Don Pellmann has a passion for competition, as I noted here recently. But even the best masters reach a point where it’s time to quit. So it is with Pellmann, who at 90 might be considered the best athlete of
On August 30, 2005, delegates from 61 WMA member nations gathered in San Sebastian to give up, down and sideways votes to 26 proposals (rules changes, Constitution amendments and the like). Detailed results of these votes have only now begun
Forget Ironman. That’s for wimps in Speedos. Try a DD — a double decathlon. A couple weekends ago, 34 certifiably insane track athletes gathered in Lynchburg, Virginia, for the World Double Decathlon Championships. Twenty-eight finished the two-day, 20-event grind, which
Forgive my going off-topic, but this news transcends track: Last night in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, an 80-year-old man and a 76-year-old woman were official finishers of the world’s toughest triathlon — the Ironman Granddaddy of them all. The Associated Press reported:
When saints are declared in masters track, meet directors go to the head of the line. They do the dirty work, usually unpaid, that gives the rest of us a chance to have fun and stay fit. My Saint Du
TJ is Tom Jordan, the just-retired executive vice president of World Masters Athletics. He’s also, with Barbara Kousky, the track majordomo in Oregon. And he’ll be majorly involved in helping the Oregon Track Club host the 2008 Olympic Trials at
Here’s a switch: Former world-class sprinter Tania Murphy of Australia competed in her country’s version of the National Senior Olympics as a tuneup for a run at a spot on her nation’s Commonwealth Games team. According to an article in
Today’s episode of Dear Abby deals with masters sports, and it’s more evidence that some doctors practice CYA (cover your butt) more than medicine. The latest incarnation of the syndicated advice columnist gets a question from a W55 triathlete.
Below is a screenshot of the WMA Web site. We’ve just had a World Masters Athletics Championships, so you might expect some image of skill, speed or strength. But instead of highlighting any of the 6,033 entrants at the San
Mavis Hutchison, 80, is known as the “Galloping Granny” down south — down in South Africa, that is. A former resident of Durban, site of the 1997 World Masters Athletics Championships, Mavis knows how to play the press. Today’s news
Don Pellman lives south of San Francisco in Mountain View, California, and if you haven’t heard much about him, trust me, you will. Page 4 of the current issue of National Masters News features him with a story headlined “90-year-old
I look for inspiration everywhere. Folks who overcome adversity. Folks who excel through discipline. I especially like learning of folks who were slower than me in my kiddy days but who still kick butt. In the case of architect Jim
