The lower Himalayan city of Dharamsala is hosting India’s 36th annual masters nationals now through Sunday. Haven’t the faintest idea where results are. More than 2,000 are entered (in a country of 1.25 billion), according to this news report. The
I surveyed USATF politics wonks to get their takes on the surprise news that Stephanie Hightower is stepping down as chairman of the USATF Board of Directors. (But she swapped jobs with Steve Miller, the vice chair, so she remains
Olympian Ed Burke shares news about fellow hammer dude Nick Welihowzkjy, a Stanford grad who is marketing a backpack-style bag called the “Wrascalcarrier.” Nick is a marketing whiz, too. He writes: “Just touching base real quick to tell you about a
The StarPhoenix paper in Canada reports that 81-year-old Ted Rowan set national records for his age group in the 50- and 60-meter hurdles. Then he’s quoted as saying: “I hate running. But I’ve got to do that and that’s what
Sunday on Facebook, Stephen Gould asked: “Why don’t the Penn Relays have individual 100m races for masters women? Men’s sprints take up only half an hour — can they really not find the time?” He later posts that Penn masters
It’s only April, and guess how many marks have been submitted for American record review? Two dozen? Forty? Sixty? All wrong. Try 72 as of Friday. Jeff Brower as USATF Masters T&F Records Committee chair is keeping his Google Docs
Card this lady, please. National sprint champ Rose Green of Maryland is 76 but looks 36. We learn from her local paper: “She had always been fit,” her coach said. “She trains like crazy and I was in masters track.
Houston, we have a superstar! The latest masters trackster to win USATF Athlete of the Week is Texan Allen Woodard, who set an M45 world record at 400 Saturday and became the oldest human to run a lap under 50
Back in 2010, we introduced Joanna Harper of Portland, Oregon. She used to be a man but still competes as a distance runner. Only now she is W55 instead of M55. A week ago came a wonderful update in the
“I accept I’m not 21. I accept I’m not the sprinter I was back in college,” says a fiftysomething gent going out for a jog in running shoes and green longsleeves top. He’s an actor, probably. But the commercial for
Many self-published books are vanity affairs. But not the marvelous photo-and-profile effort by Britain’s Alex Rotas. As noted recently, “Growing Old Competitively” focuses exclusively on masters tracksters. She attended major meets and captured dozens of stars in sharp relief. The
How would you feel if USATF said you couldn’t enter Lyon worlds unless you competed this summer at Jacksonville nationals? That’s the scenario facing Sri Lankans, according to a story in The Nation. “The annual open athletics championships of the
