World throws champion George Mathews in his latest column for National Masters News suggested that usatf.org host a “Sharing Bulletin Board” for athletes who could use a roommate or a ride to a meet. I thought it was a great
Henry Rono, 56, whose training and running we’ve been following for several years, says he graduated from college yesterday — three decades after setting a bunch of distance world records while competing for Washington State University. Good for him! Apparently,
Last week, we noted how indoor marks attributed to M40 sprinter Steve Bunn were faster than what official results showed. Those false indoor marks on mastersrankings.com have now been corrected, rankings chairman John Seto reports. In addition, a 10.98 time
Julia Ann Dudley, producer of the T.R.A.C.K. Live reality TV show gearing up for production, says the deadline for entry is now May 10. Today she wrote current entrants: “We were in Mt. Sac in April where many people were
Masters athletes are risk-takers by nature. Now they can take chances with their money as well. The Spokane masters nationals will hold the traditional athletes dinner at the Northern Quest casino, an arm of the Kalispel tribe. This isn’t a
Track historian Louise Mead Tricard, a masters sprinter in her early 70s who also has run the New York City Marathon, is hospitalized in Florida and battling cancer. She has Internet access but has been very brief in her notes.
Barbara Jordan: longtime hurdles champion Masters Hall of Famer Barbara Jordan is such a regular winner at masters nationals and worlds, people take her for granted. Fortunately, she’s properly prized in her native Vermont, where she recently was named Athlete
Larry Jessee’s M40 outdoor world vault record is no more. Jeff Hartwig, 40, officially erased Jessee’s supposed 5.50 (18-0 1/2) M40 world record Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa. Jeff wrote me: “Took care of it this weekend up at Drake.
Willie Gault turns 48 in September, but forget about him biding his time till M50. At the Tiny Lister Classic on Saturday at Cal State Los Angeles, he ran 200 meters in a legal 21.80 seconds, demolishing Kevin Morning’s listed
Herb Jones writes: “I’m the assistant track and field coach at Mills College in Oakland, and we are finishing our first season and hosting our first open meet this Saturday, May 3, in Oakland at Skyline High School. Could you
Flotrack has posted videos of pretty much all the masters events at Penn over the weekend, including Sprint Force America’s M70 4×100 world record. A monster field of men and women ran the 4×4 together, with several WRs (including an
Cornell Stephenson captures masters track in new novel. Cornell Stephenson, who five years ago won four M40 sprint medals at Puerto Rico worlds, made masters history this spring. He didn’t run a relay leg or set a record. (In fact,