Pak Attacks Track

Tufts University, Medford, MA March 31,2007—GBTC's 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.
Other club performances below.

800
19 Cahill, David GBTC    2:04.37

10,000
4 Pak, Junyong   GBTC    32:49.68 
5 Tyson, John    GBTC    32:57.49 

110 hurdes
15 Mbacke, Thierno GBTC   16.78

Javelin
12 Racine, Jeremy  GBTC 46.53m 152-08

800
4 O'Brien, Sara  GBTC  2:23.57
15 Clark, Deanna GBTC  2:34.55

Discus
4 Connor, Stacey GBTC   39.14m 128-05

Hammer
6 Baker, Anne    GBTC   43.78m 143-08

Full Results here

Army Attacks Emily

Upton, MA March 31, 2007 — GBTC's Emily Raymond wanted a low-key race to "tune-up" for the Boston Marathon. She planned to run marathon pace of 6:21 for the first 10 km then run faster for the last 5 km. But moments after the starting shout a wire of a runner, lavishly tattooed and with a snappy pony tail, Trisha Stavinoha of the Army stationed at Natick labs made a race of it. Raymond abandoned her plan and a real race began. The tattoos covered the Army runner's shoulders and back. She had run for the Army team in the Boulder, CO nationals and trained on a treadmill in an altitude chamber in preparation. Emily wore her hair bound in her trademark colored elastics while she hid behind turquoise rimmed sunglasses. The Blackstone River Valley farms had never seen such a sight. Raymond eked out the win on this sun-blazed, crisp early spring day on a quite hilly course.

11(overall) Emily Raymond 25 Greater Boston 56:28:00 6:03
18       Trisha Stavinoha 30           ARMY 57:31:00 6:10
221 finishers

GBTC Runners to Attack Upton and Cohasset roads

Hot off her 10,000 meter personal record Emily Raymond may challenge both the men's and women's fields in the Upton, MA 15 km on Saturday March 31 on a hilly rural course one town west of where her marathon will start on Patriots Day. Scientists associate a time like Raymond's PR of just under 35 minutes with a 53 minute 15 km. Last year Matt Hyde won the Upton race in a few seconds under 53 minutes. It has happened, but rarely, that a woman has won an open road race. She won the women's last year in 60+ minutes.

On Sunday, April 1, in Cohasset, MA on the south shore Kit Wells and Katie Fobert will race to win. Last year Wells took second in 33:12 to finish just ahead of David Bedoya.

GBTC to Compete at Tufts Snowflake Meet

On March 31 in Medford, MA on the Tufts University Campus GBTC athletes plan to compete against many college teams in several events.
The first event of the day will be the men's 10,000 meter with David Bedoya, Junyong Pak, and John Tyson. Last year 32:58 won the race. Bedoyda is seeded at 31:50 and the other two GBTC runners at 33.
David Cahill and Maruis Jerome will run the 800 as will Sara O'Brien and Deana Clark.
Jeremy Racine is entered in the Javelin throw with a mark that would have place third last year.
Anne Baker has entered the hammer throw with a mark that would have taken third last year.
Stacey O'Conner also has entered the discus throw with a mark that would have been third last year.

Doshi Does Three States

GBTC's Megha Doshi started slowly in Kittery, ME in the Eastern Sates 20 miler. She picked up her pace and picked off runner after runner over the bridge into Portsmouth, NH, then along the winding ocean road where the stately mansions stare at the moods of the fickle North Atlantic. She flashed through Rye, NH where nobody could catch her as she whizzed past the garish amusements of Hampton Beach Casinos, trinket shops, salt water taffy demonstrations, sea food restaurents, lurid hotels, chintzy cottages, and water slides, she ran and on past the Great Boar's head and another bridge with a clear view of the Seabrook nuclear reactor and into Massachusetts where in Salisbury she waited twelve minutes for the next woman to finish. Doshi ran faster per mile than did the woman's winner of the concurrent half marathon. Doshi is ready to race at Boston along with GBTC's Emily Raymond, and Stu's 30 km winner Laura Hayden.

