Sweden’s Ivar Söderlind, the recordmeister for European masters, has compiled a list of world and European indoor records set at the March 6-9 European Indoor Masters Championships at San Sebastian, Spain (the host of the 2005 world WMA meet). Here’s
Today’s mail brings the application booklet for the Pan-Pacific Masters Games in Sacramento. The bad news: The track meet portion of the event is August 1-3 at American River College in Sacramento. (Almost overlaps the USATF national masters meet Aug.
Bob Weiner of Washington has his mind on another war today — the fight for coverage of masters track. His immediate target — the Boston indoor masters nationals at the end of the month. Here’s his first press release, which
WMA reports: “The last day for entries to the XV WMA World Masters Championships in Carolina in July has been extended. The last day is now April 30 without any extra penalty fee. The LOC will still accept late entries
Nice work by the organizers of the Boston national masters meet! The entry list recently posted includes not only names, events and club affiliations but also the Holy Grail of masters statisticians — dates of birth! Keyboarding the DOBs is
Just received a note from Kamal Jabbour, the brains and chief engineer behind the trackmeets.com webcast of the Boston USATF nationals (and many other events). He corrects my misinformation about the Stacy Dragila interview obscuring coverage of the final laps
The motto of Trackmeets.com is “We show every lap of every race.” This webcasting company out of Syracuse University lives up to its goal most of the time. But at the USATF nationals last weekend in Boston, the crew dropped
The first outdoor meet of the year is usually about working out winter kinks and setting benchmarks — standards for later improvement. But some amazing results yesterday at the fourth annual Saddleback Masters meet at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo
Let’s review the sorry situation. Ross Dunton has agreed to produce world seasonal rankings — a.k.a performance lists — for World Masters Athletics. The idea is to recognize the best performances in various age groups. Credible sources include national championships
Merlene Ottey, the Jamaican-born sprint great, runs for Slovenia these days. But she might as well compete for Jupiter as far as the WMA world indoor rankings are concerned. At an indoor meet February 9, 2003, in Ghent, Belgium, only
Tony Young’s incredible M40 indoor season continues. Yesterday he bettered the listed American indoor M40 record for 3,000 meters with a sensational 8:22.99 in Heat 2 of the Washington Invitational. The M40 world record is 8:09.13 by Marcus O’Sullivan (Ireland),
Track & Field News once told me that masters track was of no interest to its readers — since it’s a “participant sport” and not a “spectator sport.” Well, tell that to the crowd at Madison Square Garden, where the
