More details have emerged on the Hayward Classic rebuff of Zel Brook, the cane-using W55 runner in Oregon. Latest story appeared in the Corvallis newspaper, which says Brooks jumped through all the hoops she could, citing the Americans with Disabilities
Thursday afternoon through Sunday night, I’ll be in Carson covering the USA Outdoor National Track & Field Championships. You can read everything I write from the Home Depot Center cuz I’ll be keeping a real-time diary, or blog, via Wi-Fi
KVAL TV in Eugene, Oregon, reports that W55 runner Zel Brook was prevented from competing in the hallowed Hayward Masters Classic over the weekend because she uses a cane — the result of her once having a brain tumor. First
Andy Hecker had a heck of a time running the Southern California Association USATF Masters Championships on June 11. That extended to determining final results. He first posted an incomplete set. Later he reviewed some phototimer shots and added further
Don Fields says it was a perfect day for sprinting in Tampa, Florida — 90 degrees, no problems with his left Achilles’ tendon or right hamstring. No wind either. As Fields recalls it, his hand-timed 10.4 for 100 meters at
In an earlier post, I wondered aloud why all the women in the upcoming exhibition 1500 masters race at Carson nationals had times that end in .00. Now Mark Cleary — organizer of the masters events at nationals — gives
China has, what, 1.3 billion people? Must be tough to hold a masters nationals. Five hundred heats of the 100? But no, they’re not that into geezertrack. Not yet at least. My academic superstar friend Professor Thierry Boucquey at Scripps
No Roger Kingdom. No Renaldo Nehemiah. No Greg Foster. No wonder. The masters men’s 110 hurdles exhibition race at the USATF open nationals next week still has record-setting potential, but the big names hinted by event organizer Mark Cleary are
Willie Banks, former world record holder in the open triple jump, is finding his revived comeback as a masters jumper a challenge. But he’s still confident, based on improved speed in workouts, that he’ll reclaim the M45 record in the
A USATF official in the Missouri Valley Association just sent me info on a June 17-18 youth meet that also will accommodate masters “born before 1975.” He apologizes for the late notice but says he’ll waive LATE entry fees for
Michael Chiles, an M35 sprinter who says he’s the coach of masters sprinter Don Fields, has responded to my request for details on the 10.38 100 attributed to Fields at a Tampa meet a few weeks back. Here’s what Chiles
More results from the weekend are filtering in, including news of two records involving the 200. At Saturday’s Southern California Association USATF Masters Championships, Willie Gault scorched the M40 200 in 21.6-something electronically and Kettrell Berry ran 21.8-something. Awaiting details
