Vermont City

19th KeyBank Vermont City Marathon Results
Burlington, VT, May 27, 2007

Individual Marathon
Place Half Nettime Pace Name Age G Bib#
29 1:23:08 2:46:07 6:21 Chris Smith 33 M 3545
216 1:29:26 3:18:00 7:34 John Fialkovich 26 M 3072
397 1:43:23 3:29:19 7:59 Thomas Whitney 55 M 3412
1488 2:04:44 4:14:47 9:44 William Boykin-Morris 27 M 262
2506 finishers

Marathon Relay; Two Person Mixed Relay
Place Half Nettime Pace Team Race#
12 1:51:28 3:16:18 7:30 Wendy/ William Newsham 6259
159 finishers

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Boston High Performance Track series begins

A small but serious contingent of GBTC runners turned out on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend to take part in the first of three meets at Bentley College in the Boston High Performance series. Ted Breen opened his season with a 4:08.98 for 1500m to win the open race. 400m specialist Dave Cahill went for some overdistance work in the 800 and took second in his race in 2:01.93. Allison McCabe ran in the elite 1500m, taking 6th place in 4:39.93, while Andy Colon ran 4:04.21 in the men's elite race.

Full GBTC results:

Women
200
1 christin kloiber    27.41
1500
6 Allison McCabe    4:39.93

Men
3000
2 Bruce Davie       9:32.68
4 Brian Hare       10:33.91
1500
1 Edward Breen      4:08.98
2 TJ Niles          4:21.67
3 Ryan Aschbrenner  4:27.03
800
2 David Cahill      2:01.93
4 Jim Watts         2:04.49
7 Pete Warrington   2:11.63
1500 (elite)
7 Andrew Colon      4:04.21

A few photos can be found here

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GBTC Men win Grand Prix 12 km

photo of Gretchen Chick at Westford by Jim Rhoades

I picked up Kibrom Temelso and teammates TJ Niles and Max White at the emergency room entrance to the Chidren's Hospital in Boston after Kibrom's all night shift. I had committed to getting him to the race on time and other teammates promised to see that he tied his result-transponder chip to his shoe. As coach I had told Kibrom in the Boston Marathon to run with teammates Jeremy Borling and David Bedoya, but a blast of optimism had propelled him to run with the elite chase pack. He never finished. At the Bedford 12km, chastened and perhaps a little sleepy, he stuck like velcro to Jeremy. Avi Kramer, recently of Vassar College, ran hesitantly behind three leading runners. All the GBTC top six men ran in the top twenty. They wanted to beat the Central Mass Striders and the GCS-Triad teams that had beaten them in the 5 km. They knew they were a better, longer distance team than a 5 km team. In the misty rain over the hilly course CMS put three men in the top ten, matching GBTC, but only four in the top twenty. GBTC won.

Andrew Wommack and Dylan Morris ran their first races for the club.

Before the women's race Emily Raymond deftly banded tufts of her hair in colored elastics. Why she does this before every race, no one knows. But there might be some magic to it. Emily outkicked Merrimack Valley Striders' Molly Taber to win the women's open race. But Taber's teammates followed too closely and defeated the GBTC team. Gretchen Chick ran the best road race of her life to take second place for the club with Audrey Giesler following in the three-runner scoring used for the women's race.

Tara Vance ran her first race for the club.


GBTC open men 1st
GBTC open women 2nd
GBTC masters men 10th
full:http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/nh/May19_33rdBe_set1.shtml
Bedford, NH
2007 USATF-NE 12K Championship
May 19, 2007
GBTC only
3 38:31 Avi Kramer
6 38:51 Kibrom Temelso
7 38:54 Jeremy Borling
14 39:59 Edward Breen
15 40:07 David Bedoya
20 40:19 Tj Niles
26 40:55 Junyong Pak
35 41:34 Andrew Wommack
43 42:30 Sarad Tomlinson
53 42:53 Bruce Davie
62 43:41 Emily Raymond
68 44:09 Dylan Morris
78 45:00 Brian Hare
88 45:36 Max White
101 46:21 Bill Newsham
104 46:41 Gretchen Chick
106 46:51 Audrey Giesler
111 46:58 Megha Doshi
121 47:43 Katie Famous
125 47:56 Bruce Bond
161 49:43 Kathryn Fobert
162 49:45 Tara Vance
211 51:43 Tom Derderian
235 53:02 Christy Bonstelle
253 54:04 Ken Agabian
285 56:29 Allison Curran
343 1:00:18 Norm Robbie
403 1:06:44 Mithu Lahiri
459 finishers

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GBTC's Best Teams of the Modern Era

PHOTO:Audrey Giesler at Westford (by Jim Rhoades)

"These may be the best GBTC teams of the modern era." says GBTC coach Tom Derderian of the teams the club is sending to the New England Grand Prix # 4 in Bedford, NH 12 km road race. Both GBTC teams score second in the seven-race series. The men's team is only a single point behind the Central Mass Striders and tied with the GCS-Triad team out of Southern New Hampshire but the women's team is tied with Whirlaway six points behind the Merrimack Valley Striders.

