Mike Soule is our Santa today. A champion M55 pole vaulter living in Minnesota, Mike has posted this series of videos on how to weight-train in the off-season for geezer vaulting. In fact, he calls himself vaultingeezer on his MySpace
Dave Ortman, a.k.a. Perspiring Minds, who can run fast without warming up, sent me this link to a stretching article in his local Seattle paper. Dave wrote: “Old habits die hard.” But old tracksters love to experiment. So there. The
Say what you want about the “cash awards program” Mike Daniels is promoting, as a masters sprinter, Mike has chutzpah. In a blog he started today, he announces: “I hope to finish the year in 2009 as #1 in the
On Dec. 28, the Potomac Valley Track Club will hold an all-comers meet at the site of the USATF masters indoor nationals in March 2009 in Landover, Maryland. Check out this letter from Joe Burno, president of the Maryland Masters
The masters men’s and women’s races at Spokane cross country club nationals were photographed Dec. 13, and now a pair of online galleries are chilling reminders of the flip side of 2006 Charlotte track nationals. In other words, the ladies
World Masters Athletics is unhappy about rumors of no vacancies at Lahti worlds in 2009. South Africa’s Monty Hacker, acting prez of WMA, writes: “At a meeting held in Lahti with Virpi Hurri and Tiina Kovisto of the Lahti Organising
According to World Masters Athletics, the Age-Graded Tables were devised to score multi-events like the decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon and various weight events. Essentially, you convert your old-fogie mark into a “corresponding Open” (age 20-30) mark and plug the new mark
Mike McNees: our new go-to guy? USATF CEO Doug Logan announced yesterday that Michael A. McNees will be the chief operating officer of the organization. He’ll “supervise USATF’s administration, operations and marketing departments; coordinate long-range planning; act as the principal
Dara Torres made a masters splash in Beijing: three medals in the pool. As predicted here two months ago, Olympic swim star Dara Torres is Masters Athlete magazine’s Masters Athlete of the Year. Editor Sean Callahan wrote: “Torres . .
USATF has posted this scorecard and summary of rule changes approved, rejected or tabled at the recent annual meeting in Reno. I mentioned a few in the run-up to Reno. The amendment proposals originally numbered 108. Sixty-two were accepted or
Like many parts of the USA, here in San Diego it’s been wet and miserable the past three or four days. (Heck, I haven’t even taken Buddy to the dog park since a week ago Monday!) So any opportunity to
Diane Sherrer, my favorite running columnist in Ithaca, N.Y., writes: “Entries are available now for the 42nd annual Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile, to take place Jan. 24, at Cornell University’s Barton Hall. Time to be announced. The event is held