The folks at Australian Masters Athletics are the picture of creativity. They are planning a “Nostalgia Photo Display” at 2015 outdoor masters nationals in Sydney. “So far we have received Nationals photos from 1974, 77, 79, 80, 84, 86 to
Malcolm Gillis of Alabama, a pioneering masters marathoner who completed the 5K-10K-marathon triple at 1995 Buffalo worlds, died Dec. 2 at age 81, his local paper reports. His son, Bob, told a story from 1997 Durban worlds: “[Malcolm] was walking
Canadian Running magazine could have found someone faster or more decorated, but its Masters Runner of the Year award for 2014 went to a gent with perhaps the most dedication to the sport — Doug “Shaggy” Smith. An M60 steepler,
Aussie supermaster Keith Bateman and co-author Heidi Jones have begun posting video extras to their new book “Older Yet Faster.” Here’s Heidi with a knee exercise. Below is how Keith begins teaching his running technique — kind of like starting
In its news release on Kristi Anderson’s suspension, USADA called her a track and field athlete. Not so. The 51-year-old mountain runner in Colorado says she’s never competed in a masters track meet. Had she been a part of our
So much for the theory you can get a drug waiver after the fact. Kristi Anderson, a W50 marathoner, was slapped with a 12-month doping suspension despite USADA accepting her explanation that she was taking banned DHEA under a health-care
Myrle Mensey, the record-setting thrower and our Athlete of the Year a year ago, threw the spotlight on her young proteges this week in a St. Louis TV segment. (See it here.) Promoting her Throwing and Growing group of girls
If you can’t make the Big Kahuna of masters miles (the Hartshorne Memorial races at Cornell University), here’s a spring fling in San Diego: “The San Diego State University Aztec Masters Mile is a separately sanctioned event … during SDSU’s
A British newspaper story caught the eye of a quarter-miler friend of mine. It told of how regular intake of Ibuprofen, the pain reliever, can “allow people to live up to 12 years longer.” Bullfeathers, said many of the comments
My talented and beautiful wife, Chris, who has competed in nationals and worlds while also covering them with her Nikons, turned 60 on Saturday. It was a wonderful day. Her best girlfriend (from age 5) traveled from Tucson, as did
Some folks have been puzzled about non-Europeans being invited to compete in the late-March Eurovets indoor championships in Poland. Now it gets even more mystifying. A top masters official tells me: “I have had two explanations [about “out of competition”
Poor Kim McKinnon. She’s a sophomore sprinter at Monmouth University in New Jersey who lost to a 50-year-old woman Sunday in a 60-meter dash. (See results.) But chin up, Kim. It took a world record to beat you! Renee “The
