‘RATC’ is the masters track documentary “Racing Against the Clock,” which after a limited theatrical distribution is now out on DVD. And the Boston Globe is the hometown paper of the filmmaker. Finally, the Globe is giving this movie some
All-star masters club teams — involving distance runners from widely varied areas of the country — have been common in recent years, especially at the national masters cross country championships. For example, M40 winner Brian Pope of Mississippi ran for
The decathlon’s 10 events have been set in stone for nearly a century, with the order of events committed to a million memories: 100, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400 on Day 1, then 110 hurdles, discus, pole
If Rod Milburn were still alive, he’d be 55. He wasn’t into masters track, but some of his contemporaries are. And a few may still be fully engaged in the hurdling wars. Reason I ask about your contact with him
M50 stud (when he’s not hobbled) Dave Ortman of Seattle has renewed his call for a grass-roots network of event rankers — people who would comb the available printed and Web resources to compile seasonal lists of the world’s best
In December 1991, a 39-year-old Montana State graduate student named Russell Jacquet LaMar Acea submitted a master’s thesis titled “A Profile of the Masters Track & Field Athlete.” It was reprinted in National Masters News in the early 1990s, and
If you ever get depressed at the backward state of masters track, push the forward button to USA Masters Swimming. These folks have their shinola together. Of course, they have demographic advantage, since masters swimming starts at age 25 (or
Poor Trigger. I’m about to beat him again. The Masters section of the USATF Web site is a snooze, a shame and sickly out of date, especially in comparison to the USATF Youth Athletics area. And even if a dead
In case you haven’t noticed, old is in. Geriatric studies and articles on aging are flooding the technical journals and news racks. Latest evidence of this trend is the new issue of National Geographic. The November 2005 issue has a
And I mean that in a nice way — now that his sons have provided photographic proof of Don’s heroics at September’s Rocky Mountain Masters Games, where he set M90 world records in seven events. No doubt, also, that Don
Updated October 21, 2005 By Ken Stone Don Pellmann of Mountain View, California, was born on a farm near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in August 1915. He lived and worked in that area until his retirement in 1972. He says he was
This week brought the intriguing news that Sylvester Stallone, 59, is planning to make a sixth “Rocky“ movie, in which Rocky Balboa, at age 60, makes a boxing comeback against the world heavyweight champion. Cool. Stallone sez: “I am drawing
