Added a new feature today. Display a blog entry and you’ll see five stars. If you think an entry is tasteless, dumb or worthless — click Weak. If it moves you, makes you laugh out loud or blows you away,
Jimson Lee, a longtime British Columbia coach and M45 sprinter, apparently is now based in Rome, Italy. But his speedendurance.com blog remains a rich resource on long sprinting (the 200 and 400). He occasionally writes about masters sprinting, including this
A week after competing at the National Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Wolfgang Ritte found a local German meet — and raised his own world indoor record in the M55 vault by 11 centimeters. He jumped 4.51 (14-9 1/2) to
Christian Cushing-Murray is called Chris in his old IAAF bio, “Cush” by friends and “Coach” by his track and cross country athletes at Foothill High School, where his son Nathaniel, a junior, runs. “My daughter Jessica, currently a fairly successful
Tom Surber’s name is on the USATF press release, but I wrote the bulk of it (as a member of Bob Weiner’s Masters T&F Media Committee). If you spot any errors, my apologies. (And let me know the flubs.) Bob
NSGA head kahuna Phil Godfrey opens a 3-minute, 40-second video promoting the National Senior Games — an easy way to spread the message. USATF has a similar project in the works (called “Forever Fast”). John Oleski of Boston is in
Despite finishing eighth, Russia’s Vyacheslav Shabunin today improved his M40 world indoor record for 3000 meters, clocking 8:01.44. This is about 200 meters short of two miles, so he’s averaging each mile in about 4:15. Incredible. The mark came at
If anyone can appreciate the world-record spree of Vyacheslav Shabunin, it’s Jim Sorensen, the Northern California miler who had one of his own in 2007. After the Russian set his 1500 indoor WR, I wrote to Jim for his reaction.
Somewhat off the beaten track of exhibitions, the masters mile at today’s Reebok Boston Indoor Games was still a doozy. Results are here. Chris Teague held off Ray Puglsey, 4:29.05 to 4:29.43 as a dozen men dipped under 4:40 at
Nice piece in a Northern California paper today about Tony Giovannoni of Napa, who won the M50 indoor heptathlon title last week in Wisconsin. Not familiar with the gent, but I applaud his instant grasp of masters mortality. Tony tells
Folks at the National Senior Games have posted “minimum performance standards” for the 2011 National Senior Olympics in Houston. It’s part of a long PDF on rules. See it here. The track and field qualifying standards are reasonable, but aren’t
Jeff Brower over at usatfmasters.org, our new portal, has posted the complete roster of U.S. entrants for Kamloops worlds. See it here. I’ve been helping Bob Weiner (attending his first world meet) prepare a press release on the event, and