Lee Bergquist stays in shape himself at 55. Lee Bergquist, a runner and reporter, was given two leaves of absence at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to write a book about masters sports. It’s been years in the making, and last month
Congratulations to Leland McPhie, Robert Hewitt, Robert Howard, Bill Murray, Emil Pawlik, Sumi Onodera-Leonard, Nadine O’Connor and Athena 4×4 relayists Jane Brooker, Maryline Roux, Joan Hunter and Charmaine Roberts! Your world indoor records from Landover nationals are now posted on
Of course, practice doesn’t count. But it’s amazing to watch someone 67 years old vault this high. Pete Magill — crossing the line again because he’s supposed to be blogging about distance runners, not jumpers — linked to a YouTube
Doug Logan In his latest blog entry, USATF CEO Doug Logan writes: “Youth and masters athletes also are subject to drug testing.” Wrong. USATF does not ask masters tracksters for a urine sample (unless they compete on the elite level,
W55 multi-eventer Kay Glynn, the grandmother of three with six-pack abs, is shown vaulting on page 12 of the July/August issue of AARP, the retirees magazine. Also shown in a smaller photo is Charles Modlin, 85, who the text says
Competing in the same high-altitude region that hosted the 1968 Olympic Trials, masters ran wild (and had great jumps and throws) Saturday at the King of the Hill Lake Tahoe Master Track & Field Meet. (See complete results here.) Half-mile
Paul Wang, shooting for Dave Peeters Photography, has more than 330 images online here from the May 23 Striders Meet of Champions at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. Very nice job. Great variety of running, jumping and throwing
Monty Hacker cites stress of WMA duties. Linda Pain, wife of masters track founder David Pain, has shared Monty Hacker’s letter of resignation of May 27. Monty became acting president of World Masters Athletics following the death of Cesare Beccalli
Don’t believe everything you read, especially if it comes in the form of email dotted with a bunch of yellow emoticons. On May 12, I reported that the masters track “reality show” called “T.R.A.C.K. Live” was slated for fall telecast
From now on, Nadine O’Connor will be known here as Izzy. Olympic vault champ Yelena “Izzy” Isinbayeva of Russia has raised the open world record by a fraction dozens of times, and world champ Nadine is evoking her younger comrade.
Ed Riewerts isn’t a household name in masters track. Give him time. Although he turned 50 in March, he’s been throwing the discus for only two years. But this season has been a breakthrough for Ed, who lives in the Dallas suburb of
Although the Chuck McMahon meet this year was canceled, another meet in San Diego is welcoming masters tracksters. The event, called the San Diego-Imperial USATF Open Championships, will be held June 14 at Point Loma Nazarene University, whose track overlooks