Posted September 26, 2005 By Ken Stone Masterstrack.com: Tell me about yourself. What’s your photography background? What’s your athletic background? (Age, hometown, events, marks, etc.) Is photography a career or hobby for you? Lesley Richardson: I am 36 years old,
Listen to this. Literally. Polevaultpower.com, a tech-savvy site, is going out and audio taping accomplished vaulters of all ages. This months, they’ve posted podcast clips of M70 Deke Conklin and M50 Doug “Bubba” Sparks. Sparks is an especially good story-teller,
By now the world knows Alan Webb lost to the Aussie in the Fifth Avenue Mile — a New York City road race with lots of pretensions. But don’t forget the age-groupers. Great times were turned in by Alston Brown
I’ve been scooped! And I love it! Coach Ross Dunton has posted detailed information on the 25 nominees for the 2005 Class of the USATF Masters Hall of Fame, a.k.a. the Hall of Fame in Name Only. (No physical Hall
At least seven masters track or running champions are among the 30 finalists for the inaugural GeezerJock of the Year award, sponsored by Michelob ULTRA. A press release says: “The award recognizes supreme achievement in Masters athletics, which is defined
Last July, an M60 runner/jumper named Jim Snook of Kansas wrote me regarding some software he created to help athletes prepare and analyze their own workouts. He didn’t call it “Coach in a Box.” That’s just sumthin I came up
USATF recently passed along the sad news that longtime Penn Relays announcer Jack O’Reilly had died at age 89. Why should masters care? He was a mentor for our own Pete Taylor. When I informed Pete of Jack’s passing, Pete
A posting today on the Track & Field News message board suggests that “open” athletes (and this can include masters) would be able to compete in an indoor meet Jan. 16, 2006, at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State
My biggest regret upon returning from Hawaii masters nationals was not meeting M95 champ Trent Lane. Too busy ogling the W65 women, I guess. Well, his hometown paper has relieved my guilt by running a nice, long profile of the
Updated September 18, 2005 By Ken Stone Masterstrack.com: Tell me about San Seb. You were pushed in the 400, but you won the 300 hurdles by 7 seconds and the 800 by 8 seconds. Were you happy with your efforts
We’ve come a long way, baby. The first World Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships 30 years ago featured grainy black-and-white photos in the results book — which arrived perhaps a month or two after the fact. Now we got
Posted September 15, 2005 By Ken Stone In October 2001, when I reviewed Earl Fee’s impressive “How to be a Champion from 9 to 90,” I wrote that he should have found a respected “brand-name” publisher instead of putting the
