Four months ago, we summarized a 17-page grievance filed against the youth-centric leadership of the USATF Colorado Association. Today the verdict was made public. As far as I can tell from this decision of the hearing panel (which included masters
Pete Magill picks his races carefully. So does fellow M45 distance star Tony Young. Over the weekend, racing 1,000 miles apart, they produced the same result: age-group records. A week after lowering his own outdoor 3000 AR, Pete, 46, ran
Nolan Shaheed of Pasadena finally has some M55 competition. Yesterday at the SISU Foundation 800 Meter Challenge Race at Mesa Community College, part of the Grand Canyon State Games, Nolan, 58, had to work to hold off Horace Grant of
Allen Johnson’s bid to win Olympic medals 12 years apart is on track. AJ, the 1996 Atlanta champion, took second to Athens champ and world record holder Xiang Liu of China today in the 60-meter hurdles at the IAAF worlds
Masters mole Keith Mathis reports another M50 indoor high jump record by Bruce McBarnette. “At the Mid-Atlantic USATF 2008 Open and Masters Indoor Championship meet (Saturday) at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa., Bruce . . . jumped 1.93 (6-4) to break
Romary Rifka of Mexico, who turned 37 on December 23, 2007, set a Mexican indoor record of 1.90 (6-2 3/4) in high jump qualifying today at IAAF indoors. She’s three months older than Serbian Dragutin Topic, who is merely the
Better late than never. According to the NYRR club’s results site, Poland’s Zofia Wieciorkowska clocked a 1500 in 4:40.4 to beat the listed W45 world record of 4:41.67 by Spain’s Aurora Perez in 2006 — as telegraphed a week ago.
Dragutin Topic, who turns 37 in five days, cleared 2.27 (7-5 1/4) today on his third try to make the finals at IAAF indoor worlds in Valencia, Spain. He’s the oldest high jumper in meet history. A month ago, he
In the high jump, 2 meters separates the supermen from the men. That’s 6 feet, 6 3/4 inches to us mortals. Last Sunday, Italy’s Marco Segatel cleared 2.00 less than a month before turning 46. That’s a European indoor record,
Chiropractor and trainer Tim McCrossen, 41, won the masters exhibition 60-meter dash at the Boston open nationals last month. But perhaps the toughest challenge was just getting to the meet.Tim wrote me: “It was rough for us to https://www.aasfoundation.org/cenforce-2000-mg/ get
Former WR distance legend Henry Rono, who turned 56 last month, is a constant presence on a letsrun.com message board. And a recent post by Henry is very sad. Someone asked if he would be competing at April’s Carlsbad 5K,
Last July, I reported on a reality TV show concept revolving around masters track — up till age 52. Hadn’t heard much since. But now the show is a go for production. And the folks behind it have posted a