Pawlicki, and Noah Stuart.

At the famous Penn Relays in Philadelphia, the men won their 4x400 heat, finished third in the 4x100, and the women finished fourth in the 4x100. Be sure to read an enthusiastic trip report by Coach Dave Callum and see some pictures he took.

The women's team placed 6th and the men's team placed 7th at the James Joyce 10K Ramble on April 28. Read the story of the race by Coach Tom Derderian.

On the same day, April 28, the track athletes ran the Northeastern Solomon Invitational, and you can read the report by Josh Seeherman.

Claire McManus won masters division of the Lexington 5 Miler on April 15, and Ben Nephew finished second in the open division. That same day, many in the club ran the Boston Marathon, where the men's open finished 13th, the women's open 24th, the master's men 32nd, and the master's women 26th.

At the Bridgewater State College Classic, Jeff Soderquist won both his events, the 100 (11.36) and the long jump (22-7) while Mark Reynolds was top 10 in both the 100 and the 200 (23.42). Mark Lefebrve was 5th in the hurdles, and masters super stealth "who is that guy" Bob Cedrone tossed the hammer 156 feet for 3rd. On the ladies side, Michelle Carrancho won the 110 hurdles and triple jumped over 30 feet, and Amber LaPiana sped to a 30 second 200. Also, the Maine group, Art Henson and Kevin Russell, competed at Bates last weekend and won the long jump and 100 in 22-7 and 11.05 respectively. Art also took the high jump in 2 meters = 6-7.

Bridge Hunter, Brent Popadich, and Jennifer Ceolinski finished 1st, 2nd, and 2nd in their divisions in the Better Homes 5K in Wayland, Massachusetts on April 7 (results).

At the Fresh Pond races, Neil Weschler and Helena Kimball won the 2.5 mile races on April 6. On March 30, Jen Ceolinski won the 5 mile race, and Joan Bohlke ran third in the 2.5 mile. That same day, Neil Weschler and Chris Simpson took second and third in the short race, and Jerad Crave, Kit Wells, and Jason Grillo took second, third, and fifth in the long race.

At the National Indoor Championships on March 2 in New York, our men and women finished fifth in the country in the Distance Medley Relay, cheered on by twenty club members who made the trip. For the women: Michelle Lang, Cheryl Makarewicz, Cheryl Lyons, and Joan Bohlke. For the men: Christopher Simpson, Mark Reynolds, Dave Cahill, and Tim McCusker. Well done. Joe Grand took some photos of the event. Chris Simpson wrote his story of the event (results).

At the Hyannis Half Marathon, Finbarr Kirwan, Kit Wells, and Jerad Crave finished fifth, seventh, and eighth to led a team of fourteen club runners in a great showing (results).

The men's and women's teams won the USATF New England indoor track championships held at the Harvard track on February 17. The men won with a score of 68 to 28 over Athletics East and the Boston Athletic Association, and the women won with a score of 43 to 29 over Boston International and AirTime Athletics (results). This is the fifth straight win for the men and the second for the women. Marc Lefebvre won the high jump, Jeff Soderquist won the long jump, Stanley Egbor won the 200 and finished 2nd in the 60, Dave Cahill finished 2nd in the 400, Joe Welch finished 2nd in the weight throw, the men finished 2nd in the 4x400, and high-school pole vaulter Mark Malatesta finished 2nd; and Lynn Johnson finished 3rd in the 5,000, the women finished 2nd in the 4x400, and Michelle Carrancho single-handedly scored almost 1/4 of the women's points. Christine Kloiber took some great pictures of the meet. The board of directors chose Michell Carrancho and Stanley Egbor as the Most Valuable Players for their performances at this meet.

At the Valentine Invitational at Boston University on February 9, Jeff Soderquist won the long jump, Stanley Egbor broke the 200 club record, Dennis Floyd ran an 800 personal record, the men's Distance Medley Relay team missed automatic qualification for the Nationals by one measly second, and Joan Bohlke set a club record in 800 and helped the women set a club record in the DMR.

Josh Seeherman has put together a list of top ten performances in sprints, hurdles, throws, and jumps.

Andy Palmer, the GBTC men's coach for a while in the early 80's, passed away on February 2. CoolRunning has a nice article about him written by Jerry Crockett.

John Blouin finished second at the Great Stew Chase in Lynn, and Lynn Johnson led the women's team. Three guys in the top ten, eight in the top twenty, and four women in the top twenty. What a great start to the road running season (results).

Club members performed about 30 times in the Terrier Classic at Boston University on January 25 and 26. Two club records fell and the men's Distance Medley Relay team missed qualifying for Nationals by three seconds. Marguerite DoRosario started the meet with a record run in the 1,000 meters, Joan Bohlke followed quickly with a record in the 800 meters, Stanley Egbor set a record in the 200, and Michelle Carrancho may have set a record in the 55 hurdles. In addition, Tim McCusker ran a season best in the 3,000 meters (results, photos).

See the final results for the 2002 running of the GBTC Invitational held at the Gordon Indoor Track at Harvard University on January 20.

Kit Wells and Matt Nolan qualified for the Boston Marathon by running 2:52:26 and 2:53:45, respectively, in the Houston Marathon on January 20.

At the New England Masters Championships at Brown University on January 13, Sarah Lawson, 35-39, in the 55m ran 8.08 topped all age groups for first place overall in the dash! Sarah didn't stop there as she cruised to a 28.67 in the 200m, again first overall, almost three full seconds faster than the next best participant. Sarah also ran a very good first place flat track 400m in 1:04.85. Bill Newsham, 35-39, strided to a 4:42.99 mile for second overall and first in his age group. In the 800m, Manuel Chinchilla raced to a first place overall with a 2:10.29. Rick Pierce also ran, coming off early season injuries. Bob Cedrone, 45-49, spun the 35lb weight further than anyone else, heaving the heavy 14.07 meters for first place overall and of course first in his age group. Bob glided over to the Shot Put for a couple throws, heaving the ball 9.89 meters for second in his age group (results).

The club put in a number good performances at the Dartmouth Relays on January 11-13, including top-notch performances by high school athletes affiliated with the club.

The January issue of the club newsletter is now available as a pdf document.

2001

GBTC members Tom and Lisa Hines won the couples division in the Somerville 5K, running with a half dozen club members, on New Year's Eve (results). The next morning, Greg MacGowan and Ken Agabian ran in the Hangover Classic 5K and 10K, respectively, in Salisbury with Greg coming in sixth (results).

Helena Kimball ran a 5:03 mile at the Millennium Mile in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on December 30 for second place in her division (results)

Jerad Crave ran 2:38:32 for 27th place in the California International Marathon on December 8, making him the fastest marathon man in the club this year (results). On the same day, Marc Lefebvre won the high jump at the Harvard Invitational track meet.

Jennifer Marshal broke Melissa Sullivan's club records for the 200 and 400 at the Husky Indoor Carnival at the Reggie Lewis Track on December 1. This was just one of many great team performances (results). That same day a team of six men finished thirteenth at the USATF Fall National Cross-Country Championships in Mobile, Alabama, the second highest placing in the history of Greater Boston's racing a club nationals. Read a race report by Ben Nephew (results).

There were many Thanksgiving Day victories on November 22. Jim Pawlicki finished third at the Winner's Circle 5K in Newburyport. Greg Putnam and Stephen Putnam finished second and fourth at the Dreamcatcher Classic 5 Miler in Weymouth. Lisa Hines and Tom Wolkow finished fifth and fifteenth in their divisions at the Feaster Five in Andover. Dick Nickerson, Garrett Tingle, Dara Zall, and Kara Narath, finished second, third, fifteenth, and sixteenth in their divisions in Somerville; Jessica Blake finished fifth in hers in Barrington with Lynn Johnson; Matt Nolan finished fifth in his in Newport; and Emily Hill finished twenty-eighth in hers in Manchester. Whew.

Bryan Doldt and Lee Cox qualified for Boston with 40th and 45th place finishes at the Philadelphia Marathon on November 18, and Mylene Cox finished 17th among the women in the accompanying 8K.

As of November 13, athletes training with Coaches Tom Derderian and Ron Glennon will move indoors. Practice will start at 7:30 pm every Tuesday evening at the MIT indoor track on Vassar Street in Cambridge, with warm up starting at 7:00 pm. As of December 4, athletes training with Coach Dave Callum will also move indoors. Practice will be 8:00-9:30 pm every Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the Boston University Armory just off Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.

Our men's team placed fourth at the USATF New England Cross Country Championships in Franklin Park on November 11, our women's team placed seventh, our women's masters team placed third, and our men's masters team placed eighth (results).

Congratulations to Ken Agabian, our 2001 USATF New England Ironrunner, who finished in all of the Grand Prix road races this year.

