Don’t know how I missed this, but Athletics Weekly in April ran a note saying Olympic legend Carl Lewis was planning to compete again — in masters track. He turns 45 on July 1, 2006. Track & Field News apparently
The German masters site run by Rüdiger Hasse has posted dozens of short videos of masters in mainly sprint action. Didn’t see any throws (although I didn’t look very hard.) The videos apparently were submitted by amateurs. Lots of camera
Some people can’t figure out why we run, jump and throw past the “good years.” An old Kansas journalist/author friend of mine, Rich Louv, tried to puzzle out why his fellow baby boomers do what they do. Rich’s latest column
Pete Taylor, the nationals meet announcer, and I have been going back and forth in recent months over how many athletes will compete August 3-6 at the USATF National Masters Outdoor Championships in Charlotte, North Carolina. My guesstimate is 1,200.
Justin Gatlin runs 9.77 to tie the 100 world record on May 12, 2006. Asafa Powell runs 9.77 to equal his own PR on June 11, 2006. It’s one of the greatest rivalries in sport — and certainly in contemporary
Sweden’s Ivar Söderlind is my kind of statmeister. (Competent and professional.) He keeps the books for the European Veterans Athletics Association and this week posted a list of meet records for the Eurovets outdoor championships, held in even-numbered years since
Thanks to the Track & Field News message board, my main source for masters news, we learn that Merlene Ottey at age 46 has run the 100 in 11.94 seconds — into a nearly 8 mph headwind! Her stunning time,
Among the first track people I got to know on the Internet was a Finnish 400-meter man named Georg Dunkel, who maintained (and still does) an all-time list of Finnish quarter-milers. Not long after, I met (and ran well behind)
Hy-Tek is the Microsoft of track-and-field software. It’s basically a monopoly. So it’s good to hear that the 2006 Age-Graded Tables are now incoorporated into Hy-Tek’s Meet Manager program. Yesterday, Charlie Hodgson of Hy-Tek wrote me: “After considerable effort and
Y’all know about how the New York Armory said yes and then no the 2007 USATF Masters Indoor Nationals and how the Home Depot Center near L.A. pulled the same stunt on the 2006 USATF Western Regional Masters Championships. Now
Ed Small is steamed — and saddened. Not just because he was fired last month as director of track and field at the Armory indoor track in New York City (after 13 years of service). It’s the bitter fact that
Kevin Morning lost his M45 world record in the 200 this spring but not his hunger for speedy competition. Yesterday at the Jim Bush USATF SoCal Association Open Championships at Occidental College, Kevin ran the 100 in a windy 11.38
