Dr. Vonda Wright Dr. Vonda Wright is a fellow blogger at Masters Athlete Daily. Unlike me, though, she knows what’s she’s talking about. She’s a medical doctor and director of PRIMA — Performance and Research Initiative for Masters Athletes. She
M40 Aaron Thigpen and M35 Jeff Laynes made their younger rivals eat all-weather dust today in the 100-meter dash at the Stanford Invitational. Jeff advanced to tomorrow’s final. Here are the prelims results — showing a 10.48 legal time for
Folks organizing the track-TV reality show, apparently swamped with emailed questions, have announced a “radio show” series to answer them. Here’s a note sent to “members and contestants”: “We will be having a weekly radio show so that you may
Orville Rogers, 90, got some well-deserved ink from his local Dallas paper yesterday, and he’s one modest stud. Orville told Debbie Fetterman of his Boston WR exploits: “I don’t really know how I did it. It was only three or
Who holds the W40 American record for 1500 meters outdoors? Let’s see. The USATF record site lists the 4:32.73 by Joan Nesbit in 2002. But wait! Many folks say it’s Alisa Harvey’s 4:26.49 at Penn Relays in 2006. Now comes
Peter Taylor, our grandmaster meet announcer, writes: “I was glad to see the comments from various readers about the Boston experience and my role in it, and I do believe I had a pretty good meet. Without Larry Libow (my
Check out this video from last weekend’s Boston masters nationals. Starts out with Bob Weiner of the USATF Masters T&F Media Committee talking up the program, and includes a short chat with Phil Raschker, just after she won the 400
USATF usually goes with a masters trackster for Athlete of the Week following masters nationals and worlds, but this was a pleasant surprise: “INDIANAPOLIS — Orville Rogers has been named USATF’s Athlete of the Week after setting a world and
By Ken Stone When Larry Barnum stood on the awards platform at Riccione last summer to receive his world championship golds in the 400 and 4×400 relay, his wife, Carmel, wasn’t present to cheer and show her support. She couldn’t
Carmel and Larry’s January 2007 wedding didn’t guarantee the Aussie bride a home in America. Carmel Papworth-Barnum and her husband of 15 months, Larry Barnum, have had more on their minds besides training, competition and producing National Masters News. Like
Oh well. Just goes to show what name recognition (and a more popular sport) gets you. The Amateur Athletic Union’s Sullivan Award went to some football type named Tebow today. Phil “The Legend” Raschker, our 61-going-on-21 superstar, was a finalist
Track TV, a masters track reality show starting production soon, has extended its deadline to Monday, April 21. More important, they’ve opened the field to athletes as old as 72. The previous max was 52. (Sorry, 73-year-olds, you’re outta luck.)