Oshkosh masters nationals outraged athletes last summer by charging family members just to watch. They also had parking fees. I doubt Sacramento will charge admission, but now we know what parking will cost: $13 for a week’s pass or $6
Mt. San Antonio College is catering to masters this summer with an all-comers series that includes the 100-yard dash July 7 and July 21. Anyone under 40 might wonder: What is 100 yards? What is that in meters? (It’s 91.44,
From now on, Vermont’s Flo Meiler is Flo-Go! Point Flo to a meet, and she just goes. And for the umpteenth time in the past couple years, she’s set an age-group vault record. This time, however, it should stick. On
Charlie Hodgson, who wrote the software to run swim and track meets, reports that his Hy-Tek program now incorporates the WMA 2010 age factors used to score combined events in masters meets. This is great news. The bad news: Not
David Heath of London turned 45 in late May, and he’s wasting no time inching closer to a world record. According to a British stat site, Dave, who competed in the world cross country championships as recently as 2000, ran
Running for Trafford AC at a British Athletic League meet Saturday, M40 Darren Scott scorched the 100 and 200 in national record times. Darren ran the 1 in 10.92 (a Scottish M40 record) in a guest race and then a
Germany splits its masters nationals into two meets — under-50 and 50-and-over. At the over-50 meet in Kevelaer, Christel Happ long-jumped 3.05 meters (exactly 10 feet) to again beat the listed W80 world record of 2.78 (9-1 1/2) by American
Neni Lewis and Mary Roman wreaked havoc on the record books yesterday in Albany, New York. Competing in the hammer, weight and superweight throws at the USATF East Region Masters Championships at SUNY, Neni set world records in the hammer
By now, everyone knows you can’t set a USATF record unless the meet is sanctioned by USATF (or a partner). So what happens if the USATF masters outdoor nationals aren’t sanctioned? Check out the USATF calendar. Yup, the USATF Western
The M75 world record in the shot is safe for now. Drat! Dr. James Oglesby, whose American records were creeping ever closer to a German’s WR, reports that his season has ended. Blame dehydration leading to a bum calf. “At
W75 star Mary Harada, a frequent voice on this blog, has fessed up. She attributes her back-to-back mile world records to performance-enhancing “nonfat yogurt — (especially) frozen — coffee and chocolate.” But she’s gracious as well as funny. Mary writes:
USATF Records Committee Chairman Justin Kuo today updated usatf.org’s records page. We now see the official M35 world record for 4×800 as a pending American record. Kind of quirky, but what the hell. Sandy Pashkin, USATF Masters Records Committee chair,