Quarter-milers like to say they run the last 100 meters with something on their back — a horse, a refrigerator, a planet. But the last 100 is easy as a feather for M50 dashman Frank Schiro. He’s carried a far
The mystery? Well, Olympian Gail skipped the 2005 track season after biting off more than she could chew at the Athens Olympics, where she tried for a 100-100 hurdles double. (She pulled up in a hurdles heat.) And the question
Posted January 26, 2006 By Ken Stone In a dark alley, Frank Schiro might scare you — his arms covered with tats, his hair black and scraggly. In fact, he’s a keeper of stray cats who markets cute little pillows
Results have been posted as a PDF for the Oceania Track & Field Championships, part of the Oceania Masters Games in Christchuch, New Zealand. Oldest entrant was an M90 sprinter named Syd Taylor from New Zealand. The weeklong meet ended
USATF names an Athlete of the Week about 52 times a year, and sometimes perplexes folks. This week’s honoree, 42-year-old miler Marisa Hanson of Pleasant Valley, N.Y., is a plausible pick. She set an outstanding meet record at the hallowed
Ithaca Journal running columnist Diane Sherrer reports a dramatic postscript to the Hartshorne masters miles at Cornell University. She writes: “Interesting footnote: Mike Trunkes of New Paltz, one of the invited M40 elites, saved a life at our post-race party
Results are in from Ithaca, thanks to hard-working masters maven and bugmeister Rick Hoebeke, who writes: “It was a great day for Masters competitors! Marisa Hanson set a new Hartshorne Masters Mile record (5:02.69) (old record: Patty Blanchard – 5:08.6,
A message thread on letsrun.com and a phone call this afternoon informed me of a 4:20 run by M40 stud Tony Young yesterday at the Hartshorne masters miles at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Apparently, he had help from
Ten years ago this summer, according to Frey-like legend, M40 vaulter Larry Jessee cleared 5.50 meters at a single-event meet in his hometown of El Paso, Texas. He submitted paperwork to USATF and WAVA and got credit for being the
Some of my greatest track moments were anchoring the shuttle low hurdle relay for Valencia High School in the 1969 and 1970 seasons. I didn’t even mind running AGAINST the hurdles! Those were the days! But masters don’t run shuttles.
Jim Reilly and Mary Rosado have provided more details on the club selection for the Millrose Games masters 4×4 relays — probably more info than you need to know. But what the heck. I was curious (and some correspondents were,
A couple days ago, WMA Prez Cesare Beccalli replied to my query about a drug positive test at the San Sebastian world championships — and said the offending athlete is German. Now I get a note from a German source