Jessica Kinney took second at the Falmouth in the Fall road race on November 4 (results). That same day, Chris Simpson and Brian Moore finished 2nd and 17th out of 733 at the Boston Freedom Run 5K (results), and Greg MacGowan and Debra Volk both placed 7th in their divisions at the Country Club Classic cross country race (results).

In a great New England cross-country race at Franklin Park on October 28, our men's finished 11th out of 19 teams in the most competitive Mayor's Cup ever, and our women's finished 9th out of 12 teams. This was no fitness run: some 250 of the 318 men ran faster than 6 minutes a mile, only only 4 of the 146 women ran slower than 8 minutes a mile! There were many excellent performances by club members (results, photos).

Congratulations to Nasser Sharara, Ken Agabian, Jeff O'Neill for finishing the Cape Cod Marathon on October 28. These men were the only club runners in the marathon, so they all had to finish or the team would not score, and they all ran according to their fitness and predictions (results). Amazingly, just days before, Nasser Sharara finished fourth in his age group at the BayState Marathon on October 21 (results).

See final results and photos from the Noble & Greenough Cross-Country Run hosted by the Greater Boston Track Club at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Sunday, October 21.

At the annual meeting on October 16, Coach Tom Derderian awarded his coach's awards to Kit Wells and Helena Kimball for organizing and leading club open men's and women's teams to fourth and third places. Track and field Coach Dave Callum awarded his coach's awards to goal-oriented team players Christine Kloiber and Mark Reynolds for their exceptional hard work and consistent presence.

See final results and pictures from the Bradley Palmer Cross-Country Club Challenge hosted by the Greater Boston Track Club and North Shore Striders at the Bradley Palmer State Park in Topsfield, Massachusetts, on October 14. The pictures are by Roger Perham.

Claire McManus, a masters runner, led the club at the Tufts 10K on October 8. Also running were Dung Nguyen, Dara Zall, Kara Narath, Kerry O'Donovan, Dianne Parisi, Rachel Shanor, Susan Richards, Joyce Dendy, and Sandy Miller. Sandy was one of a handful of runners recognized by the race as having run in all twenty-five Tufts 10K races (results).

At the Ro-Jack's 5 Mile race in Attleboro on September 30, we saw terrific races from new men's team leader Tim McCusker (late of Colgate), Bryan Doldt, and Lee Cox who scored for the team for the first time. Jerad Crave ran for the club after recently transferring from our brother RLX club in San Francisco. New women's team leader Mylene Cox led a team supported by masters runners Cynthia Hastings and Jean Smith (results).

At the Pontiac Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City on September 29, Dave Cahill and Joe Grand both ran 4:52, with Cahill just edging out Grand for 23rd place. Not bad for a couple of sprinters, especially out of 671 runners. The NYRRC has a picture of Dave up in front of the pack in the elite group just before the race.

At the Lake Winnipesaukee Relay on September 22 --- a seven-leg relay race for seventy miles around Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire --- the open women "Scheme for a Scream" team placed third, the open men "Drifters" team placed fourth, the mixed masters "Mass Mixters" team placed sixth, and the mixed open "Dregs & Dross" team placed thirteenth (results and pictures).

Jim Pawlicki, Dennis Floyd, and Tim Mccusker finished 1-2-3 with 30:56 in the five-mile cross-country race at Lynn Woods on September 19.

The Greater Boston teams of men and women finished fourth and sixth at the CVS/Pharmacy Downtown 5K in Providence on September 16. The results were close. Just seven seconds a man would have beaten Greater Lowell, and four seconds per woman would have beaten Greater Springfield. Coach Tom Derderian declared the post race party put on by Lee and Mylene Cox in their house on top of the hill overlooking the start in downtown Providence as the best post race party ever (results and pictures).

Greater Boston's Christopher Simpson was elected athlete representative along with New Balance athlete Jon Russell at the annual meeting for the New England chapter of the USA Track and Field Association held at Brandeis on September 17. These athletes will sit on the USATFNE board of directors and comment and vote on any issues brought before the board. They will sit on the board along with Greater Boston treasurer and USATFNE treasurer Jim O'Brien.

Greater Boston teams came home with the money from the team four-mile race in Acushnet on September 3, winning first place in both the men's and women's divisions. Not only that, our Dennis Floyd won the entire race and our Jessica Blake won the women's race breaking the course record held by GBTC's Christina Manolatou. Tim McCusker, Matt Nolan, and Rodney Rerko ran their first races representing GBTC. There is a great article about the race on SouthCoast Today that includes pictures of our winning teammates (results).

New GBTC runner Michael McGrane late of Iowa ran to third place in the Cape Ann 25K on September 3 in Gloucester. Claire McManus finished seventh in her division, and Kara Narath finished twentieth in hers (results).

At the Lynn Woods Cross-Country Relay on August 22 (4x2.5 miles), the men's teams finished 1,2,5,8,22, the women's teams finished 1,2,7, and the men's master's team finished 3. Ten women ran under the gold standard of 17:30 minutes, and eleven men ran under 15:00 minutes. The coaches named Dennis Floyd as the club's most valuable runner in the race and awarded him the coveted last RLX Polo Sport Travel bag (results).

Jim Pawlicki won the Beverly Homecoming 5K on August 2 (results).

Katie Carda finished tenth in her division running at the Yankee Homecoming 10 Miler on July 31 in Newburyport, leading the women's team to an eighth place finish. Other club runners were Brad Stayton, Dick Nickerson, Claire McManus, Andi Goodman, Melinda Casey, and Gary Snyder (results).

Sarah Lawson picked up two silvers and one bronze at the Masters Outdoor Track & Field National Championships July 25-28 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, wearing the GBTC colors. In her age group (W35), she placed second in the 100 meters with 14.12, second in the 200 meters with 28.49, and third in the 400 meters with 63.65. Sarah ran her 100 meter race in a 4mph headwind, which is a huge negative wind!

Courtney Trainor finished 15th out of 25 at the Junior Olympics National Championships in the young women's division (17-18) in Sacramento, California on July 24-29. Kourtney was entered in the 400mIH, the shot put, and the heptathlon. With her 3650 point heptathlon entry she was ranked 19th going into this week's national competition. With her 1:06.50 entry in the 400m intermediate hurdles, she was ranked 17th in the nation out of a strong field of 38 young female athletes. In shot put, Kourtney's 9.96m entry ranked her among the top 30 in the country.

The men's team took third place at the USATF National Club Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, sending six members to the two-day competition to determine the best USATF club in the nation. The men scored points in the 4x100 (third place), the sprint medley (second), 800 meters (fourth and fifth), 400 meters IH (third), 5000 meters (third), discus (second) and hammer (first) (results).

After four of the seven events, GBTC's Jessica Blake retains her lead in the USATF New England Grand Prix by 2 points, and Lynn Johnson is coming in at fifth. Kelly Box also made the honor roll as did Judy Romvos for 50+ women and Dick Nickerson for 60+ men. Colin McArdle and Coach Tom Derderian made the 50+ list.

The men's and women's open teams each placed sixth at the Stowe 8 Miler in Vermont on July 15, and the women's masters team finished seventh. Jesse Darley was our lead male runner finishing 24th in 43:30, and Jessica Blake led the women with a 48:10 (results).

The club put in twelve performances at the USATF East Region/Connecticut Track & Field Championships in New London, Connecticut, on July 8, Dave Cahill second in the 400 meter int hurdles, Paul Smith second in the pole vault, and Achebe Hope finishing third in the 100 and 200 meter races (results).

Meg Moore won the Wakefield, Take the Lake, 5K by four seconds on Sunday July 8 (results).

Katie Carda won the Uxbridge 5 or so mile trail race and the Fresh Pond race making her the winningest GBTC runner of the weekend June 30 weekend.

See the final results of the 2001 edition of the GBTC Relays that was held on Sunday, June 24, at Boston College High School in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The Greater Boston Track Club won the men's and women's divisions of the USATF New England Outdoor Track Championships in Dedham on June 16 with dominating point totals of 81-13 and 20-14, respectively. (results)

John Blouin lead the club to the top of the Mount Washington Road Race in 1:19:04. Seven members of the club ran in the race, including George Clement, Jeff O'Neill, William Duncan, Jessica Blake, Nicole Robichaud, and Judy Romvos. (Pictures of Jeff O'Neill and Jessica Blake and full results)

Karim-Ben Saunders won the 100 and 200, Marc Lefebvre won the high jump, and Lynn Johnson won the 3000 at the USATF New England Twilight Track and Field Meet in Dedham, on June 9. Andy Silvia and Dennis Floyd set personal records, and the club won both the men's and women's 4 x 400 relays. All this is leading up to the USATF New England Championships next weekend. (results)

Aaron Brinsko broke his own club record of 1:52.60 over 800 meters with a 1:52.30 at the USATF New England Twilight Meet on June 2. In the same race, Christopher Simpson made a great leap down with a season best of 1:53.50 down from a 1:56. The women are still a few seconds away from going under 2:20 for another club record.

