W50 newbie Liz Palmer and M90 star Ralph Maxwell set American records in the hurdles over the weekend at the Rocky Mountain Masters Games in Fort Collins, Colorado, according to early reports. Official results haven’t been posted, but Liz reportedly
Debbie Selby, daughter of ironman M80 runner Jim Selby, went in for an annual checkup August 3 and discovered a lump in her breast. It was small, and almost overlooked. But Dr. Georganne Novak put Debbie through a needle biopsy,
M65 sprinter Donald Neidig and W50 cohort Liz Palmer are shooting for national age-group records in the 200 and 100, respectively, at tomorrow’s Rocky Mountain Masters Games, says a story in the local paper. The meet is at Colorado State
Geraldine Finnegan’s season from hell ended with some heavenly finishes at the Irish Masters Athletics Championships, say online reports. This story says: “Geraldine Finnegan insists she is delighted to have put her ‘nightmare’ doping scandal behind her after claiming five
A few days ago, USATF published the results of its long-awaited stretching survey. Here’s the summary. And here are the protocols. “To stretch or not to stretch? That’s a question millions of runners ask themselves daily,” the report begins. “But
Paul Astles, a graduate student at Leeds Metropolitan University in England, has reached out with an interesting request. Paul writes: “I am currently studying for an MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology and I am planning on undertaking my thesis
Dave Ortman didn’t compete at Sacramento nationals, but he loves the pentathlon. He notes: “Although the outdoor pentathlon is a USATF masters championship event, I don’t know of any masters regional championship that includes it. So I organized a masters
More masters wisdom from the Great White North: “People want to achieve things and that doesn’t necessarily disappear because you’re old. If somebody feels capable of doing something, it’s what they want to do, then they should go ahead and
Vyacheslav Shabunin of Russia clocked 4.01.62 Saturday in Finland — an M40 world outdoor record for the mile, beating the listed WR of 4:02.53 by Britain’s David Moorcroft in 1993. I came across the stunning result in an Irish athletics
Throwers were in hog heaven over the weekend. The USATF Masters Northwest Throws and Ultraweight Pentathlons were held Saturday at West Seattle Stadium, reports George Mathews. “Nine men and two women competed in both pentathlons,” he writes. “The weight throw
Chuck Shields of the Greater Philadelphia Track Club has sent results for a demanding “track pentathlon.” Races were run in this order: 3000, 800, 200, 1500 and 400. Winners were determined by the Age-Graded Tables. Chuck writes: “This competition was
Bill Roe, former USATF prez, has just wrapped up his all-comers series in Shoreline, Washington. Dave Ortman writes: “Bill just finished up the 42nd annual summer of putting on all-comers meets in the Seattle area. An astounding record considering that