National Masters News has been updating subscribers via email on news from Humble, Texas, and the National Senior Olympics. See note below. But the key change in these games compared with previous years is that USATF Masters T&F has a
Meet director Mary Woo writes about her 4th annual Western States meet at UC Davis, a three-day meet ending Sunday west of Sacramento. Turnout was down about 20 entries from last year. (She had expected 50-entrant rise). But perhaps avalanche
“The fastest 79-year-old guy in the world.” That’s what hosts of a radio show say of distance runner Jerry Smartt of Warsaw, Missouri, in a 12-minute interview with lots of great photos from Lahti worlds, where he was a top-7
Check out yesterday’s 200-meter results from the National Senior Olympics down in Texas. Everyone fought a gale. The worst headwind I saw was 5.9 meters per second, or about 13 mph. Oscar Peyton won the M55 deuce in 24.92. So
Ed Whitlock is our Usain Bolt. The likes of him will not be seen again. On Saturday at Canadian masters nationals in Ontario, reports Doug Smith, “Ed ran the 10,000, the first event of Day 2 … under perfect conditions.
Phil Raschker, Charles Allie, Mike Waller, Oscar Peyton and Amanda Scotti — all USATF masters national champs — tuned up for worlds yesterday by winning their 100-meter finals at the National Senior Olympics in Humble, Texas. But expect them to
Donna Aylsworth of Philly shares results from last weekend’s Mid-Atlantic USATF Open & Masters Championship Meet held at Widener University, in Chester, Pennsylvania. See results here. The boldfaced marks are ones that better All-American Standards. Ones that popped out for
Ask and ye shall receive. A masters thrower wrote me yesterday: “How about a general forum about Sac where athletes can post and answer questions? Contacting the Sac folks is impossible. People may have local questions about Sac or about
The folks at National Senior Olympics have released a June 21-26 schedule for age group 65 and up. See it here. So whose ox is gored in this sked? Less than a week out, many people have already made their
Tony Harlin, who took fifth in the 1984 Olympic Trials, broke the M50 American record in the shot Friday, throwing 17.34 meters (56-10½) in a USATF Masters and Junior Olympics qualifier at Monsignor Farrell HS in the Oakwood section of
Chris Bates was on a tear at the national masters decathlon championships in Dallas over the weekend, getting three personal bests (for his age group, I assume). Then disaster struck. “I popped my left hamstring badly on my second attempt
Strange story in the New Orleans paper. It says an M90 gent named John Boots is training for the world record at 1600 meters. Say what? Did he mean mile? Did he say 1500 meters? Confusing as hell. In any