Archive for March 3, 2014

Boston meet produces indoor WRs in M35 and M40 4×800 relays

Masters relay records outside worlds and Penn are rare. But two WRs at one meet? That’s the case at the Boston University Last Chance Meet on Sunday. An M40 team of Ed Winslow, Chris Blondin, Mark Williams and Nicholas Berra clocked 7:49.90 to crush the listed indoor world 4×8 record of 7:58.12 set a year […]

March 3, 2014   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

40 years a master: The Oscar for athletic longevity goes to Kiwi

My apologies for the headline. I just finished watching the Academy Awards. But I couldn’t help but cheer a news nibble from Down Under. The Southland Times of New Zealand reports: “Seventy nine-year-old Iris Bishop has competed at all 40 editions of the New Zealand Masters Track and Field Championships. She and her daughter Janice […]

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  Ken has followed track as an athlete, writer and web-master since the late 1960s, and saw most sessions of track and field at the 1984 Los Angeles and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He also attended the 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Trials, the last three as a blogger and Patch correspondent. [More...]
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