He jokes about being overweight. His busy life includes consulting, representing Fieldturf in Japan and sitting on two major boards (USATF and the USATF Foundation). But when Olympian Willie Banks wants to bring it, the old legs can still deliver.
Ugo Sansonetti, the Lahti sprint champ and Coca-Cola pitchman, ran the 60 in 11.38 seconds over the weekend at Italian masters nationals in Ancona. Not impressive? Try keeping up with that when you’re 91! Ugo beat the listed indoor WR
Dang if Pete Magill isn’t the most thoughtful writer on masters running (while at the same time being a superstar in his age group). His latest contribution to the genre: a defense of masters running against those who insist that
Google that acronym. That’s what the 100-meter men’s and women’s masters exhibitions at Des Moines nationals amount to. Details of these races, just announced, are now posted here. Men have to be under 11.4 and women under 13.6. But why
Dr. Greg Summers, a chiropractor in Washington State with a solid background in sports massage, will travel to Kamloops, British Columbia, in March to help his client Michael Waller, the world-class M50 sprinter. But he’ll knead you, too. This week,
In our never-ending quest for only the most current, timely and up-to-date masters track research, here’s a study that, um, came out eight months ago. No matter. It’s news to me. It’s an “academic dissertation to be publicly discussed, by permission
Is it the 5,300-foot elevation? Too many big meets going on (Kamloops, Boston)? Too stiff a qualifying standard? For whatever reason, only three men are signed up for the 1,000-meter masters exhibition race at the USA Indoor Track & Field
Darren Scott isn’t being arrogant. Just a little impish — and wickedly fast. After lowering the M40 indoor world record for 200 twice this season, the Scottish phenom returned to mere-mortal status last weekend at the British trials for the
Bert Morrow, my hurdler friend, died last week in Canada, reports Norm Green. He was 97. Although this news is saddening, I’m relieved to learn that Norm was able to ship Bert’s Hall of Fame plaque to him while he
Poor Nicoletta Incerti and Miriam Galli. They no-heighted at an indoor meet yesterday in Florence, Italy. But worse yet — they lost to a woman three decades older! W50 Carla Forcellini broke her own pending world indoor record in the
Darrell Green used to play football, got paid lots of money. But his claim of being the fastest boomer and $2.25 will buy him a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Read this nonsense. On Monday, Darrell turned 50 and said,
A detailed time schedule for Kamloops worlds is now posted here. And the latest entrant list is pretty much complete as well. Also, Canada’s roster — organized by province — lists nearly 540 entrants. Biggest contingent will be host British