The GBTC team leader at the Groton 10km on April 29th, Avi Kramer, who finished second in the race will team up with 5 km leader Jeremy Borling who lead the team at 5 km. Kibrom Temelso who has not run a Grand Prix race since the first one at New Bedford in the half marathon will join them. Brennan Bonner, tip top marathon man, David Bedoya, Ted Breen, and Junyong Pak is a 12 km team that has the stuff to win and launch into the summer Grand Prix hiatus in first place.

The GBTC women's team with Emily Raymond back in action since the marathon, Audrey Giesler, Gretchen Chick, Megah Doshi, and Katies Famous and Fobert and possibly Lynn Johnson will run very close to the Merrimack Valley girls. Raymond and Giesler may well take the first two positions in the race.

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GBTC in Aggressive 5km Grand Prix

Today twenty-six GBTC runners raced in the year's third USATFNE Grand Prix road race. Boston University grad student Jeremy Borling from Chicago, racing for the first time since his 2:27 Boston Marathon, led the team to a sixth place finish in perhaps the most hotly contested Grand Prix men's open team race ever. A pack of 30 men ran through the mile together in 4:45 to 5:00. Only one or two seconds per man defined the differences in the order of team placings. The GBTC men had led the GP series points going into the race but came out in a tie for second place a mere point behind the Central Mass Striders. David Bedoya from Spain came back from leading the GBTC team to fourth in the Boston Marathon with his 2:26 to run third for the team seconds behind Junyong Pak a graduate of Tulane.
Elementary school teacher Allison McCabe from University of Connecticut led the GBTC open women's team to second place by taking third overall in the women's race. Boston grad student Laura Hayden, University of Michigan, and Audrey Giesler, University of Indiana, followed McCabe. All the women had a tough time threading their way through the furiously racing herd of men of all ages and shapes. The GBTC women's team is now also tied for second place in the GP point series.
The next GP race is the Bedford, NH 12 km on May 19th.
8th Westford Road Race
Westford, MA, May 6, 2007
http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ma/May6_8thWes_set1.shtml



All GBTC Finishers

13 JEREMY BORLING 15:35
26 JUNYONG PAK 15:49
29 DAVID BEDOYA 15:51
34 JOHN TYSON 16:01
38 MIKE PIECK 16:10
45 TJ NILES 16:22
49 RYAN ASCHBRENNER 16:26
71 BRAD KOZEL 17:00
79 BRUCE DAVIE 17:15
102 ALLISON MCCABE 17:51
122 BRIAN HARE 18:20
132 LAURA HAYDEN 18:33
135 BILL NEWSHAM 18:38
146 AUDREY GIESLER 18:48
159 MEGHA DOSHI 19:04
160 DAVID BURGESS 19:05
166 BRUCE BOND 19:10
169 GRETCHEN CHICK 19:12
214 KATIE FOBERT 20:06
227 TOM DERDERIAN 20:19
244 CHRISTY BONSTELLE 20:36
265 HEATHER AUDET 21:02
328 NORM ROBBIE 22:58
340 KENNETH AGABIAN 23:23
360 WENDY NEWSHAM 24:03
435 MITHU LAHIRI 26:17
436 MICHAEL OLIVO 26:19
613 finishers

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Greater Boston Men to Defend Grand Prix Lead

The Greater Boston Track Club men's road race team is now in first place in the New England Grand Prix series after two in the seven race series. The GBTC team is three points ahead of the Central Mass Striders and the newly conglomerated GCS-Triad team going into May 6th's 5 km in Westford, MA. The GBTC team has the addition of two marathoners, Jeremy Borling and Kibrom Temelso who did not run on last week's team at Groton. The men placed 7th last year in the GP 5 km but now have a much stronger team.

The GBTC open women's team is running in third place in the GP, one point behind the Whirlaway Racing Team and five points behind the Merrimak Valley Striders. This 5 km team will be bolstered by the return of marathoner Megha Doshi and Audrey Giesler. The women's team placed second last year in the GP 5km.

The fourth Grand Prix race is May 19th at 12 km in Bedford, NH before a long gap until the next GP race in September.

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