Anyone with the motto “Make Track & Field Great Again!” has my vote. Except I won’t be a delegate or visitor to the Orlando annual meeting of USATF in December. But I’ll be there in muck-raking spirit. I plan to
The Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center is a mecca for kiddies and masters alike. Its indoor track at Roxbury Community College outside Boston has hosted USATF masters indoor nationals 14 times, the latest being in 2014. Now a soap
Racewalk.com has posted 49 years of Ohio Racewalker newsletters. The archive starts in March 1965 and goes through early 2014. But don’t think it’s just a narrow interest parochial publication. It covers the history of the sport and masters results
I see respectable marks out of the 30th Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah, but sadly none from 99-year-old Dan Bulkley of Oregon. Guess he scratched. The oldest entrant was M90 Al Box. But M80 sprinter Bobby Whilden of Texas
Now is not the time to go for a wind-aided 100 PR in eastern Florida. Hurricane Matthew is blowing in, and folks in the evacuation zones have heard the warnings not to blow them off. I realize that the whole
Americans are dominant in masters track, but nobody holds a candle to Eurovets on masters stats. Latest evidence is the recently updated All-Time Top 10 Lists. Good example is 100 meters, which goes up to M105. (But only one deep
Recollections are circulating about the mid-June Nemean Games, held at the site of the original Greek event. One is from M65 sprinter Larry Lettieri and another from a gent about the same age named Tony Diamantidis. Larry writes: “The site
Four months ago, we noted the coming debut of Kenya at WMA worlds. Now I note 18 Kenyans entered at Perth. Only one — former national champ Joshua Pondo — is a field-eventer (in shot and discus). The rest will
It’s not exactly like meeting President Obama, but an 84-year Indian shot putter won a national award Saturday from his country’s prez. The Tribune of India reported Monday: “Gurjiwan Singh Sidhu was awarded the National Award for senior citizens for
It’s about 830 miles from his home in southern Oregon to Snow Canyon High School in southern Utah. But Dan Bulkley knows the route well. Starting Monday, the Masters Hall of Famer will take part again in the Huntsman World
Last weekend, Holland’s Weia Reinboud added to her legend by throwing another W65 world record in the javelin. (See results here.) She noted that her 32.02 (105-0 1/2) was with the 500-gram stick, instead of the old 400-gram. “I am
IAAF Prez Sebastian Coe turned 60 on Thursday, and Athletics Weekly tried to get him to say he’ll consider masters track. He didn’t take the bait. AW writes: “Having watched such incredible competition unfold in Rio, was there a small
