USATF has posted results for Saturday’s National Masters Weight Pentathlon Championships. Click here for the page. In it we learn that Gloria Krug, 77, of the Philadelphia Masters TC scored 3,877 points — which smashes the listed American age-group record
The People’s Republic of China used to be called Red China. And deservedly so. They should be red-faced with shame over how they treat masters track! With 1.3 billion people and a booming economy, you’d expect their masters track movement
Last year, I noted how the San Diego Senior Olympics wouldn’t have a track meet for the first time. A meet was promised in 2008, and it’s a go for Saturday, September 13, at scenic Point Loma Nazarene University (not
USATF has yet to post results from yesterday’s National Masters Weight Pentathlon Championships. Not a surprise. But still a shame. Unless a massive Internet or computer crash is involved, there’s no excuse for dilly-dallying on such results. The information is
I’m sorry. I’m an utter failure. I’ve tried everything but put a gun to my head. I can’t seem to accomplish a simple task on your behalf. I can’t get the minutes from the USATF Masters T&F Committee meetings last
Dave Ortman up in Seattle, recovering from his Spokane title exertions, has composed another masters parody to a pop melody. He writes: “Here’s another jingle for the Track Poetry corner. Note that (Amy) Winehouse’s lyrics (from the song “Rehab”) didn’t
My sportswriter friend Don Norcross wrote this nice story about Bud Held for today’s Union-Tribune. But the paper didn’t have room to run the photos my wife, Chris, and I shot at Spokane, where Bud raised the M80 world record
This is what happens when organizers of masters nationals don’t publicize their dates expeditiously. Because of contract wrangling, Clermont, Florida, only recently disclosed July 9-12, 2009, as dates for the USATF outdoor masters nationals. That weekend, however, had been claimed
So many masters in the Olympics, so little time. Jeff Hartwig didn’t reach the finals in the vault. But his 5.55 jump yesterday (18-2 1/2) remains an amazing feat at forty. The lone American in tomorrow’s final is 35, however.
From USATF: “In the women’s 20 km race walk, Team USA’s 44-year-old, first-time Olympian Joanne Dow (Manchester, N.H.) walked the fastest time by an American woman ever in international competition. The mother of two placed 31st in 1:34:15, behind winner
At 5:40 a.m. Pacific/8:40 a.m. Eastern today Jeff Hartwig, our 40-year-old masters superstar, jumps in the men’s vault prelims in Beijing. Earliest results and discussion will be on Becca Gillespy’s site. Jeff says in a recent story that “If I
The 2009 USATF masters outdoor nationals will be held July 9-12 at the National Training Center in Clermont, Florida, according to this hastily posted stub of an official site. (Note the reference to the meet being July 7-12 at one