At the Bedford Rotary 12K on May 19 --- the USATF New England 12K Championship --- Jessica Blake won the race and led a team including Lynn Johnson and Kelly Box to third place; and Arnold Seto led a team including Jesse Darley, John Blouin, Ben Nephew, and Jim Pawlicki to fifth place. Our champion Jessica is also leading the New England Grand Prix for open women.

The May issue of the club newsletter is now available.

Jessica Blake won the Run for the Roses women's 5K in Salisbury, Massachusetts, on May 16. Jessica ran 17:29 to win, with Lynn Johnson in second place with 17:33. Kelly Box finished second in her age group with a personal best in 19:05, and Katie Carda ran a terrific race to slip under 20:00 by 4 seconds, and Cynthia Hastings finished in 36:27. (results)

On April 29, Richard Voliva drove back from the Penn Relays, arriving at 3:15am and falling asleep at 5:30, and then bursting away to get to the start of the James Joyce 10k where he led the club, running 32 minutes! Over 30 club members ran in the race.

At the Penn Relays on April 27-28, the GBTC 4x100 meter relay team broke the club record, posting a 41.92 for fourth place. The 4x400 meter relay team finished fourth with 3:22.86, and distance medley relay team finished fifth with 10:20.73, and Karim-Ben Saunders finished sixth in the 100 meter with 10.68. (photos)

At the Northeastern University Husky Invitational on April 21, Joe Welch won the hammer throw, Eric Sherry won the 800, and Karim-Ben Saunders and Jeff Soderquist placed second and fourth in the 100, along with nearly a dozen other athletes competing for the club (results). Elsewhere, Maura McDonald won the Greenfield 10K by one second in 38:40; and in the Fresh Pond our women's team placed 3, 4, 5, in the Five Miler with Marguerite DoRosario, Meg Moore, and Michelle Lang finished third, fourth, and fifth at the Fresh Pond five mile race, and Dennis Floyd finished second in the men's division.

At the Boston Marathon on April 16, the women's team of Jess Blake, Lynn Johnnson, and Sheila Logan finished second (averaging under three hours), and the men's team of Teles Kananga, Peter Dougherty, and Arnold Seto placed fourth! See pictures of our runners.

On April 14, Ben Nephew defended his title at the Merrimack River Trail Run, finishing the 10-mile race in 62:18. Second place was over 5 minutes behind. Katie Carda was the fourth woman to finish, and Greg MacGowan was twenty-third, and both suffer their share of trail-running injuries.

The season is still young, and Johann Jack, Matt Collins, Aaron Brinsko, and Dave Callum set four club records and two personal bests at the Duke Invitational on April 6-7 (photos).

Johann Jack finished fourth in the 100 meter race at the Raleigh Relays at North Carolina State University on March 31, and Joe Grand ran a personal best in the 1500 meter race (results for men and women, photos). That same day, Bill Newsham and Cam Dauler finished third and fourth in the TVFR 15K Boston Tune-Up in Upton, followed by Judy Romvos and Richard Jones (results).

Fourteen men from the club competed in the USA National Masters Indoor Track & Field Championship over the weekend of March 24-25. The 4x400 and 4x800 teams won; Vic Radzevich won the pole vault; Steve Keyes won the long jump by three and a half feet, and placed second in the 400 and third in the 60; Art Henson won the high jump by eight inches; and Stephen Putnam placed third in the 3000. Read a blow-by-blow account of the meet by Chris Simpson.

Steve Putnam, Bryan Doldt, and Cam Dauler finished fifth, eighth, and eleventh in the Charbo's Run five-miler in Dorchester on March 25 (results for men and women). Lynn Johnson and Jessica Blake placed second and third in the women's division of the Eastern States twenty-miler in Salisbury on the same day, along with Kathryn Masselam and Cora Volchock, and John Blouin, Teles Kananga, and Jim Pawlicki finished seventh, eighth, and fourteenth in the men's division (results and pictures). And Aaron Brinkso and Meg Moore won the 2.5 miles races at Fresh Pond.

Arnold Seto finished fifth in the Powerbar Twenty Mile race in New York City on March 24, leading Ken Agabian and Pam Chang to the finish line (results for men and women).

GBTC will travel to compete in the first National Track and Field Club Championships in Indianapolis on July 19-21. The event is organized by the USATF and will be hosted by the Indianapolis-based Indiana Invaders.

At the New Bedford Half Marathon on March 18, Deon Barrett finished in fifth place, followed by Shawn Mcsheffery, Joe Grand, Ken Agabian, Rachel Shanor, and Cora Volchok (results). That same morning, in the 2.5 mile races at Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Helena Kimball, Meg Moore, and Jessica Kinney finished 1-2-3, and Chris Simpson won the men's race.

On March 17, Aaron Brinsko picked up second place in the 800 with a time of 1:53.25 at the Hurricane Invitational in Florida (the meet director invited Brinsko on the basis of his indoor times this season, results); Maura McDonald took tenth place in a fiercely completive, women's field on a hilly course in the Saint Patrick's Day 10k in Holyoke (results); and Jason Burke ran second place in the Marin Trails Half Marathon north of San Francisco.

At the Melrose Half Marathon on March 11, Jessica Lee Blake and Lynn Johnson finished in the money in second and third, and Teles Kanaga and Deon Barrett led the men to 11th and 14th place finishes. (results)

Jessica Blake won the Hyannis Half Marathon on February 25; and Jim Pawlicki, Rob Carroll, Matt Lyons, and Bill Newsham finished 4th, 7th, 8th, and 16th in the Hyannis Marathon and qualified for the Boston Marathon; and Brooke Carroll was the first GBTC woman in the full marathon and she also qualified.. Snow and sleet fell from the sky, and slush and cold water splashed under foot. (results)

GBTC rules! The men and women won the USATF New England Indoor Track Championship on Sunday, February 18, with 99 and 41 points, winning by margins of 88 and 25 points. Among the women, Lynn Johnson won the 5,000; and Kourtney Trainor and Lisa Chadderdon finished third and fourth in the shot put and weight throw. Among the men, Sekou Dilday won the 400; Art Henson, Marc Lefebvre, Sean Earle, and Ron Tauro took the top four places in the high jump; Steve Keyes, Jeff Soderquist, and Art Henson took the top three places in the long jump; Joe Welch took second in both the shot put and weight throw; Johann Jack and Achebe Hope finished second and third in the 200; the men took second and third places in the 4x400, and took second, third, and fourth places in the DMR, with the fourth place finish setting a master's record for the meet. (results)

At the Saint Valentine Invitational on February 10, Johann Jack won the 55 meter dash in 6.35. The men's 4x400 team of Matt Collins, Mark Reynolds, Dave Cahill, and Sekou Dilday set a club record of 3:18.75; and the men's Distance Medley team of Chris Simpson, Chris Coxen, Aaron Brinsko, and Rich Voliva took fourth with 10:30.49. Aaron Brinsko ran a club season best in the 800 of 1:52.78 and Chris Simpson ran 1:52.78. Jessica Blake and Lynn Johnson ran excellent times in the 3,000 and 5,000.

At the New Balance Invitational on February 4, Johann Jack ran the 60 meter dash in 6.84 against an experienced field of nearly all international and Olympian runners, breaking his club record he set at this meet last year.

At the Great Stew Chase on February 3, Lynn Johnson won the women's race by a comfortable margin. John Blouin finished fourth, although Teles Kananga, our new man, was in third place with 1200 meters to go. (results and pictures)

At the Terrier Classic on January 27, the women's Distance Medley Relay team placed a surprising third after being seeded last in a field of eleven. Behind only Yale and Seton Hall, Jessica Blake, Heather Deixler, Michelle Lang, and Lynn Johnson challenged the club record of 12:37 set last year with 12:51.51. Johann Jack finished third in the 55 meter dash. The men's 4x800 team of Mark Reynolds, Dave Cahill, Sekou Dilday, and Matt Collins set a new club record with 3:20 for a sixth place finish. Our men also finished seventh and eighth in the 400 and seventh in the 4x400.

See the final results of the GBTC Invitational indoor track meet that was held at Harvard University on Sunday, January 21. The women's 4x220 yard relay team of Melissa Sullivan, Sakeena Baccas, Christine Kloiber, and Kristen Piticco obliterated the club record of 2:06 with a 1:54.27. In the midst of many other notable accomplishments by club members, personal bests were churned out by Katie Carda in the 3,000 and Jessica Blake and Michelle Lang in the mile, and Rich Voliva and John Blouin finished 1 and 2 in their heat of the mile. The Boston Globe ran an interesting story about the meet. The tentative date for the next meet is Sunday, January 20, 2002.

