German-born Irie Hill turned 40 on January 16, but didn’t take long to claim her first age-group record. The key word is claim. She didn’t actually beat the record. Now a British citizen, Irie jumped 3.50 meters (11-5 3/4) Saturday
Last Monday, M85 multi-event and multi-sport star Al “Rocky” Rosen was honored on the floorof the Maryland Legislature. Rocky’s motto is: “If you can dream it, you can become it.” And his friends attest to his inspirational presence, including Keith
Tony Young, still trying to be the fastest miler in his household, clocked an ungodly 4:13.25 this morning at a University of Washington indoor meet to beat the listed WMA indoor mile world record of 4:21.90 by Albin Swenson in
Nicky Cox of Goway Travel Groups in Vancouver, British Columbia, is the point lady in promoting her agency’s tours to the World Masters Games in Sydney, Australia, in October 2009. How serious is she? Well, she writes that “we are
I’m on the mailing list of the National Senior Games Association — which is organizing the National Senior Olympics this summer in the S.F. Bay Area. And today’s email has this intriguing declaration: “The NSGA has announced that 4th place
Stacy Dragila, who turns 38 in March, took second to the Beijing silver medalist tonight at the Millrose Games in New York City. Stacy’s consolation prize was setting a W35 world indoor record in the vault. She cleared 4.61 meters
Although boomers invented sex, we didn’t launch masters track. We’re reminded of that as we await tonight’s Millrose Games, which will have masters relays, as usual. How usual? The 4×4 relays (at least for men) go back to 1980, according
This issue never dies. We’ve been debating it almost since the beginning of time (or this blog began). The latest explosion came in comments for this false start of a blog entry. (Here’s another lively discussion.) So let’s see what
Jim Sorensen, Alisa Harvey and Nolan Shaheed — men’s and women’s elite winners at last weekend’s Hartshorne masters miles plus the age-graded champ — have replied to my quickie queries on their New York minutes. They expand on the issue
In this report from across the Pond, we learn: “Stornoway’s Alastair Dunlop set a world masters indoor age 55 record of 4min 24.39sec in the 1,500 metres at the Scottish closed championships at the Kelvin Hall on Saturday (Jan. 17).”
Mary Roman, a W70 multi-eventer in Connecticut featured on this blog before, has another record. Competing at the 40th Dartmouth Relays three weeks ago in Hanover, N.H., Mary put the 3-kilogram shot 8.25 meters (27-1) to beat the listed American indoor
So Lahti worlds this summer is a little dear (as the Brits say)? Then c’mon up to Kamloops in 2010, as the Canadians might say. The Kamloops world indoor masters championships now has a website for your surfing pleasure. But