They pulled the trigger. Anyone wanting to start a subscription to GeezerJock magazine now has to pony up $30 for 18 issues or $40 for 30. (Both give you Web access to current issue and its archived articles, though.) This
Don’t blink when Alisa Harvey takes the track. At Penn, while masters sprinters and relayists dominated attention, Alisa doubled her fun by smashing the W40 American records in the 1500 and mile, competing against national-class open runners. This gives her
It wasn’t a record, but the winning M40 4×4 team at Penn came scary close. The all-time best M40 4×4 is the venerable 3:25.40 by the Philadelphia Masters (Dhamiri Abayomi, Robert Stanford, Jim Burnett and Edwin Roberts) way back in
At Penn, the geezer 100 is a crowd-pleaser, especially after Everett Hosack ran at age 100 several years ago. It’s contested during prime-time on Saturday — a day after the other age-groupers run. The race formally is called the 75-and-older
Raw results are nearly meaningless, but the masters mile marks at today’s Drake Relays indicate something slowed down the likes of M40 greats John Hinton (winner in 4:23.85) and Tony Young (nearly seven seconds back). I checked out the hourly
Thank God Bill Collins is 55. It leaves the M50 group all to me! Hahaha. Kidding. But what can you say about the standing-start Houston flash? At the Penn Relays today, he ran the 100 in 11.50. Another day, another
Frank Schiro, the heroin-conquering masters sprinter, is celebrating the 21st anniverary of a road race he founded 21 years ago, where all proceeds go to Integrity House, a drug- and alcohol-treatment program in New Jersey. He writes: “This race is
Every time a new IAAF newsletter come out (in PDF format), I download it to see if any masters athletes have been nailed for a doping offense. The April newsletter has no such bad news this time. But it does
Wendell Palmer is a beast. I say that in a nice way. He’s a world-class thrower (and record holder) with great genes (his mother, Margaret Palmer White, died at age 102 after competing in the throws as late as 100).
Today’s issue of Runner’s World Daily (the online unit) carries another chat with a masters superstar — this time W70 Mary Harada, Linz medalist and world record holder in the indoor mile. In a typical show of masters modesty and
Anyone out there wanna host a big ol’ track meet? World Masters Athletics has posted a reminder that the deadline for submitting bids for the 2010 world indoor championships and the 2011 world outdoors is September 1, 2006. If North
Pat Manson, a Kansas Jayhawk track alumnus, vaulted 5.50 meters (18-0 1/2) in a return to the Kansas Relays over the weekend. At age 38, he’s showing the needed fitness to take down Larry Jessee’s maligned world record of 18-0
