Officially, it’s called the USA Masters Combined Events Championships. But it’s the mecca for masters decathletes and heptathletes. This year, reports Jeff Watry, the event is June 11 and 12 in Dallas, Texas. Website home is listed as sites.google.com/site/texasexpresstfclub/ —
USATF has notified organizers of the Albuquerque masters indoor nationals that they won’t get their $5,000 deposit back until they cough up information to resolve timing issues at the meet. Boston’s Gary Snyder, USATF masters track and field national chairman,
David Jones, team coordinator for Southwest Sprinters TC, reminds us that the UK’s Darren Scott isn’t the only hot M40 sprinter around. David writes: “Reginald Pendland, a M40 runner for Southwest Sprinters TC and the 2010 World 60m champion, is
In a postal meet of my own concoction, W45 Alisa Harvey nipped M60 Nolan Shaheed in the 800 Saturday — Alisa clocking 2:13.67 in Fairfax, Virginia, to Nolan’s 2:13.94 in Claremont, California. But that’s not the fun part. Running against
Ed Whitlock went from a WR in the mile to a WR in the marathon in three weeks. Today in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Ed ran 26.2 miles in 3 hours, 25 minutes, 40 seconds. As Race Results Weekly reported in its
I turn 57 in two weeks. So around this time, my radar goes up for marks by cohorts. Today I learned about a 57-year-old prolific runner names Dale Campbell, who covered a mile in about 5:45. But wait! He did
Several days ago, an Albuquerque nationals entrant sent me an eloquent plea for resolution to the indoor records morass. The athlete listed six events where records were set but never acknowledged. The note closed by saying: “I haven’t even been
Oregon TC Masters is reprising its masters exhibition events at elite meets, starting Saturday. Local paper even mentioned them weeks ago. Details on entering are on the OTCM website here. Craig Godwin is the go-to guy for event info. Craig
Lesley Richardson sent along some great photos from the Eurovets indoor meet in Ghent, Belgium — M40 sprint champ Darren Scott and W55 distance queen Gail Duckworth. Darren’s picture reminded me that I never got around to sharing news (from
ISO (aka ASA) is a camera setting that lets you choose between capturing action in low light or rich detail in normal light. In the olden days, an ASA setting of 1600 meant a lot of “grain” in a photo
Buried in the results of a track 10K a few days ago in Salem, Oregon, was this time: 31:46.63 by Mike Blackmore of Bowerman AC. Mike is 49. I never would have noticed it, of course. (I can barely run
This was sadly inevitable: News of how the Japanese catastrophe affected masters athletes in Japan: “The IAAF is deeply saddened to receive the news that Takashi Shimokawara, one of the legends of Japanese and world masters athletics, was a victim