Leftover from Daegu worlds is news for masters road runners. WMA reports: “César Moreno Bravo, a Council Member of the IAAF, has just announced that by a very clear majority, the IAAF Congress voted in favour of recovering Rule 141,
This was long overdue. Our M50 middle-distance star Anselm LeBourne is featured in Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd. I don’t have the magazine at hand, but here’s what the website said of AL: “LeBourne, a 52-year-old retired NYSE analyst,
Michael Jackson is an M35 masters trackster who pops up four times in the results from the California State Games, aka the State Games of America. You know, the Meet from Hell. But San Diego’s Balboa Stadium was a paradise
The stories behind the photos blow me away. On Monday, a PRWeb news release about Ralph Peterson linked to my photo of Thad Wilson handing off to him in the M60 WR 4×100 at Sacramento worlds. Turns out the back
The track meet of the European Masters Games has one of those snazzy flag-dotted results sites. See it here. I haven’t inspected marks closely, but I notice folks from all over the continent and elsewhere — including Argentina. Starting Sept.
Conor O’Driscoll graciously shares this neat news: “Neil FitzGerald, world masters champion, has established a milers club in New York with the support of Jerry Macari’s Urban Athletics organization, and has organized three wonderful nights of miling at Van Cortlandt
Earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes? They don’t faze me — especially if they’re in the East. But in a patch of the Left Coast this week, a 10-hour power outage knocked me for a loop. Actually, I had the ability to
An obscure blog for the Strawberry Canyon Track Club reports an M60 American record in the track 5K at (apparently) the University of California at Berkeley on August 31, 2011: “In tow was an even more remarkable performance turned in
The 2011 World Police & Fire Games — with lots of masters categories — wrapped up Sept. 5 in New York City. I note at least one fellow traveler on the USATF masters circuit — Tony Ciccone of the New
Pete Magill isn’t shy. He’ll admit he’s run for records — and to win. But not anymore. He’s done with the criminally dysfunctional system that forces athletes to carry paperwork with them, submit marks for records and cross their fingers
USATF is circulating the photo below, asking: Who he? Actually the query from Jared Slinde, USATF communications manager, in Indianapolis was: “We are attempting to identify a photo from USA Masters this year for inclusion in our Fast Forward magazine.
This news is old, but the shock is still fresh: Pierre Quinon of France, the 1984 Olympic pole vault champion, committed suicide in mid-August. Becca’s site had the scoop and reaction. It’s especially a surprise to me, since I heard