Columbus Day Weekend featured three big running events in the Boston area standing out among the the usual fare of local road and cross-country races.
New England XC Championships
On Saturday, Franklin Park hosted the Collegiate New England Championships on a day that felt more like summer than fall. In all, almost 1200 runners competed in the varsity and sub-varsity races. It was fun to see so many former Mass. high school stars in the race, and, in addition, there were quite a few alumni from Bay State league schools. I apologize in advance for missing any BSL runners, but here is a list of names that I recognized from the results:
Women's 5K:
Rebecca White 18:04 (Natick '09)
Amanda Waldron 19:09 (Walpole '10)
Jessica Kaliski 19:27 (Wellesley '11)
Anna Lukes 19:55 (Wellesley '08)
Jill Corcoran 20:15 (Weymouth '11)
Marlis Gnirke 20:47 (Wellesley '08)
Maria Grandoni 21:17 (Framingham '11)
Men's 8K:
Stephen Sollowin 26:15 (Weymouth '11)
Sam Miller 26:32 (Needham '08)
Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot 26:59 (Brookline '07)
Romey Sklar 27:22 (Brookline '11)
Seb Putzeys 27:25 (Newton North '08)
Chris Mercurio 27:29 (Brookline '08)
BAA Half-Marathon
From the time the last race was over on Saturday, crews at Franklin Park began setting up the start/finish area for the BAA half marathon to be held the next day.
The BAA half has become one of the most popular races on the New England calendar with over 5000 entrants. The top spots went to Ethiopia's Al Abdosh (1:03:36), Kenya's and Liberty University grad Sam Chelanga (1:03:41), and a several other Kenyan runners. Top American was Boston College grad and Mass. native Tim Ritchie, who finished 7th in (1:05:29).
I looked for BSL alums in the results but didn't recognize any names.
Tufts 10K
On Columbus Day Monday, 6500 women and girls took the starting line for the 35th annual Tufts 10K for women.
Janet Cherobon-Bawcom won the race in 32:47, a day after winning the BAA Half in 1:11:58. That's quite a double!
There were at least two BSL alumnae in the race, although one of them was running under an assumed name. Here are the two I recognized. Anyone know of any other BSL athletes who raced?
Brielle Chabot, 37:02 (Wellesley '07)
Joni Waldron, 50:01 (NNHS '02)
(A special shout-out to Joni who ran her first official 10K on limited training and still managed 8:00 miles and a fierce kick at the end.)
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Congratulations, Joni!
Remember last year when Joan Samuelson finished 2nd in her age group in the 10K -- the day after whomping her nearest competitor by half an hour in the Chicago Marathon?
Chris Dooley 27:01 (Weymouth '10)
Kristen Mahoney 19:24 (Weymouth '08)
Some BSC alums out at Westfield Saturday too but i am too lazy to look it up.
Congrats to Tim Ritchie last year i believe he ran 1:10 at that race. I know he was looking for the olympic trials qualifier of under 1:05 but on a hot day and a reasonably difficult course that is a heck of a time.
Also good to see Brielle back out there racing and getting in shape. I have seen her training a bit and I am glad to see her racing in addition to training
missed a couple...
Ben Goula 30:21 (Walpole '10)
Jeff Beling 31:21 (Framingham '09)
I saw Kristen's time, she was in the Sub-V race, and ran I think the 3rd fastest time for Stonehill on the day. She's been running fairly consistently well since sophomore year, but she had a little bit of a rough start to this fall. Glad to see her fighting back.
Dooley's time I missed. This is his first XC season, which I think he started running somewhat reluctantly, but that would seem to indicate a great fit for him. He needs to get stronger on the track- I think he'll be a great 1500 guy eventually.
Kristen is coming back from injury and should be ready for the championship season in a couple of weeks.
And as Chris' personal summer coach/ training partner I think he owes me most of his success this fall. I know he is very happy with his season this fall. He knew he was not going to be great but he just wanted to see some improvement in his endurance and he told me his goal was "around 27". So I am very happy for him and I expect a sub 4 1500 this year.
Well, there's only one person who fits that description, so it's good to hear from you, sort of.
I hope Kristen had a little added motivation being in the sub-varsity race, I'm positive Steve did. I know when I was coaching her, she could respond when a fire was lit under her, and it sounds like that might have happened. I wouldn't be shocked if she runs #1 for them by the last few meets.
not a race around here but wisconsin invite today the collins brothers ran:
11 Ryan Collins SR Wisco 8:56 15:01 23:45.5 4:47
59 Shayne Collins FR UCLA 9:10 15:24 24:34.4 4:57
Great race from shayne he was the 3rd freshman i believe and an incredibly deep field. It did seem to be a fast course but regardless he beat some studs including the chosen one verzbicas and the rosa twins.
Finch and I raced at the CMU home invite... a little over 2 weeks til UAAs! (http://www.cmu.edu/athletics/sports/mxc/statdata/2011/cmuinvite.htm)
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