Alisa Harvey is serious about qualifying for the Olympic Trials at age 42. Friday night at Penn State University, she scorched the 800 in 2:07.08, nipping her own W40 American indoor record of 2:07.23 — set two years ago! Here
Will the men’s masters exhibition 60 and women’s 400 at USATF open indoor nationals have empty lanes? That seems to be the worry of Mark Cleary, organizing these races at the AT&T indoor championships Feb. 23-24 in Boston. On Friday,
Kent Lemme, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts cross country coach, won the masters mile at the Reebok indoor games this afternoon in Boston, taking the exhibition event in 4:25.04 — with a nonconservative margin of 6 seconds over the runner-up.
A little paper in Medford, Massachusetts, has discovered masters track. And it’s amazed that folks as old as 47 (!!!) run sprints. The headline on the story reads: “Kicking it old school: Kountze proves hitting 40 isn’t fatal” Subject of
Becca Gillespy of PoleVaultPower.com shares this news: “DORMAGEN (GER, Jan 25): Former World Indoor Champion Tim Lobinger who is known for high number of competitions started his another year in great style. At the begin of his jubilee 15th year
Hartshorne deserves its reputation as a masters mile mecca. But every year since 2000, Boston also has hosted some great masters miles at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games. Organized by New England USATF honcho Steve Vaitones, the Reebok masters mile
Jesse Cummings of Texas, who competed in masters track from 1987 to about 2000, died Wednesday at 90, his local paper reports. He had an M80 time of 2:05.16 for 400 meters in 2000, which was good enough for world
Roald Bradstock took note of Peter Blank’s retirement from the M45 spear wars. It was the latest favorable news for Roald, whose 71.75 (235-4) throw last May is now listed as the official M45 world age-group record (even though Peter
Norv Turner, coach of the San Diego Chargers, didn’t kick his dog when he returned home from Foxboro after losing to the 18-0 New England Patriots on Sunday. He kicked his receivers coach, James Lofton, off the club. Fired him.
Peter Blank has hung up his spears. Peter, the M45 world record holder in the javelin, was interviewed recently in Germany about his retirement from the sport after four decades. We also learn that Peter sued German authorities to be
Remember Seagren vs. Nordwig? Kingstad vs. Ritte is the latest U.S-German vault rivalry. After opening at 4.10 (13-5 1/4), Germany’s Wolfgang Ritte went straight to an M55 world indoor vault record of 4.30 (14-1 1/4) Saturday and made it on
Allen Johnson, who turns 37 in March, won the 55-meter hurdles yesterday at the elite “Run for the Dream” meet at Fresno State. Results are here. Allen’s time of 7.14 is off his all-time best of 7.03. But that was