Our masters track friend Pete Magill (forgiven his off-track lapses) won his age group (for the umpteenth time) at the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships on Saturday in Spokane. He did it in the snow, too. Pete reported on
Gotta love this. Joe Koza of Saskatchewan resumed track competition a couple years ago. His previous meet? Back in 1955. A local paper reported: “Two years ago, Joe and Marilyn were asked to compete in the dancing competition at a
Reporting from Japan on the longevity of folks there, a British writer has a nice story that opens with this: “Like most outstanding athletes, Takashi Shimokawara has an unvaryingly strict regimen of training and exercise. It begins before breakfast with
Jim will skip this weekend’s club XC nationals in Spokane. Last we heard from Jim Sorensen, he was trying to forget an injury-plagued 2008 after an amazing 2007 that saw him set a bunch of M40 middle-distance records. Now the
On Monday morning, masters around the country received this note from an M55 sprinter in Fairfield, Ohio: “My name is Michael Daniels, a masters runner like many of you. I mostly compete in Ohio and Kentucky. When I am not
Bob was happy in his USATF element: the 2006 annual meeting in Indianapolis. (This report originally appeared on Masters Athlete Daily online. Thanks for your contributions!) Reno’s daily newspaper and local TV stations treated it like another traffic fatality —
Jeff Davison wants to change the world — one hurdle relay at a time. An M50 hurdler from Laguna Hills, California, Jeff has a passion for the shuttles, which he (and I) loved running as preps. Mostly unknown outside the
Four-time Olympian Joetta Clark-Diggs ran her 800 PR in 1998 — a nifty 1:57.84 when she was 36. Last week she got credit for an American age-group record. Nice. The audacity of hope! Also a perversion of history. Her sister-in-law
Gotta head to the airport in a few minutes. My reports from the USATF annual meeting have barely scratched the surface. I have two notebooks filled with tidbits I have yet to disgorge. So here are some quick highlights. USATF
As expected, John Hinton’s M45 indoor mile and Kay Gynn’s W55 outdoor pole vault mark — which both bettered listed world records — were rejected as American age-group records. Today’s general session of USATF (which I didn’t attend since I
Gary Snyder, elected to a four-year term as USATF Masters T&F chairman, says he’ll start keeping a blog sometime in January. This is huge. Although Gary and previous national chairs have been reachable by email and have written columns for
Elite masters quarter-milers and milers, rejoice! Your events have been chosen as masters exhibitions at the USATF open nationals. The rest of you, especially field eventers, can go back to your cave. At yesterday’s Masters T&F Committee meeting at the