At the Boston University All-Comers Winter Series on January 13, Lynn Johnson moved to the top of the club performance list in the mile, Katie Carda ran her best 3,000 of the season. Several men, including Bryan Doldt, Peter Dougherty, Peter DiMarzio, Steve Putnam, Scott Saleska, and Bill Newsham, also ran for the club in the mile and 3,000.

At the Dartmouth Relays on January 12, Gary Snyder ran in the 55, 200, and 400 meter masters races, and Mike Wall in the 200 meter masters race. Jessica Blake led the team with a ninth place in the 3,000, just a few seconds off her season best. Michelle Lang ran 13th in the mile, just a few days after having some wisdom teeth extracted. Yawa-Duse Anthony and Lisa Chadderdon threw well, and the team of Sakeena Baccas, Melissa Sullivan, Christine Kloiber, and Kristin Pitocco ran well, but, unfortunately, were disqualified for being outside of the zone in the 4x200. Johann Jack won the 55 meter race, and high jumpers Marc Lefebvre, Ron Tauro, and Sean Earle finished in positions 2, 3, and 5, all over 6' 4"! The 4x200 and Distance Medley team took second, and Joe Welch took third in the weight.

On January 9, our weekly track workouts moved indoors to the newly resurfaced MIT indoor track. Workouts consist of an outdoor warmup at 7:00 p.m. and an indoor workout at 7:30 p.m. each Tuesday through the end of March 2001.

2000

The GBTC Holiday Party was held at the Cafe on the Charles at the Mount Auburn Club in Watertown on December 14. Nearly thirty people showed up. See the pictures of what you missed.

Jon Berit is compiling the Grand Prix standings for the 2000-2001 track season. Watch this list as the season progresses.

Joe Welch won the weight throw and Art Hensen won the high jump at the Harvard Invitational on December 9, both setting new GBTC records. The women's 4x440 relay team of Melissa Sullian, Sakeena Baccas, Adria Ferguson, and Christine Kloiber also set a new club record, breaking the record set by the club's team in this meet last year. See the results and the start of this year's indoor track performance list.

GBTC teams got off to a great start on the indoor track season with 12 women's performances and a torrent of 34 men's, including wins by Johann Jack and Jeff Soderquest in the 55 meter and long jump events, at the Northeastern University Husky Track and Field Carnival on December 2. We also fielded shot putters, pole vaulters, and relay runners, and a whole lot of fans. (results)

Glen Mays, Jessica Blake, and Claire McManus led teams of 10 men, 6 women, and 3 masters women to 16th, 13th, and 3rd place finishes at the USA National Cross Country Championships at Franklin Park on November 25. It was a great day, as no runner from the club had a bad race today. Claire herself finished this national contest in 10th place overall!

Glen Mays and Maura McDonald lead GBTC men's and women's teams to sixth and seventh place finishes at USATF New England Cross Country Championships at Franklin Park on November 12, and Cynthia Hastings and Mark Reeder led the masters teams. (results)

Glen Mays set a new course record at the Run Through the Grapevine 8k cross-country race at the Linganore Winery on Sunday, November 5, and made the front page of Cool Running.

On November 5, Shannon Bassett, Peter Diaferia, Patricio Meneses, Ken Ross, and Johanna Thornblad ran for the club at the New York City Marathon (results), and Brian Beaulieu, Michelle Lang, and Ben Nephew ran for the club at the Country Club Classic in Methuen, Massachusetts (results).

The club's Noble & Greenough 5K cross-country race was held on Sunday, October 29, 2000 at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham. The complete results are now available.

In Boston, Glen Mays led the men's team to fourth place in the Mayor's Cup cross-country race on October 22, and Jessicia Blake led the women to fifth place. (results) Glen Mays, Kyle Schneck, Rodney Hemingway, Peter Dougherty, Jim Pawlicki, and Dennis Floyd scored points for the men, and Jessica Blake, Maura McDonald, Michelle Lang, Katherine Carda, and Melanie Watkins scored points for the women. In Chicago, Mark Reeder finished fourteenth in the master's division at the Chicago Marathon, and Claire McManus, one of our top masters runners, finished as the 111th woman overall. (results)

Bruce Bond, Jeff O'Neill, Scott Saleska, and Bob Ward ran in the Cape Cod Marathon on October 29. The club also had a relay team of Claire McManus (just one week after running Chicago in 3:16), Dino Kostantopoulos, Payal Parekh, Kirsten Engel, and Austin Platt. This team finished fourth in the mixed open division. (results)

The club's annual meeting was held on Tuesday, October 17, 2000 at the Mount Auburn Club in Watertown. Sixty-five people attended the meeting, and almost half of the room was filled with sprinters and jumpers and throwers! (pictures)

The club took 8 of the top 20 places in the USATF New England developmental 5K cross-country race on October 15, with a total of 19 members racing that day, and then proceed on to a brisk and frisky practice over the cross-country course after the race. Everything is on track for the great Boston Mayor's Cup coming up. (results)

Ben Nephew placed second in the second USATF New England developmental 5K cross-country race on October 8, with Matt Flinders, Noah Kraut, Brian Beaulieu, Garret Tingle, Katie Carda, and Stephanie Tenuto following up (results). Michelle Lang finished in 20th place at the Applefest half marathon in 1:36:47, and Kara Narath finished the St. George Marathon in 3:37:51. Nine members ran in the Hollis half-marathon on October 7.

The men's and women's teams each finished in fifth place at the Ro-Jacks 8K New England Grand Prix Championship. Glen Mays led the men and Christina Manolatou the women. (results, photos)

The club sent four teams to the great Lake Winnipesaukee Relay in New Hampshire on Saturday, September 23. The teams ran well on a cool, overcast, but windless day, followed by the traditional post-race party. Some runners even went sailing on the lake the next morning. (results)

The GBTC men and women finished in fifth and seventh place at the Brewery Exchange Classic 5K (New England 5K Championship) on September 10. The men and women's masters teams finished in eighth and fifth places. See pictures from the race. On the same day, Chris Simpson won the Falmouth Main Street Mile with winning time of 4:34.

The GBTC women's swept the top for places at the Acushnet 4 Miler on September 4. Christina Manolatou (23:45, new course record), Jessica Blake (also broke old course record), Megan Day, and Marua McDonald won the top $300 team prize. The men's team of John Blouin, Ben Nephew, Rod Hemingway, and Noah Kraut finished third behind two BAA teams. Go team.

The women's open team of Claire McManus, Judy Romvos, Erin Cullinane, and Shannon Bassett took second place at the Cape Ann 25K on September 4.

The women's GBTC "M" team of Megan Day, Michelle Lang, Meg Mitchell, and Mel Watkins won the Lynn Woods Cross-Country Relay on Wednesday, August 23. The men's GBTC "Jumbo" team lost by just five seconds to a Greater Lowell team.

Greg MacGowan won his age group (eighth overall) in the New Brunswick "Marathon By the Sea" on August 20, the New Brunswick Marathon Championship.

A GBTC summer social and cookout being planned for Sunday, August 13, at Larz Anderson Park in Brookline. If you are interested, contact Erin Cullinane by August 6.

GBTC men dominated the Bay State Games Finals in Worcester on July 22. Johann Jack won the 100 and 200, Jeff Soderquist won the long jump and placed second in the 100, Aaron Brinsko won the 800, Dave Cahill won the 400, Bill Newsham took second in the 5,000 and sixth in the mile, Christopher Simpson took second in the mile and third in the 800, and player-coach David Callum took third in the 200.

Stephanie Tenuto and Cynthia Hastings took the top two places in the women's long cross-country race in the Lynn Woods Cross-Country Series on Wednesday, July 19.

At the Blue Hills trail race, Ben Nephew won in a course record time of about 63 minutes for about 7 miles, and Stephanie Tenuto was the second women to finish. At the Wakefield 5K on July 6, Meg Mitchell finished as the fourth woman in 18:47, a personal best. At the Marathon Sports Wellesley 5 Mile Road Race on July 13, Mark Reeder was first master, Andi Goodman and Dick Nickerson finished second in their respective age groups, and Cam Dauler fifth in his age group.

Ben Nephew and Jim Pawlicki won the 2.5 and 5.5 mile cross country races at the Lynn Woods Cross-Country Series on July 5, and Cynthia Hastings won the women's 5.5 mile race. A number of club members ran in this wonderful staple of cross-country running in New England.

On a spectacular Tuesday evening, June 20, the club filled the men's open field with several Bay State finalists. With only seven competitors, the club won six of the fourteen events, placed second in three, and third in one.

