My baby is ready to fly. For the past eight weeks, I’ve been getting La Mesa Patch set to launch. It’s the online newspaper I mentioned as my new job. If you’d be so kind, would you please go to
So if the winner of the Olympic decathlon is the world’s greatest athlete, what do you call victors in the double decathlon? The world’s greatest superstars? Whatever you call them (including crazy beyond belief), you got to give double-decars credit
Doug Smith reports that a Canadian TV station has started showcasing three California masters tracksters. Doug writes, and quotes director Genevieve Brault: “Our ‘109’ episode on Masters Athletes will air next week on RDI (Réseau de l’information) in Canada. The
Weldon Johnson, or WEJO of letsrun.com fame, sent me a note that Sunday morning’s Fifth Avenue Mile will be live-streamed on the Web, and you can see it via the screen below. Races start at 9 a.m. Eastern time. And
The BBC cites World Masters Athletics and quotes various age-grading experts in a story posted yesterday. It basically tries to answer the question: When is a woman equal to an older man in distance running. Lucy Proctor, 28, says she
Many people are guessing about the firing of Doug Logan as CEO of USATF, with some (like Weldon Johnson of letsrun.com in this analysis) missing the point entirely. Logic does not apply. This was a clash between USATF President Stephanie
To help the USATF Masters T&F Awards Committee decide who should get top honors, a list is prepared showing which Americans set world indoor and outdoor records in 2010. The list posted here is unofficial, of course. Records aren’t gold-plated
Mary Trotto took over from Dave Clingan as chairman of the USATF Masters T&F Awards Committee (of which I’m a member). Here’s part of what Mary sent her members: “Anyone can nominate any athlete including nominating themselves. Below are those
WMA President Stan Perkins reports that “World Masters Athletics acknowledges the information recently received from the IAAF that Mr. Nour Eddine Chakour, (but maybe should be called Noureddine) a master athlete from Italy, was found guilty of a doping offence.
Weia Reinboud should clone herself. (Actually, she already has — as the photo below shows.) Yesterday she closed her season at a small town in her native Holland by clearing 1.47 meters (4-9 3/4) on her first try — bettering
With AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” pounding in the background, this video captures the drama and intensity of the M50 shot at Sacramento nationals two months ago. Well worth the wait! I was privileged to witness this titanic battle of spinners
The Holy Grails keep on coming. Once upon a time, I wished aloud for an online Age-Graded Tables calculator. Those online lookup forms eventually popped up. But one of the harder online forms to find is one that calculates masters