The USATF Pacific Association erringly reports: “Most of the athletes at (Friday’s) Stanford Twilight Meet were looking for an NCAA Qualifier, but the PA’s Kris Paaso was looking for a fast race to break the F45-49 American Record for 1500m,
At last. Ida Keeling, who turned 100 nearly a year ago, is ready to run a sanctioned 100. She’ll have quite an audience — at the Penn Relays. If she doesn’t get an illegal aiding wind, the title of W100
Steve “Hummer” Holmes, a coach in the Northeast, shares sad news of the March 8 death of his brother, Ed Holmes, at age 82. Cause of death was adenocarcinoma of the lung — lung cancer. “Ed was a lifelong nonsmoker,
My wife had great access at Saturday’s Mt. SAC Relays, held at Cerritos College — where I ran the CIF 120-yard low hurdles 46 years ago. It was dirt back then, but the stands seem the same. Anyhoo, Chris Stone
South Africa has a long and proud masters track tradition, and some incredible records as well. I’m reminded of that when I learned that W85 Christi du Plooy of the Central Gauteng Athletics team set a national record of 49.80
Many were mystified by this announcement on the British masters site: “For the time being Maurice Doogan will not be acting as Track and Field Secretary or Team Manager at international championships. He has been suspended by World Masters Athletics
It’s the end of fall Down Under, and the Aussies started their masters nationals Saturday in the south. The meet ends Tuesday, and the first day’s results have been posted. Track results are separate from field results. The legendary Peter
Joy Upshaw, Derek Pye, Michael Smith and Tania Fischer put on a marvelous masters show at the Mt. SAC Relays on Saturday, winning their races at Cerritos College in Norwalk because Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut is being remodeled. But
A rough Google translation of Alfred Hermes’ German masters site tells the story of an M85 Eurovets entrant suffering a medical emergency. Here’s all I know: “A week after the end of the European Indoor Championships in Ancona / Ita.
Masters nationals begin three months from today (Thursday). At last, I’m informed, USATF has posted entry information for Grand Rapids. (See it here.) Now the clock is ticking toward June 16 deadline for standard online or paper entry. But I’m
John Seto’s work on mastersrankings.com keeps getting more amazing, especially now that he has some help. He’s posted Eurovets indoor championships results and writes: “Even though this meet and several other national and regional championships (Germany, Canada, Belgium, UK, US,
After several email exchanges with M45 WR man Allen Woodard, I was still curious about the injury that forced him to quit track despite such great potential. His latest response is gut-wrenching but hopeful. Allen writes: “When I was young,