Champions! The men's and women's teams finished first and second at the USATF New England Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the Northeastern track in Dedham on June 17. With twelve women and thirty men running, it is impossible to list all of the gutsy plays and personal records from the meet, but here are a few: Julie Spolidoro, Christina Manolatou, and Jessica Blake finished first, second, and third in the 10,000m; Yawa Duse-Anthony won the shot put; Johann Jack won the 100 and 200, with a personal and possibly facility and club record of 10.40 in the 100, and scored 12 points in four events for the club; BJ Gary won the discus; Jeff Soderquist won the long jump and ran the second leg of the winning 4x100 relay team; Mark Reynolds won the high jump; and Terry O'Neill won the 400m IH hurdles. (results)

The men's open team finished in fourth place at the Market Square Day 10K in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on June 10. The men finished in the order John Blouin, James Pawlicki, Bret Van Poppel, Ben Nephew, and Rod Hemingway, but the story is that this simple list doesn't capture the excitement between clubs and among club members during the race. The women's open team of Christina Manolatou, Meg Mitchell, Alda Cossi, Michelle Lang, and Melanie Watkins finished eighth; the women's masters team of Alda Cossi, Judy Romvos, and Elizabeth Spelman finished sixth (Alda scored points for both the open and the master's team!); and the men's masters team of Bruce Bond, Michael Olivo, Richard Pierce, Richard Jones, and Bob Ward finished sixteenth. (results)

Johan Jack won the 100 and the 200 in terrific times at the fourth Twilight Track & Field Meet on June 10. The 4x100 team had the crowd standing on their feet. We had BJ Gary in the hammer throw, our first hammer thrower in years. We had debuts by Melissa Sullivan in the 800 and Kristin Pitocco in the 200. We had good performances by many athletes, including Aaron Brisko (800), Chris Coxen (800), Chris Simpson (800), Bill Newsham (mile), and Gregory Putnam (mile). (results)

The 2000 GBTC Relays were washed out due to four inches of rain and wind at the MIT track on June 6. There is no rain date. We will try again next year and hope for better weather.

The Greater Boston women swept the 10,000 meter championship race at the Twilight Track & Field Meet on May 27. Julie Spolidoro (35:29), Christina Manolatou (36:18), Jessica Blake (37:26), and Megan Day (38:52) finished first, second, third, and sixth among the New England runners. The points from this victory vault the women into first place in the USATF New England Outdoor Track and Field Championship. The remainder of the championship will be contested on June 17. (results)

The Greater Boston Track Club won several events at the USATF New England mini-meet at MIT on May 24. Julie Spolidoro won the women's mile in a personal best of 4:58.1, and new member Jessica Blake (Middlebury College) placed second in 5:25.4. Spolidoro also won the 800 in 2:20.8, and new member Courtney O'Connor (Williams College) ran 2:37.2. New member Kristin Pitocco ran for the club for the first time in the 400. Eric Green won the mile in 4:47.1 (his father placed 3rd in the 1960 Boston Marathon). Dave Cahill (UMASS) ran the 400 in 50.0. The men's 800 provided some drama when Arron Brinsko (Syracuse), Christopher Simpson (Brandeis), Rich Voliva (Harvard), and Casey Comisky (Leominster) finished in 2:00.5, 2:00.7, 2:03.9, and 2:07.2. (no results online)

The May issue of the Wingfoot Express is now on line.

Gregory Putnam earned the first points for the club in the USATF New England Outdoor Track and Field Championships. He ran 32:35 in the championship 10,000 meter race held at the Twilight Track & Field Meet on May 20, placing third among the New England runners in the race and putting the club in second place (the two guys finishing in front of him were from the same club, hence second place for our club). The rest of the men's meet is contested on June 17. Maura McDonald, our only woman in the Twilight meet, won the women's 3,000 meters by two seconds. Club members put in fifteen performances at the Twilight meet, including Johann Jack first in the 100 and Woodson Michel and Galen Maze first and second in their heat of the 100, Mark Reynolds and Bryant Mitchell second in their heats of the 400, and Aaron Brisko second in the 800. (full results)

The men's and women's teams placed fourth in the Bedford Rotary 12K on May 20, with the women's team just eight seconds away from third place, and the women's masters team placed fifth. Over thirty members ran in this USATF New England Grand Prix event, with notable performances by Rod Hemingway and Jim Pawlicki and by new members Michelle Lee, Michelle Lang, Lisa Boulay, and Mel Watkins. (full results)

The Greater Boston team put in some fine performances at the renowned Penn Relays, one of the greatest traditions in American track and field, over the April 28-30 weekend. Julie Spolidoro, running for Old Dominion, ran a personal best of 16:34 in the 5,000 meter race. The men's 4x100 team of Antonio Arrendel, Jeff Soderquist, David Callum, and Johann Jack finished fourth in 42.13, a possible club record. The women's 4x100 team of Lauren Putnam, Rhane Hobson, Sakeena Baccas, and Melissa Sullivan finished fifth with 51.19. The men's 4x400 team of Sean Ballou, Mark Reynolds, Terry O'Neill, and David Cahill finished eighth in 3:23.92. The women's 4x400 team of Melissa Sullivan, Katie Alexis, Sakeena Baccas, and Lauren Putnam finished sixth in 4:10.99.

Several dozen members of the club ran in the Boston Marathon on April 17, and all have good stories to tell, but perhaps the most impressive performance was by Mark Reeder who finished as tenth master and fourth American master. Awesome job, Mark.

New members Malanie Watkins and Michelle Lang placed second and fifth in their age groups at the BC 5K on April 9.

In a Boston Globe article on club rivalry at the Boston Marathon, Coach Tom Derderian was quoted extensively. The article appears on page D11 of the April 10 issue.

The Greater Boston Track Club turned the Tufts University track red at the Snowflake Classic invitational track meet on April 1. New member Sharon Benedict won the women's 10,000 meters, lapping the entire field! Christina Manolatou won the women's 5,000 meters with a personal best, Maura McDonald and Megan Day took second and third. Mark Reeder and John Blouin took second and third in the men's 10,000 meters, and Glen Mays was forced to give up an enormous lead and drop out with leg cramps. The men won the 4x100 relay with the team of Antonio Arrendel, Jeff Soderquist, David Callum, and Johann Jack. Jeff Soderquist won the long jump. Marc Lefebrve won the high jump.

Judy Gutry finished second in her age group in the Cohasset By The Sea Road Race on April 2, a 10K race with difficult hills in which only two-thirds of the starters actually finished. (results)

Ben Nephew won the Merrimack River Trail Race on March 25 in Andover, beating course record holder Dave Dunham. Stephanie Tenuto and Claire McManus also ran (results). Meg Mitchell finished second at the Fresh Pond 2.5 mile race in 15:06. Glen Mays and Bret van Poppel finished second and sixth at the Eastern States 20 Miler on March 26. Ken Ross, Sharon Benedict, Scott Saleska, Carmen Danforth, and Robert Ward also ran (results, pictures). Arnold Seto finished sixth in the 20 Miler Overall Powerbar race in New York.

Ben Nephew won the 19-24 age division and Mark Reeder placed second in the 40-44 age division at the New Bedford Half Marathon (results). Megan Day won the South Boston Saint Patricks Day 5K (results), and Maura McDonald took fourth in the Holyoke Saint Patricks Day 10K (results). The Mayor of Boston had the privilege of having his photo taken with Megan.

Christina Manolatou won the Melrose Half Marathon on March 12, winning the women's USATF New England Grand Prix Championship, and leading the women's team to second place. This is the best GBTC team finish, men or women, in the modern era. New member Sharon Benedict and Megan Day completed the team. The men's team finished sixth, in spite of the fact that a couple of our best runners were hampered by injury or pain during the race. Nonetheless, our second through sixth men ran personal records, or close to them, on a tough course in the rain. (full results, pictures)

Meg Mitchell won the Honeyfitz Saint Patrick's Day 5K in Malden on March 5 with a personal best of 19:13 (and finished fifteenth overall). Congratulations, Meg! (full results)

The lean, mean, seniors machine is looking for a few good women to race with them on the seniors women's team in the USATF New England Grand Prix events, beginning with the Melrose Half Marathon on March 12. If you are interested, feel free to contact Dotty Fine at dfine@partners.org.

John Blouin finished third in the Fort Worth Marathon in 2:40:12 on February 26, finishing just behind Olympian Keith Brantly. Glen Mays won the Cape Cod Times Marathon in 2:30:43 the next day, and Bret Von Popple finished fifth in 2:50; and Mark Reeder finished third in the concurrent half marathon in 1:15:20. At the Amherst 10 Miler, Cam Dauler finished seventh in 57:15 and Cynthia Hastings finished as the seventh masters woman in 77:08. All of these runners will be racing for the club in the Boston Marathon.

