A video of Jim Sorensen’s masters mile win at the Indy nationals is posted here, thanks to the folks at Flocast. Yup, it was wet. But Jim ran his own race — even if it meant leading from the gun.
What a revelation! Posted on our Forum is a link to an online decathlon/heptathlon scoring form — plug in your marks, and the scores pop up, age-graded! Incredible. I haven’t seen age-graded points given before online. (The site even has
Damn rain. If not for an apparent drizzle, the masters mile exhibitions at Indy today might have gone a lot faster. As expected, M40 Jim Sorensen outlegged M45 John Hinton in the men’s race, winning in 4:13.21 — despite being
In the mid-1990s, when I was just a pup, I began corresponding with one of the great track statisticians of this or any time: Peter Matthews of Britain. He graciously shared his masters records for 40-and-over men, as well as
Jeff Hartwig delivered yesterday at the USATF open nationals at Indy. He took second in the vault with a pedestrian (for him) 5.70 (18-8 1/4). Of course, he’s jumped much higher this year — 5.85 (19-2 1/4) in May. Not
Our 36-year-old sprinters had a rough time at USATF open nationals yesterday in Indianapolis. In the men’s prelims, Jeff Laynes finished in 14.94 seconds after pulling a muscle and limping in. And Chryste Gaines fell short in her comeback, clocking
My apologies to Caren Ware. She became the first woman in her age group to complete the new women’s decathlon at the Alabama multis meet, so she has first dibs on the W40 WR. I neglected to notice that a
Roald Bradstock, 45, and Jeff Laynes, 36, compete in prelims today at the USATF open national championships — which serve as the IAAF worlds trials (picking the team for Osaka). Roald is in Flight 1 (listed as Arne Bradstock). So
Germany’s version of USATF has a new, improved home page. And a nice portion is devoted to “Senioren” — or masters track. Unlike the USATF Masters maze, the German site is clean, well-organized and full of groovy content. Especially helpful
All-comers meets get a bad rap. “They’re for kids. Not well-officiated. Don’t have accurate timing or measuring.” You’ve heard ’em all. But for masters, all-comers can be a godsend. And many are conducted at the highest standards of USATF officiating.
Charlotte nationals were a scorcher last summer. This month, conditions were similar at the USATF national decathlon/heptathlon championships in Alabama. But meet organizer (and world-class multi-man) Bill Murray was ready. Cases of Gatorade, cold-as-ice towels. Athletes were pampered as they
John Seto throws his superweight around at 2007 Boston nationals. Photo by Cheryl Treworgy Dave Clingan, whose seasonal world and USA masters rankings began as a hobby in 1999 but grew into a professional gig with state-of-the-art software, is stepping
