Pete Magill’s specialty is the 5000 meters. His cross country, road and track titles at that distance are many. On Sunday, he added another gem to the crown: M50 American outdoor record. It was the third lowering of the age-group
Dick Camp, a world-class M75 sprinter, has Parkinson’s disease, he informs. “I am not taking medications for PD,” he says. “My wife is filling me with brain food like kale, cabbage, etc., and good supplements. I also believe that wind sprints
Our longtime friend Kettrell Berry, whose young son is a running prodigy and whose masters friends are many, is sitting in a San Diego jail today after his arrest yesterday on 25 child-molestation charges. U-T San Diego reported: Kettrell Berry,
In 2007, Sacramento won the right to host 2011 worlds. All was right in the world (except for a war here and there). Then in 2008, the economy collapsed, and with it a lot of retiree investments. That’s why 6,000
British native Roald Bradstock threw the jav in two Olympic Games (1984 and 1988) and caught a bug: the Olympic Trials bug. He became a U.S. citizen and threw in our Trials in 2000, 2004 and 2008. This year, at
Buried in the results of last Saturday’s Southern California Striders Meet of Champions was a vault mark for newbie W70 Nadine O’Connor. About six weeks after aging up, she demolished the listed WR in the vault of 2.36 meters (7-8
USATF Masters Track National Chairman Gary Snyder reports that nobody tested positive for PEDs (illegal ingestibles) at the March indoor nationals in Bloomington. He didn’t say how many tests were done, but that’s a closely held secret anyway. World Masters
Buried in the results of the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational at Stanford over the weekend was the M40 American record for 5000 meters by Kevin Castille. So three weeks after his AR in the 10K on the same track, Kevin
About 10 years ago, whenever I saw Steve Scott at Cal State San Marcos, where he coaches, I would say, “Hey, Coach! I still have two years eligibility left!” That was a reference to my having run track for two
Nolan Shaheed set his latest American record yesterday morning at the Striders Meet of Champions at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. He clocked 9:49.76 for 3000 meters to beat the listed M60 AR of 10:11.24 by Douglas Winn in 2010.
Newbie M50 Mike Blackmore set an M50 American record in the 5K Friday at the Pacific University Twilight Meet in Forest Grove, Oregon. His time of 15:16.77 crushes the listed M50 AR of 15:41.67 by Mike Heffernan in 1991. (See
At least one American masters record was set today at the Penn Relays: The Houston Elite TC 4×1 team of Ron Johnson, Charles Allie, Richard Riddle and Bill Collins clocked 48.44 to beat the USATF club record of 50.9 by
