Ralph Fruguglietti, 52, a restaurateur in the Central California town of Shafter is really looking forward to Riccione worlds. 1) He was born in Italy. 2) He throws the discus and hopes to threaten a record. Unfortunately, Ralph is unclear
Tony Echeandia won the M40 hurdles at 2006 Charlotte nationals. How cool would it be to finish third in your open national championships — at age 43? Ask Getulio “Tony” Echeandia. A week ago Sunday, Tony won bronze in the
John Simpson during Charlotte nationals. Aaron Thigpen, don’t look back. Folks are gaining on you. At the April Mt. SAC Relays east of Los Angeles, Aaron lowered his own M40 American record for 100 meters to 10.60 seconds. But on
Jimmie Markham’s general-purpose track blog has a nice interview with a masters blogger (and high school coach and M45 runner) named Jon Waldron, who sez: “I had a really good year a few years ago and ran 4:33 for the
Anyone over 35 — the masters entry age — is a “geezer” when it comes to competition in the USATF national championships at Indy — only a week away. The Status of Entries page is full of wrinkled grayhairs, AKA
How serious is Roald Bradstock, the new M45 American recordholder in the javelin? He made a special request to USATF to be restored to its out-of-season drug-testing program. Of course, he’s eligible, since he’s qualified for the ambien price USATF
The biggest non-Japan world masters championships in history is assured. WMA President Cesare Beccalli writes of this September’s meet in his native Italy: “We have a total of about 8,900 competitors from about 90 countries — 3,000 of them are
Almost 900 Germans (all of them listed here) are entered in the Riccione world masters championships in September. But by the end of the meet, one German-born American may have collected more hardware than the entire Deutschland women’s team (of
Results are now posted from the USATF Southern California Association Masters Championships of June 9. Many are eye-catching. In addition to meet records previously pointed out by Jeff Davison, we see four more: In the M50 discus, Ralph Fruguglietti threw
Jim Sorensen is at peace. He didn’t get an invite to run the Bowerman Mile at the Pre Classic on Sunday, but he was touched by the grass-roots campaign to make it happen. (His quest to be the first M40
Phil Raschker turned 60 in February, so every time she competes it’s record time. Her latest WRs came at this past weekend’s USATF National Masters Heptathlon Championships in Hoover, Alabama — her outdoor season debut. Her friend and mentor Phil
Results have yet to be posted, but the USATF National Masters Decathlon/Heptathlon Championships over the weekend in Alabama was the scene of some very hot action, including world age-group records, I’ve been told. Our friend Stefan Waltermann writes: “It was
