Annette Koop, a world-class W45 middle-distance runner in Germany, (9/17 update: Actually a Swiss man wrote the post. See comment below) says on her blog that one reason the European Veterans Athletic Association failed to get the two-thirds approval needed
With more than a few world-class sprinters on board, the masterstrack.com Forum has taken off like a shot! But I’m also hoping that it has staying power as well. Should be no problem. Among the newbies is M75 marathon legend
When word leaked that adult members of USATF would soon be paying $29.95 a year instead of $20, the natural follow-up was: What’s it mean for masters? Will we see a share of the loot? The answer came today —
A USATF press release tells us: “Raphael Peck, the Vice President of Product Creation for Under Armour, has been named as a Director of the USA Track & Field Foundation Board, USATF Foundation Executive Director Tom Jackovic announced on Tuesday.”
Forget the Burning of Atlanta. The latest siege is USATF Masters laying waste to Charlotte LOC and its meet director. In his latest column in National Masters News, Masters T&F Chair George Mathews blames Dr. Gordon Edwards for everything but
A new Swiss masters track site has an interesting page — devoted to what it calls “Medaillenstandards fŸr Schweizermeisterschaften der Masters.” The layout of the page evokes the All-American Standards chart familiar to readers of National Masters News. Fortunately, the
Stefan Waltermann of North Carolina, an M55 sprint and pentathlete, has posted a Micorsoft Excel file that may be the easiest way yet for masters to calculate scores in the pentathlon (indoors and outdoors), heptathlon and decathlon. Check out the
Details are emerging on a new fee structure for USA Track & Field membership. According to a series of posts on the USATF Associations mailing list (on Yahoo Groups), adults will begin paying $29.95 (starting in 2007?) but have the
Sprinter/hurdler/jumper/multi-eventer David Ortman of Seattle has his hands full with training and rehabbing his latest injury, but he also finds time to maintain records, rankings and write delightfully thoughtful (albeit quirky) columns on track and field. Today he gave me
Today in the IAAF Lounge I discovered a European-based stats site that has the potential to advance the masters movement as much as, uh, us. It’s called mastersathletics.net and it features records and seasonal rankings not seen anywhere since, uh,
This AP report chaps my hide: “BOZEMAN — Anonymous donors have set up a $1 million endowment for the Montana State track and field program, the university says.’This generation gift will help sustain our track and field program in the
Tragic news out of Seattle: M55 sprinter Willie Venable has died of injuries from an attack in late August. Seattle Times writer Jennifer Sullivan even quotes masters decathlon star Dave Ortman: “Though Venable was a regular competitor in local decathlons
