Mike Travers, co-meet director of the 2010 masters indoor nationals in Boston along with trusty veteran Steve Vaitones, reports on our Forum: “Check us out on Facebook!” Here’s the link (if you’re a Facebooker). Although I belong to all major
Don’t do this at home. This YouTube video making the rounds shows a vaulter named Andrew Boyce, 44, fetching an errant Frisbee at his home in Illinois. It was posted in August, about a month after Oshkosh nationals, where he went 1.90
Floppers over forty, take note. Peter Hlavin, my Lahti housemate, writes that former NCAA high jumper Todd Acheson “has created what I believe is the first high jump curve calculator that is available to the general public on the Internet.
Another breakthrough for our niche. We made People magazine! Yes, in the same issue that covers Jon and Kate, Zac and Vanessa and Brad Pitt, we see W100 thrower Ruth Frith and M80 vaulter Hiroshi Miyamoto — doing their World
Another coup for mastershistory.org, our USATF-sponsored masters museum. Thanks to National Masters News publisher Randy Sturgeon (who gave permission), most all results from the U.S. national masters indoor championships are now online. (See them here.) The first meet’s results, in 1974, are
Bev McCall According to this post on a racewalk message board, Bev McCall is in charge of masters racewalk records. And she’s taking her job seriously enough to ask for help in vetting marks on the USATF records page. We
Earl Fee, the megarecord man, gave a speech at the Ontario Senior Games in October, which forms the bulk of his blog entry at Pete Magill’s site. Really interesting stuff. In it, Earl reveals he’s working on a new book
Ruthlyn V. Greenfield-Webster of Yonkers shared this nice profile of her some time ago. She writes: “My hospital (NYU Hospitals Center) published it. . . They interviewed me and did the photo shoot a year ago (thought they had forgotten
The Beeb is the BBC — some foreign radio channel or something. Don McGrath of the 50 Interviews project writes: “I was contacted about helping with a documentary for the BBC on senior athletes over 65. They are looking to
Oscar Peyton says he never ran track in high school or college — and basically started sprinting after he turned 50. That explains why he’s spilling the beans on his training regimen. (He didn’t know that elites keep their workouts
In late August, national masters chairman Gary Snyder wrote that he was seeking “middle ground” in the case of age-group records set the National Senior Games. On Monday, I wrote him for an update, and noted that the Palo Alto
In 1989, National Masters News tackled “Mission: Impossible.” It published the first of 14 annual booklets devoted to listing the best marks of every athlete mentioned in its results — across all age groups and events. Jerry Wojcik, senior editor