Trivia question: How is Joel Dubow like Jimmy Carter? Answer: Both wanted to keep athletes from competing in their dream event. Joel is president of the Philadelphia Masters Track Club. But fortunately for masters runners at the rival Greater Philadelphia
Masters statman and blog regular Pino Pilotto of Switzerland, a masters multi-eventer (oops! combined-eventer), is one of my heroes. Not because he excels, but because he tries. Like my friend Dr. Richard Watson of Yuma — who will enter a
Anyone who ran track before, say, 1996 was cheated out of a truly cool experience: watching videos of themselves online. In 1971, I saw a film of myself running the 180-yard low hurdles at the Chaffey Invitational in Southern California.
Over the weekend, 73-year-old Jeanne Daprano ran a fantastic mile. She clocked 7:02.86 at her association masters meet in Statesboro, Georgia. When I got the results from Jim and Joyce Hite, the meet directors, I checked the USATF records. I
Ed Burke, meet Carol Young. The same weekend that M70 Ed threw a possible WR in the hammer at Mt. SAC, W70 Carol threw an American record in the same event — across the country. At the USATF Georgia Association
Before Penn dominates our attention, a quick nod to another great masters exhibition: the same-weekend Drake Relays, which again hosts a masters 800-meter race. A field of 23 gets the gun about 1:30 p.m. Friday (Des Moines times). Some great
Ed Burke, the three-time Olympian who took up the hammer again at age 65, didn’t wait long after turning 70 to claim his latest record. He celebrated his 70th birthday in early March. This morning at the Mt. SAC Relays,
At the Mt. SAC Relays today, Kathy Bergen ran 14.76 in the 100 meter-dash, becoming the oldest woman to run sub-15 with a legal wind. In fact, the gauge recorded a 0.3 mps headwind. She easily gapped the listed W70
According to tonight’s results from the Mt. San Antonio College Relays east of Los Angeles, the SoCal Track Club team of Brian Dameworth, Brian Sax, Brian McCaffrey and Alex Hastings just missed the listed M35 world record for the 4×800
Willie Gault, bless his 49-year-old heart, has gone off the deep end. On the eve of his annual appearance at the Mt. SAC Relays, he’s dropping hints that he’d like to play in the NFL again “if the right situation”
Kamloops medalist Doug Watson, featured yesterday, isn’t the only Oregonian to make a strong showing at worlds. Our attention is pointed toward a neat profile of a married pair who both brought home hardware from Kamloops. Check this out. It’s
According to Oregon’s Blue Mountain Eagle newspaper, M60 thrower Doug Watson is a world champion. But in the very next two sentences, writer Sandra Gubel notes: “Watson won two medals in the World Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships, held