M50 thrower John Seto, the hero who launched and managed mastersrankings.com for Americans, plans to take his show on the global road. Today he announced (via comments here and Facebook postings) that he’s ready to take up the slack for
Sorry for the fire drill. If you have a moment, please check out three stories I wrote for TravelersToday.com. I submitted them Thursday, and they amount to a tryout for this national news site. The more pageviews, the better my
Toronto’s Globe and Mail, the No. 2 paper in Canada, turned its attention this week to that other track star from Vancouver. Not Olga Kotelko but her W75 pal Christa “IAAF World Best” Bortignon, setter of 14 world records and
Bob Marchetti graciously shares news about world-class M50 quarter-miler Mike Sullivan. He’s an Arizonan who frequently travels to California for competition. According to a Massachusetts paper, “Five well-decorated track stars from Brockton High School will be inducted today into the
Here’s a great way to expand your entry list: Rename your meet! The Eurovets website says a Nordic Masters Indoor Championships is set for March 7-9 in Haugesund, Norway. “All five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway) will
W40 distance ace Grace Padilla, a Southern Californian known for her bikini briefs and world-class marks, is the subject of a delightful profile on a track site I never knew about. “In 2010 she became double masters 1,500 and 5000
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, you can always count on deadlines being pushed back for major international masters meets. The latest is Budapest. Despite a USATF statement that “the entry deadline is February 3, 2014 (no exceptions),” the LOC
The most serious and comprehensive masters track statistical site in history has closed. Shut after seven years. That’s the word from an Eastern European friend, with access to other sources. Masters Mole 377(c)2 wrote me in late October 2013: “All
At the same meet in Glasgow that 39-year-old Bernard Lagat won the 3000 in 7:49.83, another M35 quietly crushed the listed indoor WR in the 400. Chris Brown of the Bahamas clocked 45.93, which beats the 47.45 of France’s Pierre-Mariew
Pennsylvania’s Nick Berra, won his first M40 Hartshorne masters mile since 2010, clocking 4:25.09, and London’s Bernadine Pritchett, 47, won the women’s elite race in 5:17.53 as dozens turned in great efforts Saturday at Cornell University’s Barton Hall indoor meet
Middle-distance stars Scott Weeks and Nick Berra went 1-2 in last year’s Hartshorne Masters Mile men’s 40 elite race, and guess what? Both are back for Saturday’s meet in balmy Ithaca, New York. Thank goodness it’s an indoor meet, since
Talk about masters moles! America now has one at World Masters Athletics. National class M50 hurdler Jeff Brower has been named manager of the WMA website, replacing former Eurovets President Dieter Massin of Germany, who was the Karl Rove of
