In her latest blog entry at YLFOR, Alyssa Tower admits that she wept when she saw the USATF W45 record for the track 10,000. It showed a pending mark from April 2008 by Monica Joyce — and not Alyssa’s own
Anselm LeBourne, the world champion sparkplug of the Lahti meeting that led to a masters athletes group within USATF, writes today: “The name of the group will be USAMA based on the votes received. I want to personally thank all
Bill Murray is the biggest loser I know. But I didn’t realize this until after he’d returned home to his real estate business in Alabama following Lahti, where he won the M55 decathlon in an American record. Bill doesn’t boast
Jerry Smartt ran some M75 distance races at Lahti worlds, and though he didn’t bring home a medal, his visit was golden. It was a homecoming of sorts. In a great profile published today in the Columbia Missourian, he tells Sarah
Germany’s Dieter Massin, the anti-doping crusader and president of the Eurovets, has sent a tantalizing clue that someone was caught in Lahti’s drug dragnet. In response to my query (Did anyone test positive at Lahti?), Dieter replied today: “The tests,
I don’t live in Louisiana or Mississippi, but I admire their Baton Rouge-based USATF association. I’m also on their distribution list. The other day, I got email with the subject line “How are we doing?” and a note headlined “Feedback Survey
August 5 dawned bright in Lahti, Finland, tinged with anticipation. The WMA General Assembly was meeting on a rest day at the World Masters Athletics Championships to elect a new president and other officers. Stan Perkins, running against Ohio’s Rex Harvey, won the presidency
Harold at Kamloops in July. Harold Morioka may be the Job of masters track, suffering more than his share of physical afflictions and other issues. Now he faces one of his biggest tests — open-heart surgery today. Harold sent Doug
On August 2, 2009, the Web site of October’s Sydney World Masters Games reported: “Minister for Tourism Jodi McKay tonight announced that Sydney is on track to stage the largest ever World Masters Games this October with more than 28,000
A perpetual argument in masters track is how to bring about change — from within the “system” or via pressure from without. (I’ve tried both tacks.) The late Bob Fine would constantly demand that I “shut up!” and let the
Carmel Papworth-Barnum, recovering from a calf/Achilles injury that kept her out of Lahti worlds, keeps adding great stuff to her Web site, Women Running Together. Her latest feature is a blog that includes her own musings as well as that
Last December, USATF president-to-be Stephanie Hightower addressed the USATF Masters T&F Committee at the Reno convention. Among other things, she said: “You all feel that you’re one of the invisible groups.” She promised to turn that around. This week, she