The latest claimant to the American record in the W40 1500 is Sonja Friend-Uhl, who is profiled in Competitor magazine by an all-too-trusting Kevin Beck. But who can blame him for “looking it up” and being let down by the
Results have yet to be posted here, but frequent meet announcer and masters track geek Bill Fitzpatrick reports: “Willie Gault today in the 100: 10.88, W=+1.8. 200: 22.44, W=+1.2. 2 WRs” at the Occidental Invitational in Los Angeles. This is
The Aussies are playing with fire. First they go and set two world relay records at their masters outdoor nationals in Brisbane. Now they’re challenging the Yanks at worlds. “Look out for them both in Sacramento,” says Down Under correspondent
In a story this week in the Montreal Gazette, M80 distance god Ed Whitlock gets his latest due. Under the headlines “Running ahead of his peers/At 80, Marathon star Ed Whitlock offers proof of what researchers call ‘exceptionally successful aging’,”
Kris Paaso, the new W40 middle-distance star, is reportedly not interested in Sacramento worlds. Pity. She ran a lifetime best of 4:23.54 in the 1500 meters Sunday at the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford — a relative stone’s throw from
Hi, all. A Texas sprinter in his 70s writes: “I am suffering from loss of cartilage in my right knee, not enough to halt running yet, but causing some pain. Do you know of any quality sprinters who run with
Ex-Brit javelin thrower Roald Bradstock writes: “Six days ago I turned 49 and (this week) it will be the 25th anniversary of when I became the first person to break the 80-meter barrier with a world record of 81.74m /
Nolan Shaheed decided to run just one race at Saturday’s Southern California Striders Meet of Champions. He focused on the 15 after running two world records in the 800 the previous two weekends. Guess he picked right. Running with men
Tenth place in Friday’s women’s 4×4 at Penn may have slipped under the radar. But look again. The Central Park Track Club/New Balance team of Marie-Louise Michelsohn, Deborah Barchat, Judith Tripp and Mary Rosado clocked 6:17.80. That’s almost 42 seconds
In fact, masters track royalty steps onto the track Friday in Philadelphia! The Penn Relays, as usual, features more than a dozen masters exhibition events this weekend. See all masters results here. And for the first time (in my stunted
The Mother Ship in Indy has honored Nolan Shaheed as USATF Athlete of the Week for his 2:08.5 world age-group record in the 800 over the weekend. A story about him, presumably by Katie Landry of USATF press staff, is
The latest Sacramento worlds newsletter says the meet is still on track to exceed 5,000 entrants. Total in hand now is 4,510, which includes 1,817 Americans and a goodly number from the People’s Republic of China. Bob Burns of the