For the third year in a row, the men's team won USATF New England Indoor Track & Field Championship on February 18. The women's team finished fourth. Jeff Soderquist led the team point tally with 11 points gathered from long jump, triple jump, and 55 meters. Johann Jack won the 55 meters outright and finished as the top New Englander in the 200. But it was the Distance Medley Relay team's victory that put away the championship. Christopher Simpson, Aaron Brinsko, Mark Reynolds, and Mark Tompkins showed terrific team work to secure the victory. Christina Manolatou gathered the greatest number of points for the women's team. She ran her personal best by a huge 11 seconds in the 3,000. Megan Day ran her personal best winning the unseeded mile. The Distance Medley Relay team won their race over all-comers. (full results).

The next morning, February 19, after running the New England championship 3,000 the night before, Glen Mays drove through the snow to catch the ferry to Martha's Vineyard to win the Martha's Vineyard 20 Miler by seven whole minutes. (full results)

Julie Spolidoro, who runs for GBTC when she is not at college, placed fifth in the US trials for world cross country. See details and muddy photos. Shalane Flanagan, who has attended GBTC workouts with Julie, won the race.

The Greater Boston men's 4x800 team of Aaron Brinsko, Andie Colon, Dave Cahill, and Chris Simpson ran 8:00.06 to place fourth in the club relay at the New Balance Invitational elite meet held on the Reggie Lewis track on February 6. Joahnn Jack ran 6.86 in the 60 meter. Coach Tom Derderian ran in the masters mile. (results)

Glen Mays, Deon Barrett, and Bret Vanpoppel placed first, fourth, and ninth in the Stew Chase 15K on February 5. In addition, five GBTC runners won clocks for placing in the top six in their age groups. Conditions, for midwinter, were good, but a stiff headwind on the last half of the course slowed all runners. (results, partial team picture, all pictures)

Several members of the club ran well at the Terrier Classic held at the Boston University indoor track the weekend of January 29-30. Both the men's and women's distance medley relay teams ran the best they've ever run at the Terrier Classic. The women's team of Maura McDonald (1200 meters, 3:56), Katie Alexis (400, 63), Marcia Thomas (800, 2:30), and Christina Manolatou (1600, 5:07) ran a total time of 12:37.92, beating the 1998 Terrier time by 11 seconds. The men's team of Mark Tompkins (1200, 3:05), Bryant Mitchell (400, 51), Christopher Simpson (800, 1:59), and Glenn Mays (1600, 4:17) ran 10:12. Both teams, perhaps of different composition, will try to break these times at the New England Championship on February 18 (photos).

See the final results and pictures from the GBTC Invitational indoor track meet held at the Harvard indoor track on January 23, 2000. There is a nice article by USATF New England's Steve Vaitones about high school athletes competing at the meet. You can also read about other talented athletes and teams who ran in the meet, and see a list of recent meet records. Contact meet director Jim O'Brien at jobrien@cambridgetrust.com or (617) 441-1548 for more information.

Times are changing, and the club is changing, too. The board of directors has decided that it is time to re-write the club's mission statement, a document intended to give guidance to the board when making decisions in the future. If you would like to participate in this process, please contact Greg MacGowan at gsmac@hotmail.com.

Ben Nephew was named Trail Runner of the Year in the January issue of New England Runner, commenting that "this one was a no-brainer." Deon Barrett and Jesse Darley were chosen as two of the top 25 open male runners in New England. The magazine contains a good picture of Glen Mays and Mark Tompkins running the Boston Mayor's Cup, and picture of Frank Monkiewicz buried near the front of a huge pack of runners on the last page. Finally, the GBTC Invitational is mentioned in several places, including comments about the meet records set last year and about Reebok Boston's Darin Shearer's 3:59.94 mile last year.

1999

For the first time in history, the Greater Boston Track Club, whose men's team won the entire championship in the early 1980s, fielded both a men's and a women's team in the 1999 USATF National Cross Country Championship in Long Beach on December 5. Be sure to read the whole story!

The club has moved indoors. Every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., runners gather in the lobby of the indoor track to warm up, and the practice itself starts at 7:30 p.m. For those of you who still want to run outdoors, river runs are back with a vengence! Every Tuesday at 7:15 p.m., a group of a dozen runners gather and gossip in the lobby of the indoor track before embarking on their 4, 6, or 8 mile run around the Charles River. Runners of all abilities are welcome. Come join us!

Christina Manolatou finished in 14th place at the New England Cross Country Championships at Franklin Park on November 14, leading a team of 16 women to sixth place in the 6K race, the largest team in the current era. Cynthia Hastings led the masters' team to third place, and Dotty Fine led the seniors' team to second. Glen Mays finished in 13th place, leading the men's open team to a fourth place finish in their 10K race, and Mark Reeder finished in 9th place, leading the men's masters team to sixth place in the 8K race. This regional championship was used to select members to represent the club in the national cross-country championship in California in December. Runners representing the club will be: Glen Mays, Deon Barrett, Mark Tompkins, Matt Tompkins, John Blouin, and Ben Nephew; and Christina Manolatou, Marua McDonald, Livvy Williams, Megan Day, Payal Parekh, Katie Carda. (full results, photos)

Mike Olivo is the club's new Ironman, winning the designation from the USATF New England Association for competing in all of the USATF New England Grand Prix events this summer. (photos)

The club held its annual meeting at Ashdown House on October 12. The coaches' awards went to Maria Sun for organizing the sprinters and to Bob Ward for racing and volunteering for nearly every club event. The track grand prix winners were Livvy Williams and Dave Cahill (you can see the full details for yourself). The new board of directors is Doug Burdi, Dave Cahill, Melinda Casey, Erin Cullinane, Greg MacGowan, Sandy Miller, Jim O'Brien, Mike Olivo, Jim Pawlicki, and Gary Snyder (they will elect their president and other officers at the next board meeting on October 27). And then we moved on to the important business: pizza and beer. (photos)

Christina Manolatou and Claire McManus finished 29th and 58th (10th and 12th in their age groups) in a field of 6,500 at the Tufts 10K for Women, also serving as the 10K National Championships. A total of fifteen women from the club ran in this race. (full results; photos)

The GBTC men's cross-country team won the $5000 Home Depot Cross-Country Invitational on October 10, 1999, beating the Syracuse Chargers Track Club with a score of 26 to 30, with the top five GBTC runners finishing within a tight 24 seconds of each other. The team won $600, and team members Glenn Mays and Deon Barrett won $100 and $75 cash prizes for their individual performances. Next stop: the Boston Mayor's Cup at Franklin Park. (full results)

Jim Pawlicki won the Yankee Runner 5K at the Governor Dummer Academy on September 26, and Katie Carda finished third.

At the Lake Winnipesaukee Relay, the GBTC masters women's team finished second and the GBTC open mixed team finished third. The club had a total five teams running in this 66-mile relay race, a major tradition for the club. (full results, photos)

Over the September 18 weekend, Jim Pawlicki won his race in Gloucester; Cynthia Hastings won the five mile town race in Winthrop; Deon Barrett finished 23rd (8th American) at the Harvard Pilgrim Downtown 5 Mile race in Providence; Maura McDonald improved by a full minute her 5K road time of last spring with a 5K cross-country time at the UMass Dartmouth Cross-Country Invitational; and Kerry Saurez ran a much faster time at Fresh Pond. What a weekend.

The entire men's open team ran at a pace of less than five minutes per mile at the Brewery Exchange 5K on September 12, finishing in third place. Even the second five men produced a better team than we had last year. Christina Manolatou led our women's open team to a sixth place finish and surprised many with her seventh place finish, and a great race by Judy Romvos lead our women's masters team to its own sixth place finish. See photos of the race and the full race results.

Deon Barrett set a new course record of 19:39 at the four-mile Acushnet Road Race on September 6, beating the prior record by 61 seconds, motivating in a nice article about the race in the local paper. In fact, the men's team won the race, beating the Gutterhawk Athletic Club in a friendly rematch after being beaten by the Gutterhawks at the Lynn Woods Relay a just few weeks earlier, and the women's team placed second in their race. Both teams brought home prize money for the club to help fund travel to compete in national-level events coming up in the near future. Thanks to Deon Barret, Glen Mays, Jim Pawlicki, Cam Dauler, and Tom Derderian; and to Livvy Williams, Maura McDonald, Dara Zall, Megan Day, Payal Parekh, and Maria Sun. The same day, Ken Agabian, Mike Olivo, Carmen Danforth, Calvin Williams, and Bob Ward ran the Cape Ann 25K race in horrible, hot, and humid conditions. (Acushnet full results; Cape Ann full results)

The GBTC women's open team (named EuroMass) and mixed team (Big Macs and Fries T) won their divisions at the Lynn Woods 4x2.5M cross-country relay on August 25, and the men's open team (Greater Boston Cross) finished second over all. GBTC had six teams that placed 2, 9, 15, 18, 23, and 49 out of 54 teams. (full results)

The club is forming teams for the Lynn Woods 4x2.5M cross-country relay on August 25 and for the Lake Winnipesaukee Relay on September 25. The fall road and cross-country race schedules are begining to take shape.

