We’ve missed sprint great Kevin Morning in recent years, but he’s begun coming back. Almost two years ago he had surgery on his left knee (torn meniscus). “I now have arthritis, but I am able to move pretty freely,” Kevin writes from
Ski jumps loom over track in Lahti, Finland. Unless you want my tortoise legs anchoring Team USA’s M55 relays at Lahti worlds, you’d better get your entries in. No kidding. A glance at the Status of Entries page for my
Considering that Australia can make a claim to inventing masters track, this came as a surprise: They’ve just inducted their first class into a national Masters Hall of Fame. Among the inductees: John Gilmour, who tells the story of beating a
After several complaints, and the intervention of top officials at Santa Ana College, meet director Miriam Mitzel has issued this new set of results from the April 5 Al Siddons Games. Some question marks remain, but she promised to fix these
Complete and accurate results of the Landover masters nationals apparently will never be known. That’s my reading of today’s blog posting by Gary Snyder, USATF masters track national chairman. He promises that the order of finish will be correct —
In the wake of the two masters WRs at Penn over the weekend, I had the pleasure of chatting via email with one of the record-setters. He noted, in passing, that Houston Elite’s M55 4×4 team had indeed set a
Last year on the Fourth of July, one-time British Olympian Roald Bradstock lived a Yank’s javelin fantasy. He threw in the U.S. Olympic Trials. At age 46, he was long a U.S. citizen — but not done with the sport.
Penn didn’t have a monopoly on masters speed. At the Brutus Hamilton Invitational in Berkeley, 44-year-old Aaron Thigpen ran the 100 in 10.93 and deuce in 22.30. (He’s on the far right in this video.) At the UCSD Triton Invitational
Averaging 55.27 a leg (well under their age), the Houston Elite team of Charles Allie, Bill Collins, Horace Grant and George Haywood today shattered the listed M55 world record in the 4×400 at the Penn Relays. They might have gone faster,
Replicating his Landover nationals double, where he won the 800 and mile, M45 Scott Hartley again turned back John https://somabest.com/side-effects/ Hinton and won the Drake Relays masters mile today. Scott clocked 4:25.77 to defeat John, who was 6 seconds back.
The Central Park TC quartet of Randy Frey, Ben James, Tony Fulton and Val Barnwell wowed the crowd at yesterday’s Penn Relays, beating the listed M50 world record in the 4×100 relay. CPTC clocked 44.47 to take down the 44.99 by
In yet another wide-ranging superduper interview, blogger Pete Magill gets masters track legend Earl Fee, 80, to detail his dietary supplements. Earl, who has set 50 world age-group records, says: “I take calcium and magnesium in one mixture. I take co-enzyme 10.