Stacy Dragila cleared 4.20, 4.30. 4.40 and finally 4.50 today at the Road to Eugene meet at the University of Oregon, thus raising her own W35 world age-group record twice in the vault to 14-9. Her previous W35 best was
The USATF masters nationals have been open to foreign athletes for decades. Pay your entry fee, prove your age, and America lets you compete. No more. Now you have to have the blessing of your national governing body. The sad
Track bloggers unite! All three or four of us. (Actually, several dozen.) The latest, and perhaps the greatest, is Jimmie R. Markham of Richardson, Texas. He introduced his blog — Finish Line Pundit — as a comment on this blog
Jim Sorensen is no sorcerer. He can’t predict the future, and won’t promise a record. But he’s not shy about admitting that the M40 mile marks are on his mind. In the second and final part of my interview with
Springtime may be track season for high schoolers, but it’s only the first third of the long masters track season — which extends late into October. In Houston, masters have the option of competing six Fridays in a row starting
Results are now posted from Saturday’s Southern California Striders Meet of Champions. Nadine O’Connor’s legal long jump was 4.26 meters — just a tad under 14 feet. It surpassed the listed W65 American record of 3.94 (12-11¼) by Leonore McDaniels
Three-time Olympian Willie Banks is 51. Tom Patsalis turned 85 in December. What do they have in common? They’re both terrific at the triple jump. Neither nailed any records in their latest competition, the Southern California Striders Meet of Champions
American record holder Jeff Hartwig, who turns 40 in four months, improved his M39 world cialis online record in the vault to 5.85 (19-2 1/4) at a meet Saturday in his hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas. One observer reported: “What a
Jim Sorensen is a single gent with a girlfriend and a busy job teaching middle-school P.E. in the East Bay town of San Leandro. And, oh yeah, a new M40 American record for 800 meters. A thoughtful man with a
Roald Bradstock, 45, is closing in on an Olympic Trials qualifier in the javelin. A world record helps. On Saturday, at the Florida Athletic Club Classic in Clermont, he threw 71.75 (235-5) (not 71.80 as first reported) on his first
Joan Benoit-Samuelson, who made herself a legend by winning the inaugural women’s Olympic marathon in 1984, turned 50 this past week and is still very active as a road runner. She lives in Freeport, Maine, just down I-95 from Orono
Running her first 200 since March, 65-year-old Nadine O’Connor of Del Mar, California, ran the 200 in 29.83 yesterday at the Southern California Striders Meet of Champions at Long Beach State. I saw that race, which had an illegal wind,
