Masters Hall of Famer Kathy Martin, 63, confirms that this week’s USATF Athlete of the Week designation was indeed her fourth. “And such an honor,” she graciously writes, responding to my inquiry. “As Masters athletes, we just keep raising the
Retire the award. Or at least name it for Kathy Martin. USATF on Wednesday announced its Athlete of the Week honor — and for at least the fourth time since 2011, it goes to our own Kick-Ass Kathy of New
Bob Hewitt says he heard of his selection as USATF Masters Male Athlete of the Year from a friend in Stockholm, Sweden. “Lars Wennblom emailed me congrats for being selected male AOY. I told him he must be confused with my
Outpolling the likes of steeplechasers/mile stars Brad Barton and Nolan Shaheed, multi-event record-setter Bob Hewitt has been named USATF Masters Male Athlete of the Year. Oregon Bob is an M80 superstar. He set world indoor records in the long jump
Uh oh. On the Documents Library page of USATF’s Anaheim convention, we see a link to the Masters LDR Athletes of the Year Ballot. The text reads: “You are receiving this ballot because you have been designated as a representative
NMN, but maybe not the monthly magazine we call National Masters News, was featured on the “Colbert Report” recently. Stephen Colbert had a segment on the anti-aging chemical NMN. The news is old: “First the compound that reversed aging in
Another stain on the masters name. The USATF Records Committee has posted its pending American records to the Documents Library of the Anaheim convention site, and Gia Lewis-Smallwood’s open AR in the discus isn’t up for a W35 AR. Would-be
The South Americans are holding an eight-day WMA regional championships in Medellin, Colombia. The meet ends Sunday, but results have been posted here. WMA reports that more than 1,800 are entered. But they’re dealing with bad weather, a la Porto
The NSGA website says nothing, but The Associated Press (and Alabama media) are reporting that Birmingham will host the 2017 National Senior Games. The 2015 Games are in the Minneapolis area. So for the first time since 2007, when Louisville
Heard of this? The French news agency AFP reports: “The inaugural world beach games could go ahead in 2017 featuring sports like beach track and field and beach American football, a senior Olympic official said on Wednesday. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad
If you want to set a world record, don’t follow Chris Kimbrough’s example. “She … admits that she might benefit from going into her next record attempt better rested,” said a great Runner’s World report. “The morning of her record,
If you can’t spin, you slide. If you can’t hurdle, you throw. Those are the lessons conveyed in a profile of W65 weight woman Mary Lou Platis of Wisconsin. “There are some events I just had to drop off over
