Canadian masters maven Doug Smith just added to his legend. He’s inveiled ontariomastersathletics.ca. It’s a very newsy site with tons of content, including a gazillion photos by photogeek Doug. Eastern Canadian masters are in Web heaven.
Taiwan has been chosen to host the next Asia Masters Athletics Championships. This is big. The decision was made Dec. 8 at the Asia Masters General Assembly at the Cititel Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Why big? A masters mole
Kay Glynn, our W55 multi-eventer, I can’t get enough of. Last week she appeared on the “Morning Blend” TV show in Omaha (although she lives in Iowa). No matter. The 5-minute clip includes a dance/exercise routing to a contemporary Christmas
Douglas Kalembo is looking for a Santa without the middle name Kafka. His efforts to get recognition for the first sub-50 for 400 at age 50 are winding through a maze of bureaucracy. But his 49.85 clocking last July has
Peter Taylor, God’s gift to masters track announcing and a superadvocate for records sanity, gets my first gift: diamond-tipped fingers for his keyboard exertions. My second gift goes to my friend Rita Hanscom, who in her day job has been
It’s about time the La Canada Valley Sun gave Kathy Bergen some ink. How many world records does it take? In any case, a writer with an L.A. Times email address did justice to our W70 sprinter/jumper friend and teammate
Andy Hecker is relentless. First he posts a world masters records page on Wikipedia. Now he’s done the same for American records. (See his latest work here.) Andy writes: “Here’s my Christmas gift to the masters community. I waited until
This is a hoot. Several people (including my son) have sent me this link. It’s a hurdling video for the ages. Thank goodness it doesn’t involve my age group. Or continent. How many DQ actions can YOU spot? At least
Rich Burns says he knew his crossworld distance friend and rival Keith Bateman was going for his M55 world mile record. They exchange notes. “He was good enough to e-mail me from the track that he had run around 34/35
Who said it was indoor season? Not Keith Bateman. The Aussie superstar yesterday ran a mile outdoors in 4:35.04, taking nearly 2 seconds off Rich Burns’ 6-month-old M55 world record of 4:36.94. Rich had lowered a record that had lasted
Don’t look now, but indoor track season is here. The Philly Masters TC had a great little meet last Sunday at the Glen Mills Schools, and quite a few great marks were posted. See results here. Heather Scanlon sent these
In contrast to Puerto Rico’s hurry-up organization of WMA regionals in early September, the 2012 WMA regional meet sounds like a first-class operation. This just came out: “On Thursday, organizers of North American, Central American and Caribbean World Masters Athletics