Jock Jocoy last competed in 2001, in M75 sprints. Jock Jocoy, a race-horse doctor and former masters decathlon record-holder who competed into his mid-70s, died Saturday at his home in Southern California, says this report and old friends. In the
It’s 5 days to Christmas or Hanukkah, and you don’t know what to buy your running, jumping or throwing dad, wife or neighbor! What to do? Have we got a store for you! Thanks to my son Bobby and his
Coach Ross Dunton of Tennessee has emailed a newsletter that lists 15 men and 10 women as nominees for the USATF Masters Hall of Fame. Among the shoo-ins are sprinter Roger Pierce and all-around runner Marie-Louise Michelsohn. Tom Langenfeld and
Don’t trust anyone under 35. If you really want to be a serious runner, wait till you’re 35. Although I hesitate to discuss roadies on a masters track blog, I can’ resist crowing about the latest masters superstar: Haile Gebrselassie,
They’re up. Nearly 400 photos taken by my wife, Chris, and moi tell the story of last month’s Spokane nationals unlike any written narrative. Click here for series of shots, including Liz Palmer step-for-step with Joy Upshaw-Margerum in the 80-meter
Mirko Jalava of Finland is considered one of the world’s top track statisticians, but I’m having doubts about his fact-checking (or at least keyboarding). In Roger Ruth’s latest data dump — searching for over-35 athletes on Mirko’s 2008 season lists
David O’Meara, 45, had barely returned home to Sarasota when he sent me a note thanking me for supporting his mile quest (which included his 20th sub-5 mile Sunday at Fifth Avenue). (See him in a cute NYC video here.)
The German track Web site reports that 5,000 spectators waved white handkerchiefs in an emotional farewell gesture yesterday to M40 Jeff Hartwig, who turned 41 today. Jeff apparently competed in his final elite vault competition at Aachen. Despite low temps
We love to see masters athletes promoted at work, especially when they’re track coaches. (Gives them more opportunities to train!) So we’re delighted to pass along the news that Sara Davis, a national-class sprinter who competed at 2006 and 2007
Roger Ruth ranked the track 10K in his latest review of masters-age (over-35) athletes on the 2008 seasonal world lists. And he notes: “Wow! (Haile) Gebrselassie ranks even higher than Derek Miles did in the pole vault. Can any master-age
Here’s more proof that when you seek, you shall find. Roger Ruth has identified two dozen men and women over 35 on the open world lists at 100 meters. “As I wrote in the initial post of this series,” Roger
Only men’s marks have been posted so far, but the USATF site now lists these results from the Sept. 6 USATF National Masters Ultraweight Pentathlon Championships in Seattle. Only three women were entered, so results for them shouldn’t be too