Dang wind! If the breezes weren’t so stiff Sunday at the John Ward Masters Games, Kathy Bergen would have smashed the listed W70 world age-group record for 100 meters. According to results from the Santa Ana College meet south of
Myrle Mensey, the top W60 thrower in the United States, picked up a handful of medals at Kamloops but is now rehabbing tendinitis and bursitis in her shoulder. No matter. Her prime focus now is a nonprofit group she founded
Coach Joe Rubio, who once guided masters miler Aeron Arlin Genet, is “about my favorite coach on the planet,” writes Pete Magill, my favorite ex-distance blogger on the planet. Joe shares Pete’s priorities in life: “Family first, career second, running
By his own admission, Tony McManus hasn’t traveled to many meets. No wonder. Air fares from New Zealand can bite. But after setting an M60 world record in the mile this year and nearly taking down the 1500 record as
Chris, my wife of 29 great years, runs sprints in masters meets, trains with some world-class masters throwers in San Diego and ran the Carlsbad 5000 for the fifth time Sunday. But as she once told an opponent: “This isn’t
In mid-March, under everyone’s radar, Olympic decathlete Kip Janvrin resumed competition in the 10-event grind at age 44. He’d made a deal with the combined event athletes he coaches that he’d enter the dec at a meet in Texas if
While waiting for my wife to pass by, I shot the men’s and women’s masters races at today’s Carlsbad 5000. Christian Cushing-Murray, 42, won the men’s race for a second straight year (picking up another check for $1,000). His time
Sydney Olympian Kip Janvrin, who set the M40 world decathlon record at 2005 San Sebastian worlds, turns 45 in July and appears to want that age-group record as well. Friday at Emporia, Kansas, he wrapped up his latest decathlon —
Toronto folks are lucky ducks! They get to see the North American premiere of “Herbstgold” (“Autumn Gold”), the German-made masters track documentary that includes a lot of footage from Lahti worlds. It’s not the first masters track movie (that honor
Apparently, you have to wear your ballcap sideways to lure a sponsor. But I’ve written the folks at hookit.com to see if there’s a market for underwriting masters tracksters. Here’s a detailed history of this San Diego-based outfit, which used
We often celebrate comebacks by athletes who endured major injury or disease. But that’s not all we have to deal with. A masters sprinter has written me seeking advice on how to deal with clinical depression, especially the medications prescribed
Since neither WMA nor USATF list an indoor record for the M95 mile, Frank Levine apparently is the de facto record-holder. Competing at the Mid-Atlantic USATF Indoor Championships March 7 in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, forever-young Frank ran the mile in