David O’Meara David O’Meara, who prefers asphalt to Mondo for his miles, recently finished a second summer of road races and achieved his goal: 27 mile runs (a little over a marathon) in a total time under 2 hours, 11
Everyone who’s competed at Long Beach State since 1995 knows the Pyramid — a dramatic blue-glass arena rising majestically north of the track. But the track itself has gone to seed, and folks running at Sunday’s Self-Transcendence meet noted its sorry shape.
Geoff Bramley of Brisbane, Australia, didn’t take baby steps when he conceived his marvelous masters Web site. He chose a domain name with grown-up ambitions: mastersathletics.info. Although the site launched last November, I wasn’t aware of it until he contacted
When (and if) Albert Erickson opened page 12 of September’s National Masters News, he must have been shocked. The lead item in Track Highlights said: “World Record Pole Vault at Seattle Classic” and reported how “Albert Erickson, M80, bettered the
Nadine O’Connor, the vault legend and world-record holder in the W65 100, has run hurdles before, “but never more than five,” she told me last night. Well, she’s no longer a long-hurdles virgin. Competing at Long Beach State University alongside
A few days ago, the list of track and field entrants at the Sydney World Masters Games mysteriously vanished from the site. Then suddenly a new list of entrants, dated Sept. 16, was posted. Here it is — all 200
Dieter Massin When he’s not working behind the scenes to elect his friends to WMA offices, Dieter Massin of Germany holds sway over the Eurovets. He’s the president of the EVAA. But I recently learned that he’s something else: a
Back in mid-August, around the time of the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, the IAAF Congress adopted a strange rule for masters nonstadia events (mainly road running) — that the starting age for masters is 40. This was news to
Bill Rodgers is 61. Nine women and 16 men are nominees for the USATF Masters Hall of Fame, according to the ballot sent by Norm Green to his Hall of Fame subcommittee. The Class of 2009 will be selected by a
A masters mole writes: “I note that there are a number of postings across the web concerning the validity of marks at the NSGA Nationals for record consideration. . . . You may be in a position to refer those
I’m a sucker for new training ideas. I try ’em out, keep the easy stuff and throw away the hard. Now I have two more to test: the medicine ball and skipping drills. My editor friend Sean Callahan of Masters
On July 11, 2009, I was shooting sprinters at Oshkosh nationals, especially admiring my fellow Jayhawk, M70 Bob Lida. He outlegged Robert Whilden 13.58 to 13.68 in a wind-aided 100-meter final. Hard to fathom such speed at that age. I’d