An illegal wind of 4.1 mps (about 9 mph) helped Steve Robbins clock an essentially solo 25.36 in the 200-meter dash at Day 2 of the Hayward Classic yesterday. The video below is among 22 posted at runnerspace from the
Hayward Field has seen the fastest (9.68) race ever run and now one of the slowest. But it’s still a world age-group record. At Day 1 of the Hayward Classic yesterday in Eugene, Bill Lauderback of Bend, Oregon, chopped a
It was like pulling polar bear teeth, but we finally have an unofficial, subject-to-change time schedule for Spokane masters nationals — which starts in only five days. The Games Committee headed by Jim Flanik finally relented and made the sked
What does this have to do with masters track? Nothing. But a masters sprinter friend of mine shared the link, so there. You’ll get a kick out of it — even if you weren’t born between 1946 and 1964, the
The listserve of the USATF National Officials Committee reminds us of a looming deadline: Sept. 4 is the last chance to propose changes to USATF rules. Every other year is a rule-change year. (It alternates with bylaws-change years.) Proposals will
It won’t be Eugene 2003 (with a turnout of 1,400), but the 2008 edition of the USATF Masters Outdoor National Track & Field Championships next week will boast plenty of horses. Here’s a sneak preview of the press release (updated
Donna Lawrence beams after taking masters 200 at Trials. Video cameras weren’t allowed at Hayward Field during the Olympic Trials, lest some aunt of a women’s hammer thrower shoot some footage that might show up on YouTube and cause NBC
Rex Harvey of Ohio, our former decathlon star, has thrown his hat in the ring for the presidency of World Masters Athletics, he’s informed me. The vote will come in the General Assembly at Lahti, Finland, in 2009 — midway
A ladies pole vault record dominated headlines from yesterday’s Monaco meet, but It was Danny McFarlane who had the most impressive mark. Leading most of the lap, the 36-year-old Jamaican won the 400 hurdles in a season best 48.39, just
I live for these stories. Under the headline “Man, 80, reprimanded for escalator run,” UPI reports out of Farnham, England: “An 80-year-old former Olympic hurdle runner said a Farnham, England, store has threatened to ban him if he is caught
Orville Rogers, our “Faces in the Crowd” kid last spring, ran the mile in 10:56.61 Saturday at the Texas Masters Championships, held at Coppell High School. Not bad for 90. It’s better than the listed M90 world age-group record of
Ivar Söderlind of Sweden, one of the best masters statisticians in the world, reports on the world, European and meet records set after only three days of the Eurovets championships in Slovenia. See his compilation here. Ivar writes: “After three