Pete Mulholland, my No. 1 masters mole in Europe, has resolved the mystery of Steve Peters’ DNF at Britain’s masters nationals over the weekend: “There appears to be a major problem with the track in . . . lanes 3
World champ and WR man Stephen Peters was on track to sweep the M50 60, 200 and 400 at the British masters indoor nationals over the weekend in Cardiff. But after running a 23.88 heat in the 200, he was
From the Track & Field News message board comes this news: “Ed (Whitlock) did it again . . . breaking his own M75 World Record in the 3000m at Saturday’s Ontario Masters Championships with a stunning 11:17 mark. His ‘old’
Merlene Ottey’s debut at the European Indoor Athletics Championships over the weekend was incredible by masters standards — but 46-year-olds generally don’t advance past the first round. Merlene ran 7.33 seconds for fourth in her heat Saturday in Birmingham, England.
Merlene Ottey is in lane 4 of Heat 5 of the 60-meter dash at the European Indoor Championships tomorrow in Birmingham, England. As luck would have it, doping dodger Ekaterína Thanou of Greece is in lane 5. But Merlene (with
Some editor at the Vancouver Sun spotted new national senior health stats and told a reporter, “Hey, go find some geezer to write about.” They found Dan Daniels. What a geezer. As Chad Skelton writes, “Daniels is the kind of
Patty Murray, W40 champ at the recent USATF cross country championships at home in Boulder, traveled down the road to Colorado Springs on Sunday and ran a 1500 in 4:50.52 at the Colorado Association and Mid-America Region USATF masters indoor
W60 sprinter Kathy Jager of Arizona, were she a cat, has used up three or four lives now, athletically speaking. And like Rulon Gardner, the Olympic wrestling champ who recently survived a plane crash after losing a toe to frostbite
Julie Hayden of Athena Track Club graciously shares an inside account of what it was like to compete in the Boston indoor nationals’ masters 800 exhibition. Julie writes: “I flew out from Washington D.C. (Dulles) on Saturday morning. The weather
Coach Roger Kingdom in Pennsylvania writes about his elite hurdles race: “We are in the final stages of putting together our meet info. I need to know what masters hurdlers and 5K runners are seriously interested in competing. I need
Just posted a few photos from the USATF Southern California Association Indoor Championships, held Outdoors — an annual meet put together by Andy Hecker to allow SoCal masters to compete at distances they’ll face at Boston indoor nationals (like the
Alisa Harvey and Catherine Stone-Borkowski are listed as DNS in yesterday’s masters exhibition 800s at the USATF indoor open nationals in Boston. Alisa (who lives in Virginia) reports that she simply couldn’t fly to Boston, writing me today: “I did
