Late last week, “Simpdog” became the 300th member of our masters track Forum. Since that’s a nice round milestone, it merits some self-congratulation. But that’s not my style. Instead, I’d rather focus on the members themselves. So who is Mr.
Stan Whitley, my fellow Kansas alumnus, today achieved a relatively rare feat for quarter-milers. He beat his age. At age 61, he clocked 58.91 seconds in the 400 at the Southern California Association USATF Masters Championships, according to unofficial results.
Mark Heckel of the USATF Three Rivers Association has taken charge of a blog meant to serve fellow track officials. Called COIN — Competition Officials Interchange Network — it’s pretty amateurish at the moment. But I suspect Mark will spiffy
Last year, while running near-record 400s in the M50 age group, James Lofton confessed he wanted to bring down the long jump record as well. Last Saturday at Caltech in Pasadena, it was record or bust. He bust. His first
The amazement continues. Martin Gasselsberger’s latest monumental work is a list of all-time bests in the men’s 100-meter dash up through M85. Martin’s mastersathletics.net is setting the pace for masters stats. The list isn’t perfect (it omits a recent 10.60
The funeral was Friday for Clarence “Chaunce” Cook, the 73-year-old thrower killed by a discus at a Texas meet. Haven’t heard details of the memorial service, but an obituary by the mortuary provides more depth about the man’s life and
Tom Jordan, meet director of the Pre Classic, told an Oakland Tribune sportswriter yesterday that he’ll consider inviting M40 recordman Jim Sorensen for his event’s featured Bowerman Mile on Sunday. In an article published today, “Asked Monday if there might
Back in 1989, Oregon sportswriter Ron Bellamy wrote a column at the close of the Eugene world championships that predicted the WAVA meet was growing so big that qualifying standards would become mandatory. It hasn’t come to that, thank goodness.
Over the weekend, W40 Alisa Harvey and M55 Nolan Shaheed received word of their selection as USATF Masters Athletes of the Year via email from Awards Committee chairman Dave Clingan. Nolan’s reaction? “I was TOTALLY floored,” Nolan writes from Pasadena.
Merlene Ottey, who turned 47 on May 10, has set another age record. In her outdoor season debut Saturday in Norway, she ran a hand-timed 11.4 heat and then an auto-timed 11.83 final for 100 meters — which shatters the
Two record-setting milers have been named Athletes of the Year by USA Masters Track & Field. Forty-one-year-old Alisa Harvey of Manassas, Virginia, and 57-year-old Nolan Shaheed of Pasadena, California, are the first AoY picks under a new system in which
Jim Sorensen is ready to go sub-4! Tom McGlynn of Focus-N-Fly running club shares details of one of the greatest masters runs of the decade — a sub-3:45 1500 by 40-year-old Jim: “On a night when the Oregon Track Club
