Reluctantly and poetically, Don Neidig is hanging up his spikes. The M65 superstar and indoor world record holder (200 in 25.47) has battled a series of ailments in recent years, but the latest have sealed his fate. In a letter
You have a better chance of being molested by a Marilyn Monroe impersonator than being drug-tested on the USATF masters circuit, but for what it’s worth: “Did you know that you could be drug tested at any USATF sanctioned event?
Masters Mole 3321 writes: “The world masters records have finally been updated. Last March 6, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, our own Joy Upshaw absolutely blasted the 200 meters, showing her classic form and power to hit the line in 26.24
On the previous post about Nolan Shaheed’s night-before-meet ordeal in Baton Rouge, Gary wrote: “How about this novel idea: Why don’t we set up a masters network around the country to support his kind of thing? If I lived in
Coach and meet director Byron Turner of US Express Track Club shares the official news: Nolan Shaheed set his latest world record Saturday. But wait for the rest … of the story from Nolan himself (meeting my usual shameless demands
Make some room at the top, Olga Kotelko. We have another Canadian superstar in western Canada. Meet jump specialist and Sacramento world champion Christa Bortignon, a newby W75. She set five indoor world records earlier this month at Kamloops, site
Thursday Night at the Races at the Armory in New York yielded a stunning time this week: a 5:12.2 world record for W60 Kathy Martin in the indoor 1500, chopping 10 seconds off the listed WR of 5:22.50 by Britain’s
World-class M50 hurdler Eugene Anton is used to obstacles, but a tall one looms in March: making a success of his USATF Ozark Association Masters/Open Indoor Championships at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois — less than an hour north of
I had a nice chat yesterday with a reporter in Florida, who produced this nice summary of masters sports. Thomas Becnel writes: “In Englewood, 80-year-old David Rider has set records in everything from the high jump to the 5,000-meter. To
Andy Hecker, director of the annual Southern California Indoor Meet Held Outdoors, has posted results. See them here. Besides the Nolan Shaheed M60 American record for 3,000, the meet saw M60 Jim Stevens long jump 5.85 meters (19-2 1/2). How
Running a little outside their comfort zones, milers Marie-Louise Michelsohn and Nolan Shaheed notched a pair of American records over the weekend: W70 Marie-Louise clocked a 3:04.69 for 800 (indoors) and Nolan a 9:57.46 for 3000 meters (outdoors). MLM ran
It was Mother’s Day on the Net this week. The Associated Press had a story on elite high jumpers prepping for London Olympics after giving birth. And a Fox Sports West site talked about long hurdler Lashinda Demus pointing for
