Archive for August 26, 2008
USATF President Bill Roe to TrackCEO: Drop dead
The following note, posted with extreme prejudice, is part of an email exchange over the issue of delayed meet results from the national masters weight pentathlon championships. Not a word has been changed in this dyspeptic missive, sent with extreme ignorance, by Bill Roe of Bellingham, Washington, the elected president of USA Track & Field. […]
August 26, 2008
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Gloria Krug sets American record in weight pentathlon
USATF has posted results for Saturday’s National Masters Weight Pentathlon Championships. Click here for the page. In it we learn that Gloria Krug, 77, of the Philadelphia Masters TC scored 3,877 points — which smashes the listed American age-group record of 3,573 by Bernice Holland at 2003 Puerto Rico worlds. Before they went up sometime […]
August 26, 2008
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Pity masters in People’s Republic: Starved for meets
The People’s Republic of China used to be called Red China. And deservedly so. They should be red-faced with shame over how they treat masters track! With 1.3 billion people and a booming economy, you’d expect their masters track movement to be going gangbusters. But nope. How many masters meets does the PRC hold every […]
August 26, 2008
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