You can’t tell the players without a scorecard. Same with USATF rule-change proposals. The Hawaii meeting of USATF resulted in a bunch of alterations to the rulebook, and the scorecard of those changes is right here. But then you have
Diego Cacchiarelli and Werter Corbelli make belle statistiche. Diego Cacchiarelli is a 38-year-old gentleman who lives in Macerata, “a Medieval town in the center of Italy.” Werter Corbelli is 50 and resides in Rimini, near the world champs site of
Phil Raschker, honored a couple weekends ago in Monte Carlo as IAAF Female Masters Athlete of the Year, is back in Georgia (but planning another trip to Europe — visiting her mom in Germany and training with friends). She took
I have stat envy. Over the past few days, I’ve been ogling the work of masters rankers and record-keepers in Spain and Italy. They join the Germans, Brits and Aussies (and the USA) as the most with-it statisticians in the
Alisa Harvey, who turned 42 in September, ran a nifty 4:53.36 mile and 2:12.76 for 800 meters Saturday at the Liberty Kickoff Invitational in Lynchburg, Virginia. Alisa holds the listed W40 American indoor mile record of 4:46.29, set last year.
Dave Clingan, chairman of the USATF Masters T&F Awards Committee, met with some of his committee members at the Hawaii annual meeting of USATF. They made some changes in how awards will be decided. The main difference is that the
Eleven masters athletes, including five “old-timers,” have been inducted into the USATF Masters Hall of Fame, according to a source within USATF Masters track. The official news release has not been prepared yet, so take this as unofficial for the
Thanks to a CC from Jeff Davison of Southern California, I’ve learned about a group called the Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Normally, I don’t pay much attention to roadies, but this group also tracks single-age records in the 5,000
The National Track & Field Hall of Fame inductees (five of them) were announced a couple weeks ago. USATF’s awards breakfast revealed a bunch of other award winners Saturday. But before delegates to the USATF annual meeting say aloha to
A few years ago on my 50th birthday, I ate ice cream cake. Today on Steve Rainbolt’s 50th, he ran 50 kilometers (about 31 miles) as a fundraiser. Guess he took it more seriously. Steve is track coach at Wichita
Last April, I wrote about an Age-Graded Tables project by Chuck Phillips. Last week he gave me an update, writing: “While it still takes WMA five or so years to update their age-graded tables, I just updated mine in one
Allen Johnson, 1996 Olympic champ at 110 hurdles, says he’ll enter the M35 hurdles at the 2009 masters indoor nationals, according to a press release from Bob Weiner. He’ll be 38 when the indoor nationals are held at the Prince