Archive for March, 2003

Challenge to America: Beat the EuroVets!

Sweden’s Ivar Söderlind, the recordmeister for European masters, has compiled a list of world and European indoor records set at the March 6-9 European Indoor Masters Championships at San Sebastian, Spain (the host of the 2005 world WMA meet). Here’s what he calls a preliminary list of world age-group records set at San Sebastian — […]

March 22, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Pan Pac Masters Games reasonably priced

Today’s mail brings the application booklet for the Pan-Pacific Masters Games in Sacramento. The bad news: The track meet portion of the event is August 1-3 at American River College in Sacramento. (Almost overlaps the USATF national masters meet Aug. 7-10 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Also: This isn’t the same venue as […]

March 22, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Weiner begins masters PR offensive

Bob Weiner of Washington has his mind on another war today — the fight for coverage of masters track. His immediate target — the Boston indoor masters nationals at the end of the month. Here’s his first press release, which led to a short article in the Boston Globe:

March 18, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Puerto Rico WMA entry disaster?

WMA reports: “The last day for entries to the XV WMA World Masters Championships in Carolina in July has been extended. The last day is now April 30 without any extra penalty fee. The LOC will still accept late entries up to May 31 with a penalty fee of USD 50:- after April 30 and […]

March 14, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Hometowns = coverage in masters track

Nice work by the organizers of the Boston national masters meet! The entry list recently posted includes not only names, events and club affiliations but also the Holy Grail of masters statisticians — dates of birth! Keyboarding the DOBs is a pain, but it saves incredible amounts of legwork for reporters and record keepers afterward. […]

March 11, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Blunders R Us: Several corrections

Just received a note from Kamal Jabbour, the brains and chief engineer behind the trackmeets.com webcast of the Boston USATF nationals (and many other events). He corrects my misinformation about the Stacy Dragila interview obscuring coverage of the final laps of the masters 3000, which produced an American indoor record. He writes: “We DID show […]

March 10, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Webcast blunder at Boston 3000

The motto of Trackmeets.com is “We show every lap of every race.” This webcasting company out of Syracuse University lives up to its goal most of the time. But at the USATF nationals last weekend in Boston, the crew dropped the ball. Big time. When Tony Young and masters discovery Brian Pope hammered each other […]

March 9, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Super marks at Saddleback Masters meet

The first outdoor meet of the year is usually about working out winter kinks and setting benchmarks — standards for later improvement. But some amazing results yesterday at the fourth annual Saddleback Masters meet at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo (south Orange County), California, showed athletes in midseason form. The No. 1 highlight: The vaulting […]

March 9, 2003   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed