Nearly 10 years ago, a church friend of ours had a serious stroke. Paralyzed on one side of his body, Don could barely speak, couldn’t walk and struggled to be understood. But he communicated through moans and smiles. I volunteered
Don’t be shy. Last weekend’s record-setters (Alisa Harvey, Lesley Chaplin-Swann and Neni Lewis) should have topped the News & Notes press release that USATF sends out to a gazillion media contacts. Bob Weiner and his USATF Masters T&F Media Subcommittee
W40 Alisa Harvey and W45 Leslie Chaplin-Swann did in one meet what few masters runners do in a lifetime: set American age-group records in two events. As the MAC association Web site confirms, Harvey of Virginia and Chaplin-Swann of Georgia
M75 German sprinter/jumper Wolfgang Reuter has been named Europe’s “Best Male Veteran” athlete, according to Annette and Robert Koop and the Eurovets Web site. The best European woman is W65 hurdler Rietje Dijkman of Holland, of course. Last year she
My recent boycott-the-nationals post has prompted a raft of insightful replies — mostly critical of my analysis. That’s fine. The debate is long overdue, and even if I prove to be dead wrong, I’m proud of provoking some careful thinking
Dieter Baumann, the German Olympic 5000-meter champ who famously blamed doctored toothpaste for a steroids violation, has run some road races recently as an M40, reports the Track & Field News message board Annette Koop’s masters track “seite” also mentions
So Mark Cleary and others insist that their hands are tied — that meet directors of the USA open nationals allow only running events from 100 to the mile in the masters exhibitions. No field events. Mark and others insist
Happy new year! And welcome to the new world order of Mark Cleary’s Masters Invitational Program. These are races (never field events) conducted as exhibition events at the USATF open indoor and outdoor nationals (and a select few other meets,
After turning 40 in mid-September, it was only a matter of time for Alisa Harvey to start making waves in her new age group. Last night at the MAC Holiday Classic at New York’s Armory track, Alisa led from start
Current issue of National Masters News (January 2006) is out. And it has some really strange stuff — a heavy-on-fluff column by USATF Chairman George Mathews in which his opening paragraph goes into numbing detail on the number of hours
For the past few years, Dave Clingan (co-webmaster of this site) has been keeping seasonal lists for USATF — tracking the best performances in all masters age groups. At the Jacksonville meeting a month ago, USATF Masters T&F was to
Call ’em cocky. Call ’em dreamers. Just don’t call ’em late to the starting line (or the beer bash afterward). Soon-to-be M45 distance stud Pete Magill and M40 mile star Tony Young are quietly plotting assaults on the record books
