Jim Broun, an M55 world champion hurdler and my miracle medal relay teammate at Lahti, likely is calling it a season. He’s going in for an MRI tonight in Florida, which “will show much more than the X-ray which showed
Nick Berra says he had “a crazy couple of days” over the weekend — “literally planes, trains and automobiles.” That’s the understatement of the track season. On Friday, he won a drizzly masters 800 at Drake and the next day
A Wall Street Journal article on the new “kinesiology tape” is worth our attention. See story here. Might help some of us compete with less pain — or at least without handfuls of ibuprofen. “Some trainers swear by it,” says
A masters mole Down Under reports: “Irie Hill took a major step forward in her preparation for the UK summer with another (pole vault) world record at the Australian national (open) championships (April 17 at Challenge Stadium in Perth). Irie
Around the time mastersrankings.com got started, a policy was set: The site was open only to Americans who belong to USA Track & Field. No foreigners allowed. But occasionally non-U.S. citizens have gotten into the database — resulting in complaints
In my book, the toughest field event is the triple jump. Murder on the knees. So when I read about a 69-year-old setting the goal of taking down the M70 triple jump record, I snapped to attention. Such is the
They ran in the shade. They ran in the sun. They traded leads. They drew some of Friday’s loudest cheers at the Penn Relays. In the end, the M50 Sprint Force America quartet beat the M55 foursome of Houston Elite
M55 vaulter Peter McGinnis has shared the text of a speech he gave this month at SUNY Cortland with his friend Bubba Sparks. And Bubba has posted the talk on his blog. See it here. Peter is a recognized sports
Nick Berra added another notch to his belt today at Drake. He overtook two-time defending champion David Nash in the masters 800, 1:59.34 to 1:59.88, as 22 men crowded the race at Des Moines, Iowa. (Results are here.) The National
When I began masters competition in 1995, Milton “Nick” Newton was just this genial guy in the high jump — a friendly flopper in his early 60s! He gave me support and inspiration. Little did I know he was a
Jeff Watry, a national-class masters decathlete and jumper, is perhaps better known as a multi-event meet director and force behind the decamouse website. But he’s also a world-class engineer who has worked for Gill Athletics in Illinois since the mid-1990s.
Jason Rhodes, commenting elsewhere on this site, notes that a team he was on shattered the M35 world record in the 4×800 relay on April 3 — two weeks before the record attempt at Mt. SAC. The College of William