The 17th annual Front Runners New York Indoor Track Meet at the Armory track in New York had a lot of masters, including sprinters and middle-distance runners. One 4×200 relay team called itself Three Geezers and a Baby. But buried
Geoff Power, our aptly named Canadian scientist friend, shared his team’s latest research on the oldest masters tracksters. Geoff writes: “Participants consisted of 29 elderly males and females with no known neurological, musculoskeletal, metabolic or cardiovascular health conditions. The Masters
Sean Wade ran a 5000 Friday at Rice University in Houston and found himself “a little shocked” by his time, he says. No wonder. At age 50, he lowered the world age-group record to 14:52.92, just nipping the listed WR
On March 20, the British Masters Athletics Federation posted the official IAAF video of the men’s masters 800 at Portland. (See it here.) On Thursday, I was sent the official women’s 800 race video. So I uploaded the 700-meg file
IAAF President Seb Coe is moving to clean up the world governing body in the wake of the Russian doping scandal and bribery cases. But I didn’t expect the vacuuming to include masters track. But here we go. Longtime IAAF
Masters marathoners just wanna have fun — even at age 85. I contacted Ed Whitlock after his amazing double WR at Canadian masters nationals, and he graciously explained about that 4×400 relay. But he couldn’t tell me what his split
Redefining our notions of running limits, M85 Ed Whitlock has crashed more barriers. Over the weekend, Ed added two world indoor records to his quiver — in the 1500 and 3000. Competing at Canadian masters nationals at the Toronto Track
Call me crazy, or just plain lazy. I took hundreds of pictures of the masters exhibition 800s at IAAF Portland, and I’m letting anyone have them. No charge. These are original high-resolution images of Saturday’s men’s race won by David
Ireland’s Joe Gough, 63, signed autographs and posed with fans at IAAF Portland worlds Saturday night. He hadn’t won the race. But he won the hearts of nearly 7,000 fans at the Oregon Convention Center after bravely sprinting away from
SoCal Track Club’s Nolan Shaheed, whose 800 seed time of 2:17.5 for IAAF Portland sparked questions, won’t run at worlds after all. Neither will France’s Marc Schmitt or Spain’s Aurora Perez in the W55 women’s race. According to start lists
Remind me in November to nominate Phil Felton for the USATF Masters David Pain Award for Distinguished Service. Phil’s longtime role as volunteer masters coordinator at the Penn Relays alone qualifies him. He’s circulating entry info now, so check out
This Saturday, a little before 12:30 p.m. Pacific, the masters women’s 800-meter exhibition starts at IAAF indoor worlds at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Fifty minutes later, the men race. I’ll be there. But you should be able to
