Haven’t had time to review all the results, but this week’s track meet up in Utah seems to have had some great competition. See results here for the so-called Huntsman World Senior Games. (They’re not affiliated with WMA or the
Australians Peter Crombie and Marie Kay have been named IAAF Masters Athletes of the Year, reports World Masters Athletics. Peter, a dominating M65 sprinter at Sacramento nationals, and Marie, a record-setting W50 multi-eventer, will be flown to Monaco for the
Last year and this, we wrote here about the competing masters track overseers in India. The WMA affiliate is acting like a banana republic, dictating who can attend major international masters meets. Of course, a little money will grease the
Michael Brauer of the Sioux City Journal wrote a nice profile of M65 middle-distance runner Gary Patton, only a week after Gary underwent hernia surgery. Good for Gary. That’s in the rearview mirror as he preps for Sacramento worlds. Gary
With that most imaginative headline — “Going for the gold” — the Charlotte Observer tells the story of the Carolinas Track Club and its plans for masters nationals in 2011. Not much noteworthy except this little nugget: “For the first
Two-time Olympian Natasha Mayers competed as a guest at Sacramento masters nationals. She won the W30 100 by nearly a second. But she’s being shadowed by a doping suspension that led one masters sprinter to send me an article about
Jan Tenhaven writes from Berlin that “Autumn Gold,” the masters track documentary that follow five entrants to Lahti worlds, will screen in California this month and, better yet, “will be the only German documentary eligible to run for the next
Former GeezerJock magazine editor Sean Callahan delivers some nice information in his latest article involving masters tracksters. He quotes M60 thrower Mike Thomason and sprinter Allan Tissenbaum, an injury expert and surgeon, who said: ” “Any time there’s swelling, that’s
Eight weeks in the making, La Mesa Patch went live at 7 this morning. Please check out the website I populated with too many helpers to enumerate. Biggest thanks go to my wife, Chris. Her contributions and support would take
The Associated Press reports the death of Washington State’s Dallas Kloke, M70 silver medalist at Sacramento nationals in the 2,000-meter steeplechase. He was subject of a search, according to local paper. “Kloke was just short of one of the east
Willie Gault, former NFL superstar and certified freak of nature, turned 50 on Sept. 5 and I missed it. Oops, sorry. A story in Fanhouse, however, reminded me that Willie is ready for an assault on the record books. We
Interesting report from NSGA:. “We are thrilled to announce that President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush have agreed to serve as honorary chairs of the 2011 Summer National Senior Games presented by Humana in Houston on June 16-30. ‘The Bushes