Middle-distance star Nick Berra deserves a break. And he’s taking one after this season, he reports. His latest exertions include winning the 800 at Drake and running a relay at Penn the next day (Saturday). He did the masters double
Running in front of your kids is no rarity for masters tracksters. But winning the Drake Relays masters 800 with your hurdler daughter in the house? Priceless. That’s what I learned when I wrote Virginia’s Alisa Harvey. At age 49,
William Anthony has posted hundreds of shots of masters at the Penn Relays. See his SmugMug gallery. A professional photographer in northeastern North Carolina, he writes on Google+, “I mostly specialize in sports photography. … I travel quite a bit
A comebacking Alisa Harvey, who turns 50 in September, won the Drake Relays masters 800 Saturday, and masters hurdlers debuted at Penn, where tens of thousands cheered our quartets and sprinters. OK, enough of that (for now). The real history
Looks like Pennsylvania’s Nick Berra, 46, is going for another wild “trains, planes and automobiles” double this weekend. On Friday, he won the Drake Relays masters men’s 800 in 2:02.85. He also won in 2013 and 2010. Here’s what I
The World Masters Games will be in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2017 — a year after WMA worlds in relatively nearby Perth, Australia. That isn’t news. This is: “Here’s your chance to win a trip to Auckland to compete in
The soap opera of Indian masters track just got soapier. I wrote an Indian masters athlete the other day to see how things were going in the saga of competing federations (one is WMA-affiliated, the other not). I’ve written about
WMA and USATF both list relay records in 5-year increments (with America adding a “Club Relay” wrinkle), but some records are missing from the American record list. Since Penn is this weekend, teams should be aware of the “vacant” records,
If Renee Shepherd is the “Jet,” Easter Grant is the “Rocket.” SoCal Track Club’s reach to the South is evident in an Army paper’s story on Easter, a 32-year-old Alabaman who won a bunch of medals at Winston-Salem nationals. “This
Joe Ruggles Jr., my Southern California Striders teammate, pronounces his name RUG-less. I pronounce his latest invention pretty neat. I used it for the first time Sunday at Cuyamaca College, where you can park within feet of the track. That’s
Kathy Bergen didn’t win a masters exhibition event at Saturday’s Mt. SAC Relays. But the ladies and gentlemen who took the 100s and 800s (and a men’s hammer throw in the morning) were utterly overshadowed by the new 75-year-old from
Whoops! I just got a whole national governing body in trouble. Remember my post ripping Sri Lanka for mandating a masters national appearance to be eligible for Lyon worlds? Folks at WMA read it, too. And they were pissed! (Not
