Nothing like aging up to stoke your athletic fires. Just ask California’s Kathy Bergen, who turned 70 in late December. Competing at the USATF Mid-America Regional Masters Indoor Championships at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Kathy set world
Like clockwork, the German pair of Guido Müller and Christel Happ set new age-group PRs at German masters nationals this weekend. (See results here.) And PRs for them are world records for the rest of us. At Sindelfingen, site of
Several masters vaulters, including M50 Charles Brown and M55 Mike Hogan, were among 40 taking part Saturday in the Leon T. Roach Vault-a-thon, a fund-raiser and memorial at UC San Diego. (Results are here.) Leon was a sophomore vaulter at
After a two-year absence, the Hayward Masters Classic returns this summer to the University of Oregon. A new Web site, based on the runnerspace video archive, features clips from the 2008 event, which included a half-dozen world age-group records. The
Cornell Stephenson, a world-record sprint relayist and author of our only masters track novel, reports sad news: His track comeback has been delayed. Cornell writes: “I broke my (left) humerus bone (between elbow and shoulder, completely shattered) while at work
George Mathews and Ivars Ikstrums love the ultraweight pentathlon. For some age groups, this means throwing a concrete cylinder weighing 300 pounds. Over the past 25 years, this event (whose roots are in the Scottish Highland Games) has grown in
One of the attractions of competing at Sacramento State University this July was to be running, jumping and throwing on the same surface as Olympians-to-be in 2000 and 2004. Now it seems only runners and jumpers at masters nationals will
Rock climber Don McGrath’s new book is coming out in March. Called “50 Athletes over 50: Teach us to Live a Strong, Healthy Life,” it features short interviews with a bunch of masters tracksters, including thrower Bob Meluskey, middle-distancers Jim
We still have no clue where the North, Central America and Caribbean WMA regional meet will be this year, but now we know the whereabouts of Africa’s: Biskra Town, Algeria, in late October. (See this info sheet.) WMA’s Africa rep
British authorities have posted news of yet another 200-meter world record for Darren Scott. Under the headline “Great Scott!” we are told: “Darren Scott, Northern Veterans AC, whizzed to a new World M40 200m record in a sizzling 21.71sec at
Uh, don’t answer that question. But this newest training aid is so weird I couldn’t ignore it. Found it on Geoff Bramley’s masters track site in Australia. Check out this promo for Pelleres (which I refuse to add a ™
It’s a new world. Everything is on YouTube, including Wolfgang Ritte’s world record (actually two) set indoors last Sunday. Man, I wish I had a YouTube time machine so I could watch myself hurdling when I was 17!