Stefan Waltermann at Spokane nationals. Get ready for a new Age-Graded Tables. As we telegraphed in December, WMA is rolling out a new set of tables that treat some age groups more fairly. The AGT make it possible for multi-eventers to
M40 David Nash won today’s masters 800-meter run at the Drake Relays, defending his 2008 crown and negotiating two laps in Des Moines in a field of 19 runners. He won in 2:00.72, a couple seconds off his recent bests.
M40 sprinter Scott Meier — a coach and teacher in Farmington, Minnesota — is Rocky Balboa in spikes. See him run stairs, pull a sled, take block starts. In masters track, he’s not quite national-class. But man does he have heart. He
Doug “Bubba” Sparks writes of the Drake Relays masters vault: “The meet conditions were fantastic with a nice day and warm tailwind – 75 (degrees) at jump time. Sometimes when conditions are really good it throws your timing off just
Hometown submaster David Lindenburg, 31, won the event, but the story of the Drake Relays masters vault was NH’s by potential record-setters M45 Paul Babits and M55 Jeff Kingstad. I’m unsure of the conditions, but Paul and Jeff apparently passed too
Nearly two dozen men between the ages of 40 and 59 make up the field tomorrow in the masters 800 at the 100th Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. Notable is the Midwestern makeup of the entrants. All except mile
Nearly three weeks after the fact, I’ve received these results for the Al Siddons Games in Santa Ana, Calfornia. The annual meet, long known as the John Ward Masters Games, was April 5 at Santa Ana College. It’s now named
USATF today formally announced our annual Masters Athletes of the Year — Bill Collins, Kathy Martin and Kay Glynn. Finally. Indy was only five weeks late doing so. (And it buried the info in a News & Notes, rather than giving our folks
How cool is this? Not only do the masters vaulters jumping Thursday at the 100th Drake Relays rate their own press release, but they also get a celebrity MC — none other than M40 world record holder and 2008 Olympian
The meet ended a month ago, but now I see a new batch of 157 shots from “Day 2” of Landover posted on the USATF page devoted to indoor nationals. Great images of Bill Collins, Neni Lewis, Rita Hanscom, Mary Harada,
Carmel, the new webmistress. Carmel Papworth-Barnum loves taking risks, venturing outside her comfort zone. (She married a world-class sprinter a couple decades her senior, after all.) And she moved from her home in southern Australia to northern Nevada. Now Carmel, the former
Mt. SAC was great, but it wasn’t the only major meet to feature masters. Up at Hayward Field, masters ran the 100 and 800 at the UCLA-Oregon dual meet Saturday. Results are posted here. Perhaps the top mark was an