At the Eastern Regional Championships on July 11, the men's team won the 4x100 relay with their fastest time of the season: 42.81. Errin Christian placed third in the triple jump with leaps totaling 14.40 meters, and Moeen Cheema placed sixth with 12.39 meters. Cheema placed fourth in the long jump with 6.02 meters. Dave Cahill placed fourth in the 400 meters with 51.12. Johann Jack placed fourth in the 100 meters with 10.86, and his brother Mario placed eighth with a best time in the prelims of 11.23. (full results)

The club had nine runners in Skyline Trail Race through the Blue Hills Reservation on July 11. Ben Nephew outran every runner in the race, and arrived at the finish line two and a half minutes ahead of anyone else, but he arrived from the wrong direction. He had followed a nonrace trail sign that retraced the starting mile, causing him to run a longer course, still won, was initially disqualified, and then reinstated. Whew. Racing is tough business.

At the New England Track Championships on June 19, the Greater Boston Track Club men tied for second place with CMS and the women tied for seventh place with CSU. David Callum, Dave Cahill, Mario Jack, and Johann Jack won the 4x100 relay in 43.04. Johann Jack won the 100 meter and 200 meters. Julie Spolidoro placed ninth in the 1500 meters with 4:35.35, and Dara Zall ran for the club in the 3000 meters, having recovered from recently being hit by a taxi. (full results)

The club placed 4th and 6th in the men's and women's open divisions at the New England 10K championship in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on June 12, with Deon Barrett finishing in 6th place. Deon Barrett, Jesse Darley, Arnold Seto, Jim Pawlicki, and Mark Reeder made up the men's team; and Eliane Abeguile, Christina Manolatou, Katie Carda, Sage Green, and Megan Day made up the women's team. There was even a good picture of the team on Cool Running. (full results)

The club had 26 performances at the third Twilight Meet on June 12, bringing the number of track performances posted this year by club members to over 400. In this meet, Dave Cahill, Josh Seeherman, and Mark Hickman all won their races in the 100, 200, and mile, respectively. (full results)

Joanna Veltri has been injured since the cross-country season, but she reappeared in competition for the first time at the Tufts 5K on May 2, and finished 14th her first time back. Running together with Sue Bergh, Sage Green, Christina Manolatou, Stephanie Tenuto, and Livvy Williams, this group may form a solid women's team in future competition.

See results and pictures of the Boston Marathon run on April 19. Deon Barrett and his marathon were the subject of a terrific article in The Standard Times, the newspaper serving his home town of New Bedford.

In the Penn Relays on Thursday, April 22, Julie Spolidoro placed 6th in the high school girls 3,000 meters with 10:01:22, and Ethan Crain placed 21st in the men's 5,000 meters with 14:32.29. On Friday, the men's distance medley relay team of Erik Spayde, Ben Pease, Dave Cahill, and Ethan Crain placed 4th with 10:10.18. On Saturday, the men's 4x400 relay team of Terry O'Neill, Sean Ballou, Dave Cahill, Mike Leding placed 4th with 3:26.83 in the "B" flight of this event.

The club began the outdoor track season with strong performances at the Snowflake Classic at Tufts University on April 3, including first or second place finishes in many events. Be sure to see pictures and results from that meet. While you are looking around, take a look at a nice picture of Bill Rodgers and the team taken at the Boston College athletic center.

Hugh Jessup is making travel arrangements for Manny Pino to come to Boston to run the marathon this month. Manny is the program director for Wings of America, a group that promotes running among young Native Americans, and he will be speaking about his work around Boston while he is here.

Jesse Darley nearly won the Law Enforcement Half Marathon, the USATF New England half marathon championship held in Melrose on March 14. Be sure to see the photos from this race. Jesse had the lead at mile 13, shadowed closely by Jack Dwyer (CMS), Rusty Snow (CMS), and Pete Hammer (BRC). Jesse kicked, but so did the shadows. After over an hour of racing, the four runners sprinted in the proximity of elbows. Dwyer, Hammer, and Snow nailed Jesse on the back stretch. All four runners sprinted together in the final 100 meters on the high school track in front of stands filled with cheering people and a blaring PA system. It looked and sounded like an Olympic final. With Jesse's 1:07:26 finish, the men's team placed third with Deon Barrett (1:10:00), Arnold Seto (1:11:14), Jim Pawlicki (1:13:11), and Mark Reeder (1:13:18) rounding out the top five. The female masters team finished seventh with Jean Smith (1:48:02), Dotty Fine (1:52:09), and Pam Chang (1:59:34); the female open team finished ninth with Christina Manolatou (1:28:09), Sage Green (1:30:28), and Rania Abouhamad (1:37:43); and the male masters team finished fifteenth with Moulay Essakalli (1:30:07), Bill Turner (1:30:30), Bill Nilson (1:32:08), Colum Creed (1:40:33), and Frank Monkiewicz (1:55:53). See the full results.

Jesse Darley won the New England Grand Prix ten mile championship in 51:35, beating the BAA's Chris McGill by a second, at the Jones-Town and Country ten-miler in Amherst, Massachusetts, on February 28. The men's team placed fifth overall, with Arnold Seto, Deon Barrett, John Blouin, and Gregory Putnam rounding out the top five finishes for the club. Christina Manolatou, Belinda Crago, and Cynthia Hastings were the club's top three women. Be sure to see the full results and a good article about the race. The club rode in style in a team bus to the big race. This might be the beginning of a new tradition.

Jon Berit periodically updates the Track and Field Grand Prix scores. In the future, you can see this current standings by clicking on race results on the left.

At the New England Limited meet at Boston University on February 21, the club neared the end of a great indoor season with great performances, including winning the men's USATF New England team title for the second year in a row. High-schooler Julie Spolidoro topped the club list with a 5:06 mile to win the open women's mile. She does not run track for her high school, but her time would have come close to winning the all-state high school meet. Christine Manolatou ran 5:40 in only the second mile race of her life, and Maria Sun ran her personal best of 5:59. In the men's mile, Ethan Crain and Eric Spayde ran razor close at the finish line to register 4:18.68 and 4:18.80 to top the club list. John Blouin ran razor close, too, with 4:24.00, and Ben Pease a close shave 0.88 behind him. Mike Decoste ran 4:50.11, Coach Tom Derderian missed his goal of sub-5:00 by 01.84, and Brad Stayton ran 5:20.25. Laura Mahoney sprinted 200 meters in 28.07. Ted Bowen ran 2:09.12 in the 800 with new member Brad Stayton in 2:24.07. In the much anticipated 3000 meter attack on 9:00, Arnold Seto dipped under the standard with an 8:57.14, Jim Reardon ran a season best of 9:01.92, and Jim Pawlicki demonstrated that he is back to full health with a 9:11.55.

GBTC won the USATF New England men's indoor track championship for the second year in a row at the Alden Invitational at Brown University on February 7 (see men's and women's results). Deon Barrett won the 5,000 meter race, and Jim Pawlicki took fourth. Jim Reardon took fourth in the 3,000 meter standing overall by winning the unseeded section with a faster time than all but four runners in the afternoon seeded section, in which Mark Reeder took second place. The distance medley team won their race with legs of 1200 by John Blouin, 400 by Terry O'Neill, 800 by Ben Pease, and mile by Mark Reeder. The women's distance medley team of Christina Manolatou, Laura Mahoney, Maria Sun, and Livvy Williams placed first among the women's open teams, but behind Holy Cross. Moeen Cheema placeing third in the triple jump, but first open, and Brian Woodbury jumped a personal best in the long jump with 21'4". New member Sean Ballou ran 400 meters in 52.72. Christina Manolatou ran her first mile track race in 5:37.74. Julie Spolidoro ran 3,000 meters in 10:27:33 to place first New England open runner in second place behind a New York woman. Maria Sun ran her second 800 meters of the day in the open 800 posting a 2:41.86. The relay team of Mike Leding, Sean Ballou, Terry O'Neill, and Jim Reardon ran a respectable relay in the thick of things. The 4x800 relay team of distance runners Barrett, Pawlicki, Reardon, and Blouin stood by to race, but the club had wrapped up the win by then, so they just warmed down.

The club's own Jesse Darley won the Stew Chase 15K in 50:22 on January 30, actually tying for first place with John Barbour, a recent USATF New England masters champion and the Greater Lowell Road Runners head coach. Other top finishers from the club include Jim Pawlicki (fifth), Jim Reardon (sixth), and Rob Macdonald (ninth). Be sure to see the full results, including a good picture of the two winners.

