Marie-Louise ran at Spokane nationals. Marie-Louise Michelsohn says conditions were chilly, “about 50 degrees (with a) scotch mist,” but had no problem demolishing the listed W65 American record in the track 10,000 yesterday. She clocked 44:47.58 at the USATF Pacific
Running pain-free at last and with help from an aiding breeze, Nadine O’Connor, 67, raised her own W65 world record in the pole vault yesterday to 3.13 meters (10-3 1/4) at the Southern California Striders Meet of Champions at Orange
Carl Wallin ready to rock the ring again. Carl Wallin, a legendary field events coach at Dartmouth in New Hampshire and a 1989 world masters shot put champion, is retiring at the end of this season, and the big questions
Europe must be track and field heaven. Latest proof is a meet they held in Basel, Switzerland, a week ago. Sprints and hurdles only. All age groups. Odds distances — including 60 meters, 150 and 300. And it was outdoors
Benita Fitzgerald Mosley: Oly champ Masters track may not benefit directly from USATF’s selection of Benita Fitzgerald Mosley as its new chief of sport performance, “responsible for overseeing all of USATF’s High Performance and Sport Science programs.” But if USATF gets more
I’m probably naive, but I think masters athletes who coach have some kind of built-in advantage. While we desk jockeys toil for eight hours a day, coaches are outdoors training with their kids. One part-time coach is M40 national champion Richard Holmes. And
Andy Hecker, risking further USATF Dog Housedom, has written me about the Landover results and timing mess. His take? Blame the software underlying the timing operation, called Hy-Tek. It’s the industry standard, but it’s notoriously glitchy and hard to customize for
No surprise here. As noted two weeks ago, WMA has NOT chosen meet venues for the 2012 indoor and 2013 outdoor worlds. Today, the WMA Web site declared: “WMA has been made aware of some public statements made relating to World
Sandy Pashkin, multi-tasker and ex-runner. As George Mathews notes in a recent comment, USATF records czar Sandy Pashkin of Oregon is a candidate for vice president-stadia of World Masters Athletics. Her only rival at this point is Serge Beckers of Belgium.
Pete Magill finally has some competition in the masters runner Q&A League. Carmel Papworth Barnum, the former editor of National Masters News, just posted a wonderful chat with W40 miler Aeron Arlin Genet. It’s No. 6 in a running series.
In a blog entry dated yesterday, USATF Masters T&F Committee Chairman Gary Snyder admits that final results posted on usatf.org are what they are, and “a number of events will never have a time and are indicated by NT. If
With three months to go, the USA Masters National Throws Championships finally has its entry process straightened out. Here’s the entry page, which until very recently was messed up or hard to find. (I wrote about this a couple weeks