In this 20 miler GBTC's Kibrom Temelso, hot off his win in the 10 km in the Northeastern Spring Open meet yesterday, practiced his marathon pace in anticipation of the Boston Marathon. He ran gracefully demonstrating no ill effects from his 5:05 miles in the previous day's race. His Boston Marathon teammates, Woodward and Uchiki, show they are prepared for Boston.

This is a good race and an important preparation toward a good marathon. GBTC runners are ready.

Full results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/Mar25_Easter_set1.shtml

2 KIBROM TEMESLO BOSTON MA        1:55:43  5:48
4 LUCAS WOODWARD SOMERVILLE MA    1:57:11  5:52
7 TOMOAKI UCHIKI JAMAICA PLAIN MA 2:05:19  6:16
14 MEGAH DOSHI   MEDFORD MA       2:10:27  6:32
92 AIMEE SHEN    SOMERVILLE MA    2:34:20  7:43

507 finishers

Half marathon
6 Michael Moyles Cambridge MA     1:24:30  6:27
  (New GBTC member)
39 Tom Derderian Boston MA        1:41:50  7:47
184 finishers

New Club Record in 10k

At the Northeastern meet on March 24, Emily Raymond ran a personal best of 34:58 and took more than 30 seconds off the old GBTC record (set by Julie Spolidoro in 2000.) Emily won the race, and was followed by team-mates Lynn Johnson, Sloan Siegrist, Katie Famous, and Gretchen Chick.

In the men's race, Kibrom Temelso won in 31:34, closely followed by Avi Kramer second overall, and then came David Bedoya, Ted Breen, and Ryan Aschbrenner.

Jerome Mauris ran the 200 and 800, Theo Mbacke hurdled, Jason Hewitt chased steeples, and Stacey Connor threw disci.

Full results are posted here.

Spring Open BIG 10 km on Sat 3/24/07

GBTC's Emily Raymond heads the performance list of 20 women for the Northeastern University Spring Open track meet's 10 km on Saturday March 24 in Dedham, MA. Seven more GBTC women will join her. Her seed time is 35:00 and her personal best is 35:01. She is in the best marathon shape of her life as she prepares for an attempt at an Olympic trials qualifying at Boston. GBTC's Laura Hayden will be chasing her and pacing teammate Sloan Siegrist who has represented Guam in the Athens Olympics in the 1500. Siegrist will try to break the Guam national record of 37:01 and her own personal best of 37:17 set this race last year.

The men's race looks to be astoundingly exciting with the top eleven of thirty men submitting essentially the same seed time! Both races will be run concurrently so will be quite a sight to see with 50 runners on the track. GBTC's Ted Breen placed second in this race last year so has to be considered the favorite.

Start lists for the entire meet can be found here.

GBTC IS Powerful in Half Marathon

New Bedford, MA March 18, 2007—In the whaling city, the origin of Herman Melville's great American novel, Moby Dick, the Greater Boston Track Club men's team took second place in the open team division and the women took third. The half marathon race opened the 2007 USATF-NE Grand Prix road race circuit. Transplanted Chicagoan, Jeremy Borling, now a journalism grad student at Boston University, led the team with a 5th place finish.
Laura Hayden led the women's team with a 9th place finish. A total of 26 club members raced.
The club's top three men and top three women are entered in the Boston Marathon.
The next Grand Prix race will be over 10 kilometers in Groton, MA on April 29th
Club members will be racing on the track at the Northeastern outdoor meet on March 24 and in the Eastern States 20 miler on March 25 running from Maine to Massachusetts.