At the BU Terrier Classic on January 31, the club began its drive to put together a team for the distance medley at the USATF National Indoor Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 26-27. The distance medley is a relay race consisting of 1200, 400, 800, and 1600 meter legs. The qualifying standards are very strict. A men's team would need 10:10 to qualify, which would require times like 3:15, 0:50, 1:55, and 4:10, which isn't easy. At the Terrier Classic, Erik Spayde, Dave Cahill, Ben Pease, and John Blouin ran 1200, 400, 800, and 1600 meters in 3:09, 49.78, 1:55, and 4:46 for a time of 10:21. Just eleven seconds to go! Ethan Crain, our original miler on the team, has a 4:12 within his grasp, but developed a hamstring problem. John Blouin, our back-up miler, had run 4:27 in the mile just before his heroic 4:26 mile in the relay the next day. With a healthy Ethan or a fresh John, those eleven seconds could melt away. We will have one more shot on February 13 at the BU Saint Valentine's Invitational. Watch this space.

Russ Miller has announced the rules for the club's road race Grand Prix competition this season. As the road race season progresses, you can see the current standings by clicking on "our races" on the left of this page and then clicking on "road race season."

1998

The club started the indoor track season with strong performances at the Harvard Invitational on December 12, our masters sprinters did well up at the Dartmouth Relays on January 9, club members put in almost 50 performances at the GBTC Invitational on January 24, and our elite runners ran at the BU Terrier Classic on January 30. In addition, club members have put in almost 95 performances in the first six meets in the Boston University developmental indoor track series, probably more than any other club in the region. The series is becoming the Fresh Pond of indoor track: for a ten-dollar entrance fee, it consists of an open 3000 meter race at 10am and an open mile race at 11am each Saturday morning at the old armory on the BU campus. Be sure to see the results posted on our indoor track page hanging off our race page, and read an amusing article about the series from Cool Running.

The club held its annual holiday party at the Muddy Charles Pub on December 13. Nearly seventy people attended the party. The food was Cajun cuisine provided by Dixie Kitchen, and the desserts were sweet cuisine provided by club members. The club receives ten numbers for the Boston Marathon each year, and one of the highlights of the annual party is the raffle awarding these numbers to club members. Seven numbers were awarded for club service to Melinda Casey, Moulay Essakalli, Chris Hussey, Hugh Jessup, Russ Miller, Frank Monkiewicz, and Sean Mullan. Three numbers were awarded in the raffle to Eric Deetz, Laurie Knapp, and Ken Ross. Good luck, runners! And thanks to Erin Cullinane and Melinda Casey for organizing another great party!

The club reappeared on the national scene for the first time in many years by competing in the USATF National Cross-Country Championships in Orlando, Florida, on December 6. Be sure to see the pictures from this hot and humid race. The men's team finished in 19th place thanks to terrific runs by Ethan Crain (89th place), Jesse Darley (93), Deon Barrett (120), Mark Reeder (150), John Blouin (155), Ben Nephew (161), and Jim Pawlicki (177). The women's team was also well-represented by great runs by Livvy Williams (74th place) and Tracey Timmins (84), but did not have enough members to appear in the official team standings. Coach Tom Derderian even ran in the master's race. Check out the full results for the men's race and the women's race.

GBTC men and women won the 1998 USATF New England Cross-Country Grand Prix by placing 4th and 6th in the New England Cross-Country Championships at Franklin Park on November 15. The top five men (Jesse Darley, Ethan Crain, Deon Barrett, Greg Putnam, and John Blouin) and top five women (Livvy Williams, Tracey Timmins, Shawna Nehiley, Sage Green, and Payal Parekh) in this regional championship qualified for support for travel to nationals on December 6. Be sure to see the pictures of the team striding toward victory.

The club is trying to put together teams for the distance medley at the USATF National Indoor Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 26-27. The distance medley is a relay race consisting of 1200, 400, 800, and 1600 meter legs. The qualifying standards are very strict. The men's team would need 10:10 to qualify, which would require times like 3:15, 0:50, 1:55, and 4:10. It won't be easy, but watch this space.

The USATF-NE has chosen seven road races for the 1999 Grand Prix at its selection meeting on November 2.

Sandy Miller has assumed responsibility for the on-line club store, recently implemented as a public service to the club by Hunt Lacascia. Jennifer Rapaport deserves a round of thanks from us all for handling club merchandise so efficiently for so long, and Sandy also for assuming this job on top of her job on the board.

The club hosted the Noble & Greenough 5K cross-country race on November 1. Be sure to see the results of this race. The club's team of Shawna Nehiley, Payal Parekh, and Cynthia Hastings won this women's Grand Prix event. On the same day, the club's team of Jesse Darley, Ben Nephew, Deon Barrett, Jim Pawlicki, and Erik Spayde traveled north to Medford to place a close second to Greater Lowell at the men's Grand Prix event.

In the great Boston Mayor's Cup cross-country race in Franklin Park on October 25, the club's men's team moved from 17th in 1996 to 12th in 1997 to 7th in 1998, and the women's team moved from no team in 1996 to 9th in 1997 to 7th in 1998. The club was represented by 17 men and 10 women in this prestigious race. Be sure to see the full results.

Lori Tobin designs custom running and fitness clothing, and she visited the track on October 20 to show off her collection of winter running clothing made from synthetic fleece from the Malden Mills. Her company's catalog is on-line.

Club members Jim O'Brien and Joanna Veltri were elected to new positions in USATF-New England, the governing body for running events in New England, at its annual meeting on September 21. Jim was elected treasurer and Joanna was elected an athlete representative on the board of governors who will also represent New England at the USATF national convention in December.

As of Thanksgiving, preparation continues for the USATF National Cross-Country Championships in Orlando, Florida, on December 6. Coach Tom Derderian says, "I am excited about the GBTC team going to nationals. The boyz ran a couple of awesome workouts this week. They ran ten times a mile on the Franklin Park course and some uneven paced fast 800s on the MIT indoor track. I am impressed. After 15 years, GBTC is back on the national scene. The men's team will be Deon Barrett, John Blouin, Ethan Crain, Jesse Darley, Ben Nephew, Jim Pawlikci, and Mark Reeder. The women's team will be Tracey Timmins and Livvy Williams. Tracey looked terrific in her interval miles at MIT. Other New England teams in Orlando will be CMS, BAA, BRC, and Lowell."

GBTC men and women won the 1998 USATF New England Cross-Country Grand Prix by placing 4th and 6th in the New England Cross-Country Championships at Franklin Park on November 15. The series started on September 27 at the Governor Dummer 5K and ended with this regional championship. The top five men (Jesse Darley, Ethan Crain, Deon Barret, Greg Putnam, and John Blouin) and top five women (Livvy Williams, Tracey Timmons, Shawna Nehiley, Sage Green, and Payal Parekh) in today's regional championship qualify for support for travel to the Nationals in Orlando, Florida, on December 6. See pictures of these men and women striding toward victory.

The club elected a new board of directors at its annual meeting on October 13. The new board is Gary Snyder (President), Bruce Bond (Vice President), Jim O'Brien (Treasurer), Melinda Casey (Clerk), Doug Burdi, Erin Cullinane, Jesse Darley, Moulay Essakalli, Sandy Miller, and Terry O'Neill. Thanks to the old and the new boards for running a great club.

Greater Boston finished in fourth place and in the money at the Tufts 10K on October 12, a Boston running tradition second only to the Boston Marathon, and serving this year as the USATF women's 10K national championship. Jennifer Rapaport, Livvy Williams, and Dara Zall finished in 41st, 52nd, and 53rd places for a combined time of 1:14:21. The top three teams were BAA with 1:03:53, CMS with 1:10:25, and Whirlaway with 1:12:39. The full results tell the story of several personal records being set by club members.

The club store is now on-line. This on-line store was implemented as a public service to the club by Hunt Lacascia.

See photos and results from the cross-country meet at the Governor Dummer Academy on September 27. See the results of the USATF-NE Developmental 5K cross-country races that the club ran in Franklin Park on a soggy October 11 and on a fine fall October 18 in preparation for the Boston Mayor's Cup on October 25.

The club fielded four teams at the Lake Winnipesaukee Relay on September 19, so check out the photos and results from this great club tradition.

For the second year in a row, the men's and women's open teams have won the Lynn Woods Relay held on August 26. The men's team (Jesse Darley, Deon Barrett, Jim Reardon, and John Blouin) finished in 53:57 and the women's team (Susan Wiseman, Sue Bergh, Erin Cullinane, and Kerry O'Donovan) finished in 73:31. Both teams finished this 4x2.5 mile relay nearly three minutes ahead of the second place teams! Other club teams finished fifth, tenth, and eleventh in the men's open division and fourth and tenth in the coed division.

See photos and results of the GBTC Heart & Sole 5K road race run on Thursday, August 13, at 7pm.