Larry Barnum didn’t make a comeback at Budapest worlds (as I’ve suggested), since he’s never been away. But he certainly overcame a lot to win the M70 400 by nearly 3.5 seconds. Recently, National Masters News columnist Cathy Utzschneider shared
I can’t get over the photos. They show Jim Chinn, Joy Upshaw and other speedsters with such a tremendous lean. Is that the key to their quickness — or a symptom? In any case, last Saturday’s Southern California Striders Meet
USA isn’t the only country with masters exhibition events. Saturday in Kingston, the Jamaica International Invitational had a masters men’s 100. Ventseslav “Ventsi” Ivanov writes: “Very strong headwind. Unfortunately, the age of the sprinters is not seen, so it can
I doubt the IAAF will post a call for volunteers to officiate at the 2016 Rio Olympics. But World Masters Athletics is trolling for officials for 2015 Lyon worlds. According to the WMA website, would-be officials have until July 1,
What if they had a USA [corrected from USATF] Masters Throws Championships but nobody offered to host it? Such a scenario loomed for 2014, when USATF Masters Throws Coordinator Jerry Bookin-Weiner announced at 2013 Lisle throws nationals that no bids
Quarter-miler Robert Thomas reminds me that the deadline for entering the masters invitational events at USATF open nationals is June 15. And no wonder for the heads up. Nobody has entered. “The men’s event is the 400M hurdle with a
Record-setting 5K man and columnist Pete Magill, our M50 friend, is rolling out a website companion to a book he wrote. I was jazzed that it might be a reincarnation of his Younger Legs for Older Runners site, which he
At age 34, James Nielsen made history Sunday by becoming the first beer miler to go sub-5. So when he turns 35, I’m sure he’ll have the potential to becomes the greatest masters beer miler in history. I wrote about
The Rev. Dick Camp, an M75 sprinter who ran the featured masters 100 at Penn on Saturday, penned a nice note to Phil Felton, who coordinates masters events. Dick shared his email, a model for how we might thank the
Deadline looms for one of the top SoCal masters meets — the Striders Meet of Champions. The venue this year is Santa Ana College. Saturday’s meet is USATF-sanctioned, and you can enter by mail or online at Direct Athletics until
Rockland County is in New York, and until a few days ago I didn’t know it had a Sports Hall of Fame. But when my M60 hurdle friend Thad Wilson was inducted in the hall Saturday night, I cheered from
With Nick Berra elsewhere, Lance Elliott had the Drake Relays to himself this year, winning the masters 800 Friday for the second time in three years. He clocked 2:03.50 at age 43. On the women’s side, 44-year-old Chris Gentile notched