30th New Bedford Half Marathon
New Bedford, MA, March 18, 2007
GBTC results

Bay State Race Services

Place No.   Name            Age Div/Tot  Div  Club     Finish   Pace 

  1     4 ALENE RETA         25   1/106  M2529 WSX    1:05:08#  4:59
  5  1973 JEREMY BORLING     26   3/106  M2529 GBTC   1:08:51   5:16
 10     Kibrom  TEMELSO      31   4/121  M3034 GBTC   1:10:14   5:22
 11  2159 DAVID BEDOYA       30   5/121  M3034 GBTC   1:10:20   5:22
 22  1463 AVI KRAMER         25   7/106  M2529 GBTC   1:11:41   5:29
 36  2016 KIT WELLS          30  11/121  M3034 GBTC   1:13:54   5:39
 40  2008 RYAN ASCHBRENNER   29  11/106  M2529 GBTC   1:14:26   5:41
 49  2164 JUNYONG PAK        29  13/106  M2529 GBTC   1:15:14   5:45
 61  2158 LUCAS WOODWARD     23  11/60   M1924 GBTC   1:16:06   5:49
 86  1581 TOMOAKI UCHIKI     33  17/121  M3034 GBTC   1:18:00   5:57
 88  1371 BRUCE DAVIE        43  18/190  M4044 GBTC   1:18:03   5:58
118  1499 BRODIE MILES       33  23/121  M3034 GBTC   1:20:36   6:09
136  1897 LAURA HAYDEN       26   4/128  F2529 GBTC   1:21:50   6:15
140  2165 MAX WHITE          23   14/60  M1924 GBTC   1:22:03   6:16
152  2094 BRIAN HARE         42  29/190  M4044 GBTC   1:23:04   6:21
184  1871 LYNN JOHNSON       33   7/112  F3034 GBTC   1:24:43   6:28
185  2154 MEGAH DOSHI        25   7/128  F2529 GBTC   1:24:44   6:28
269  1972 AUDREY GIESLER     25  14/128  F2529 GBTC   1:28:13   6:44
293  1565 BRUCE BOND         55   3/98   M5559 GBTC   1:29:11   6:49
353  2051 KATHRYN FOBERT     30  13/112  F3034 GBTC   1:31:46   7:00
414  1349 DAVID BURGESS      45  57/176  M4549 GBTC   1:34:37   7:13
25   1943 DENNIS FISHER      34  51/121  M3034 GBTC   1:35:15   7:16
448  1944 TOM WHITNEY        55  13/98   M5559 GBTC   1:35:58   7:20
638   344 BRIAN WALSH        40  90/190  M4044 GBTC   1:42:37   7:50
809  1300 KEN AGABIAN        43 110/190  M4044 GBTC   1:47:23   8:12
870   472 NORM ROBBIE        43 119/190  M4044 GBTC   1:49:28   8:21
1777  1088 HUBERT JESSUP     60  47/48   M6064 GBTC   2:36:29  11:57
1825 finishers

New Bedford Half Marathon

Some photos from today's New Bedford race have been posted here.
Still awaiting official results, but Jeremy Borling led the men's team, finishing 5th in 1:08:50ish while Laura Hayden was GBTC's first woman in 1:21 and change.

New Bedford: GBTC to Send Powerful Teams

GBTC will send powerful teams to the 2007 USATF-NE Grand Prix season opener in New Bedford, MA on 3/18. Last year GBTC women placed 4th and men 7th, but both teams will bring much fitter and faster runners. Audrey Giesler who ran a 2:50 marathon in Chicago last year and sub-three hour marathoner Mega Doshi will join last year's women's team leader, Laura Hayden, who is hot off her win in the 30 kilometer on 3/4. All three can post times faster than the GBTC top runner of last year so the team will challenge last year's BAA women's team.
The GBTC men's team has five runners fast enough to match or exceed last year's team leader David Bedoya's 1:11. Jeremy Borling, Avi Kramer, Kibrom Temeslso, and Ryan Aschbrenner so they too have a good chance to outscore all New England teams except perhaps the powerful BAA.

Claddagh Pub Classic

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).

Stu's and North Shore 30k

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).

Amherst 10 miler

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.

Fresh Pond

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.