Earl Fee, Ed Whitlock team for M80 indoor WR in 4×400 relay
Christa in triple jump.
Earl on left and Ed on right were in good standing with two others gents for WR.
Linda Cohn beats collegians, sets W60 javelin American record
Linda has plenty to smile about. Another AR.
Canadian 4×8 team sets indoor W50 world record after predicting it
Our moles report: “Team Canada Women 50 broke the World Record in the 4X800 Relay at the first day of the Canadian Masters Indoor Championships in Toronto, running 10:32.66. That broke the existing USA record of 10:38.97 set last year. Pictures will be posted by Doug Smith on ontariomastersathletics.ca soon!” Actually, Doug posted the shot below on his Facebook page. The team is Donna Dixon of Calgary (50), Karen Gold of Toronto (50), Laurie Meloche of Regina (51) and Patty Blanchard of Moncton (55). Moreover, a great newspaper article a couple days earlier telegraphed the WR attempt.
Here are the fast women who stole the WR from Team USA. We gonna allow that? (But I need their IDs, left to right.)
Christian Cushing-Murray joins 1500 fun: M45 AR of 3:55.09 at Oxy
Cush during his Fluffy Bunny days.
From left: Ray Knerr, Christian and Pete Magill visit after Oxy race and AR 1500. (Diana Hernandez photo)
Hugh Campbell crushes M85 indoor WR in 3000 by 100 seconds!
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Hugh Campbell
Paul Babits raises own M50 world indoor vault record to 15-7
Paul Babits raised his own M50 world indoor vault record last month, I’ve just learned. He cleared 4.75 meters (15-7) at the Brenda Lee Open at Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to his website. The listed indoor WR is Paul’s 4.73 (15-6 1/4) from 2011. At the same meet, Olympic champ Jenn Suhr jumped a then-world-leading 4.84 (15-10 1/2). Not to be overlooked: Paul’s wife, Brenda, cleared 2.51 (8-2 3/4) as a W50. Bud and Nadine, you have some competition! Congrats to all.
Little-noticed until now: Isett sets M70 WR in shadow of Jenn Suhr
Don and Jenn, just two peas in a record pod at USA nationals.
Brad Barton crushes John Hinton’s M45 world indoor mile record
Brad Barton used a 62-second final quarter Saturday night to claim the M45 world record in the indoor mile, clocking 4:16.84 at the Armory track in New York, reports the Armory website. That mark falls short of Tony Young’s never-ratified 4:13.25 run four years ago on the dang oversized track at the University of Washington. But Brad ran the fastest mile indoor for eight laps, so his mark should stick. Afterward, he was quoted as saying: “I didn’t think I could run that fast.” The listed M45 indoor mile record is John Hinton’s 4:20.18 from 2008, which took more than a year to recognize. Also reporting Brad’s brilliant race was his hometown newspaper. Brad told the paper: “My first half-mile was running 2:10.0. The second half was 2:06.8. With 400 meters to go I knew I had the record. The announcer got the crowd into it and I really flew home. I thought I could run 4:19 but bested my own aspirations by well over 2 seconds and smash the previous record by over three seconds.”
Brad Barton at the Armory on his record-setting day.
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World champions Valle, Prince wins masters exhibitions at USA nats
M40 Eric Prince, whose last exhibition race on the USATF open stage was first in the 200 at the U.S. Olympic Trials, won again Sunday at the USA National Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He clocked 51.59 to win a three-man 400-meter race, with possible challenger Khalid Mulazim listed as not starting. Fellow world champion Lisa Valle, W45, won the masters women’s 3000 in 11:07.76, well ahead of Jill Vollweiler’s 11:30.94. Cleared-to-jog Liz Palmer also notes the effort of “fellow Colorado girl Brandi Bernart” in the women’s open 60. “She didn’t make the finals, but she did run a 7.65! Brandi is 34. The AR for W35 is 7.86. Maybe next year!” Congrats to all. Here’s a video of Eric from the Eugene Trials last summer:
Horace Grant claims M60 world indoor record at 800 meters at LSU
Bill Collins writes Saturday from Baton Rouge: “Wanted to update you that Horace Grant broke the world record in the indoor 800 meters today. The meet was the Southwest regional championship at LSU. (See results here.) He ran 2:14.23, which breaks the American record of 2:14.75 by Sid Howard. The old world record of 2:14.42 was by Harold Morioka.” I had heard that Nolan Shaheed was set to run at LSU, but his name wasn’t in results. Nolan holds the listed M60 outdoor record at 2:08.56. Horace must have had fun — beating a guy almost half his age. Blake Bearden, 31, ran 2:23. Don’t feel bad, Blake. Horace is a legend. He holds the M55 AR in the 800 at 2:06.53, also set at LSU (back in 2009). Here’s Horace at a WR run three years ago:
