Grand Prix 2016 Wrap-Up

Colin on the way to his PR.

By Glenn Stewart and Matt Story

The Manchester Marathon on November 2nd was the final stop on the USATF-NE LDR Grand Prix.  The men’s team took 6^th in the Open division – with no open runners – all were Masters and above.  They took 3^rd in the Masters and Senior division.  The ladies grabbed 7^th in Open – with only Michelle Martin being a true Open runner -- and 6^th in the Masters division.  Jim Garcia beat Whirlaway (YAY!) to win the 55-59 division.  Bill Dumont was 4^th 11 mins later.  The energizer bunny known as Tom Peters won the 60-64 division (despite being 64).  Colin Loghin notched a PR and 2^nd in the 40-44 division.  Ken Cain, also a PR, took 4^th in the 45-49 division, followed 14s later by Tom Grenier.

Results can be found here.

For the overall series, the Open Men raced to 9^th in the final standings.  Masters men were 4^th, Men’s Seniors were 3^rd, and the Veteran Men went undefeated to take their division.  The Ladies Open team was also 9^th and the Masters and Seniors women were 5^th.  Mark Reeder was 2^nd in the 55-59 division, despite missing 3 of the 7 races – he won two of the 4 he raced and was 2^nd in another.  Ken Goodin tied for 1^st in the 60-64 division – he passed on the marathon to help us at the NE XC Championship – and gave up 9 points and his lead in the division.  On the other hand – Ken helped us win at the NE XC Championship that day. John Barbour took 4^th in the 60-64 division even though he only ran 3 races – of course he won them all.

Congratulations to the 11 GLRR Iron Runners who completed all seven races: Joseph Anderson, Chris Basha, Kim Chadwell, Bill Dumont, Fil Faria, Kerri Haskins, Melanie Hire, Jill Lohmeier, Joe Loureiro, Bryan Riley, and Matt Shapiro.

USATF results are here.