Flo Meiler in Oshkosh During a record attempt last month at Oshkosh nationals, Flo Meiler of Vermont fell and banged her head on the pole vault box. The gash required six staples. She recovered quickly, though, and took home a
Tom Phillips wore two hats at Lahti words — M55 sprinter and British masters track photographer. He excelled at both, winning a gold medal (as third leg of the UK team that beat the USA team in my 4×1) and
According to meet results from the National Senior Games in Palo Alto, all-world M55 sprinter Bill Collins ran the 100 prelims and semifinals but not the finals. He didn’t run the 200 but entered (and won) the 400. Old rival
“Masters endurance athletes are capable of remarkable athletic and physiological functional performance, thereby representing a uniquely positive example of ‘exceptional ageing,’ ” says a Journal of Physiology study that’s come my way. See it here. Of course we know the next
Since the official Lahti results site can vanish at any time, I’ve collated the day-by-day text files, throws pentathlon results and marathon team results into a single PDF — 814 pages long. See it here. I made it searchable, so you
Rita Hanscom of San Diego was named USATF Athlete of the Week today by Indy officials — a long-overdue honor coming on the heels of her incredible five-gold performance at Lahti worlds. She should have gotten it seven days ago,
In “Rome 1960,” David Maraniss‘ wonderful account of the “Olympics that changed the world,” Rafer Johnson keeps telling himself: “I’ll never have to run the dang 1500 again” as he shadows UCLA teammate C.K. Yang of Taiwan. Rafer won decathlon
I went to Lahti, my second world masters meet, with modest goals: Run the 100 and 200 with no injuries. Make a height in the high jump. Meet my Eurovet email pals and photog friends. (And cover the historic General
Robert Nesbit Jr., an Army officer wounded in Iraq, eventually recovered and competed in M45 middle distances a month ago at Oshkosh, running for Club Northwest. When he got home, he dissected the meet as if it were a military
Cherrie Sherrard, Mike Curry and Don Pellmann are world-class athletes. But when they broke world or American age-group records in recent weeks, they weren’t in Finland but Davis and Palo Alto, California. Here’s my feeble attempt at catching up with
Anselm LeBourne, who organized and led a meeting with U.S. athletes in Lahti, has sent the following note to participants: “I want to thank you all for attending the meeting at the World Masters Championships. I want to say a
New York’s Anselm LeBourne shadowed Great Britain’s Steven Smith at the Radiomaki (radio mast) track for all but 210 meters of their M50 1500 final track at Lahti worlds Then he kicked like crazy, winning by about 40 meters. Check out this