Cindi Blevins, track meet director of last week’s Huntsman World Senior Games in St. George, Utah, graciously sent us this results file. It lists everyone who competed at Huntsman, not just the medalists (and the metric marks as well). She
In February 2007, we reported great news: USATF Masters T&F would get a bundle of extra money. National Masters T&F Chairman Gary Snyder said: “This might bring our total revenues to about $76,000 — a far cry from the $30,000
Rod Jett entered the Hornet Invitational last March in Sacramento and became the oldest man to break 14.5 seconds in the 110 hurdles set at 42 inches. His clocking of 14.39 at age 41 went unremarked (by me at least).
When I was a kid, sprint training was simple: Run cross country in the fall, do repeat 200s/300s in the spring. Run like hell in meets. Rinse and repeat. But now that I’m 54, I’m conflicted as hell — with
Dr. Dave Neumann, an M45 sprinter living in Rhode Island, put together a love poem to masters track in the form of this 13-minute slide show with music and quotes. A member of the Boston-based MassVelocity Track Club, Dave used
Jane Mead Peter, sister of track historian and masters athlete Louise Tricard, writes that a burial service for Louise will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida. “In lieu of flowers,” Janes
Vaulters make a pilgrimage to Reno every January. Now a similar event is planned for throwers.This January, weightfolk are invited to descend on the Anaheim Convention Center (near Disneyland) for the first annual National Throws Summit. “USATF-sanctioned competitions will be
Gary Snyder’s USATF Masters T&F Executive Committee (and maybe others) will be deciding in the next several weeks where outdoor nationals will go. (See this post for the news.) Usually, this pick is made at the annual meeting in December.
Wolfgang Ritte and Christine Müller took events to new heights in 2008. The Eurovets Web site reports that German M55 vaulter Wolfgang Ritte and Swiss W50 multi-eventer Christine Müller have been named IAAF Masters Athletes of the Year, based on
Ross Dunton’s email newsletter today carried this provocative but strangely worded note: “2009 USATF MASTERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS NOTE: The meet be held in Clermont, FL. The sponsors have decided not to have the meet. I will let you know as
Olympian Jay Silvester, a discus legend who had the bad luck of throwing against Al Oerter, made one of his rare masters track forays last week at the Huntsman World Senior Games, throwing 157-3 in the M70 age group to
At last year’s USATF convention in Hawaii, a three-man committee chose a relatively unknown distance runner as the USATF Masters Athlete of the Year. A firestorm erupted. Why didn’t they pick Phil Raschker, the world masters Athlete of the Year?