Nolan Shaheed has miles of smiles. Poor Tucker Bass. He’s a freshman cross country kid at San Diego Mesa College — a local junior college. Yesterday he entered the 800 at the Occidental Distance Carnival south of Los Angeles and
Records, and John Hinton, deserve more respect. John Hinton, then 45, ran a 4:20.18 mile on Jan. 19, 2008. Nobody disputes this. But did he set a world indoor record? Well, yeah. The listed M45 age-group world indoor record was
Nobody can touch Doug Smith of Canada for ways of promoting masters track. He has 15,000 photos on his ontariomasters.ca Web site, produces a newsy email newsletter and helps organize the group’s mini-meets. Now he has a YouTube video, about 7
As noted earlier, four world bests were set in the indoor heptathlon over the weekend in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Although USATF holds the masters lasix hep, no official world records exist for this two-day event because WMA contests the one-day pentathlon at its indoor championships.
Chuck Shields reports an American record in the W50 indoor national 4×800 club relay Sunday. The quartet of Wendi Glassman, Mimi Newcomer, Cheryl Bellaire and Phyllis Yester ran 11:37.15 at the USATF Mid-Atlantic Open and Masters Indoor Championships at Ursinus
Record turnouts are great. But the Landover masters nationals this month will be severely tested, if the detailed meet schedule is any indication. At Penn Relays, we’re used to seeing an assembly line of races — one after another by
Records are supposed to fall by tenths of seconds or by inches. Tell that to W60 Myrle Mensey of St. Louis. Competing at the USATF Midwest Regional Meet in Kenosha on Sunday, Myrle demolished two American records. In the 12-pound weight
Mary Jo Alexander, meet director of Stanford’s Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational, writes: “As you know, the track & field world suffered a great loss last month when legendary coach Payton Jordan passed away at the age of 91. As a
My apologies to Corinne Debaets, a W45 miler. A few days ago, I touted a world indoor record of 4:38 for 1500 meters by the UK’s Clare Elms at the British masters nationals. Turns out Clare didn’t set a WR,
Bart Stagg of the Southern Association says his Southwest regional indoor meet Saturday in Baton Rouge drew 79 athletes, ranging from the kidlets (including a 9-year-old who reportedly set a pole vault world record) to 98-year-old throwing stud Trent Lane.
M55 champion Bill Murray shares this link to results of the USATF National Masters Indoor Heptathlon Championships at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. But in looking to see if any hep records were set at the meet Saturday and Sunday,
Last month, Brian Pilcher of Northern California won the USATF M50 cross country title in Derwood, Maryland. Is Brian still hot? Uhm, yes. The letsrun.com message board reports: “I would like to acknowledge age 52 phenom Brian Pilcher, who ran