Bill Collins of Texas and Karla del Grande of Ontario, Canada, are in the running for IAAF Masters Athletes of the Year, according to WMA veep Rex Harvey, who writes: “Suzy Hess, as Chair of USATF MTF, after work by
In late 1999, not long after Dave Clingan and I merged our masters track Web sites, a visible hit counter was installed on the home page. Early today, it clicked over to 1 million. That’s a million page views. Incredible.
Charlotte nationals champ Conor O’Driscoll of Rye, New York, was the fastest over-40 miler yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York City, clocking 4:26 on the asphalt course. At age 45, Conor won his age group and also
Last June, Athletics Weekly reported that Olympic great Carl Lewis was preparing to jump into M45 competition at the 2007 masters world meet in Italy. Now I kind of doubt it. He’s thinking of a different kind of race: a
The British newspaper The Herald has a wonderful article today marking the 50th birthday of Lord Sebastian Coe, the Olympic champ and world record holder who became a politician/sports official and won the 2012 Olympics for London. No, he’s not
Where will the 2009 USATF National Masters Outdoor Championships be held? We’ll know in two months, when delegates assemble at the national meeting in Indianapolis. Who are the bid cities? Possibly Sacramento. Otherwise, I haven’t a clue. Who’s running to
Foot-dragging is what hurdlers do. It’s not what USATF asssociation leaders should do. But that’s what the longtime director of a major California masters meet says led him to cancel the Visalia Masters Classic — a popular staple of the
In December 2005, Sandy Pashkin of Eugene, Oregon, was recognized by USA Track and Field as Masters Administrator of the Year, honoring her work on the nationals-overseeing Games Committee and her gig as USATF Masters records chair. (She holds the
San Diego hosted the first six USA masters outdoor nationals, but in the past couple decades, pretty much nada. That could change. Mike Rouse, newly elected president of the San Diego-Imperial Association of USATF, says he’s looking into possibly bidding
Doug Smith is kind of the Ken Stone/Dave Clingan of Canada — the No. 1 source for great masters news from the Great White North. Yesterday’s email included his news of the Canadian Masters Athletic Association. He also shared details
M75 phenom Ed Whitlock of Milton, Ontario, expressed his love of competition today in the way he knows best — completing another 26-miler in world record time. At the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Ed, 75, smashed the previous age-group record by
A couple weeks after Charlotte nationals, I wrote to Rex Harvey of the Games Committee, saying that meet director Gordon Edwards was upset about Masters T&F Chair George Mathews insisting that Gordon find shuttles to the far-away Dining Hall for
