With the help of around 10 donors, who chipped in $25 to $50 to raise the requested $500, Peter Taylor was brought to Boston again to announce the USATF Masters Indoor National Championships, reports Steve Nearman, who organized the fund
The recurring bane of masters track reared its ugly head at worlds, it appears. Laps were miscounted in distance races in France, according to a Forum post by a friend in Hong Kong who goes by the handle Quick Silver
Orville Rogers is a rocket. At 90 years old, he torched a pair of age-group world records at Boston masters nationals, which concluded today. USATF’s Jill Geer did another nice roundup story for her Day 3 report. (Results are here.)
Amid all the attention back East, we Left Coast masters also have our eyes on the prize — the Mt. San Antonio College Relays and the masters exhibition races Sunday, April 20. World champion M60 sprinter Stan Whitley is organizing
Got back from France last night. I did not bring my laptop with me so was incommunicato with email. I’m sure you saw the results, but they are misleading. I witnessed one of the best jumps I’ve ever seen anyone
They outta call it MastersTube, for all the masters track videos you can find on YouTube. The latest is this clip of Charles Allie becoming the oldest man to run the indoor 200 under 25 seconds. Yesterday in Boston, Charles
Well, Phil Raschker, 61, didn’t have to vault to make her mark in Boston. Running the 400 in 68.34, she set yet another world record. It was nearly a solo effort, since second place was 1:36.57. And the USATF news
Cheryl Treworgy, aka Shalane Flanagan’s mom, is shooting at Boston, and 10 great photos have been posted on the USATF Web site already. Sadly, though, the Boston Globe and Boston Herald seem not to have published a single story about
W55 vaulter Kay Glynn and W45 thrower Neni Lewis upped their own world records today as the USATF masters indoor nationals kicked off in Boston. USATF media czar Jill Geer has already posted a Day 1 wrapup. Complete results for
Jearl Miles-Clark, who competed in four Olympics in the 400, 800 or relays, has dropped out of this weekend’s Boston masters indoor nationals, according to a brief note from Jill Geer, USATF chief media maven, who lives in Boston and
Laura Barre, 38, may be embarrassed by all the hoopla. She even feels guilty about leaving her work and family for 10 days in France. But so what. Laura is an inspiration to many, and a world champion in the
In an article headlined “Fran was a champion of human courage,” the South Manchester Reporter in England recalls the late M45 sprinter Fran Scott, whose death touched many. The new article provides more details on his illness, and it concludes