Archive for September, 2005

Masters of the future featured on Trackshark.com

Tom Borish, a recently married Web geek in Massachusetts, has a hobby site focusing on collegiate track and field. He calls it Trackshark — probably because it eats its competition alive. This week he also started a blog. I point this out because, frankly, every blog about track is a step toward greater visibility. We […]

September 10, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Kip Janvrin details his M40 world record deca

Kip Janvrin was a man on a mission in San Sebastian — not just to break the M40 world record (which he did) but to crash the 7,000-point barrier for over-40 athletes on the IAAF open tables. He did that with ease, too, scoring 7,525 points in Spain — and making sure it counted. He […]

September 9, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Lindgren has new gig — as UH cross country assistant

Maybe this will put Gerry Lindgren on a conventional path: coaching young runners at the University of Hawaii. With little fanfare, the school announced today: “Head coach Carmyn James enters her sixth year with the program and welcomes assistant coach Gerry Lindgren, who will handle the cross country program after Andy McInnis left for a […]

September 8, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Gerry Lindgren’s backstory — the dark side of a running legend

Boy, was I naive. When I interviewed Gerry Lindgren at the Hawaii masters nationals last month, I had no clue about his many-splendored malfeasances. I knew only about his track career. But today I read a 1987 article in Sports Illustrated by Kenny Moore about Gerry’s mystery life — living under an assumed name (Gale […]

September 8, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Kip Janvrin’s masters debut: world record in M40 decathlon

Posted September 8, 2005 Kip Janvrin competed in the USATF open nationals in June, turned 40 in July and entered his first masters meet in August. And what a debut — a world record 8,618 points (but 8,623 in another tally) in the age-graded M40 decathlon at the 16th World Masters Athletics Championships in San […]

September 8, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Carla the Magnificent spears an American record

Ever seen a better couple of spearchuckers than Chuck and Carla Greene of Ohio? Chuck reports that his javelin-throwing mate Carla, 42, tossed the spear 42.05 meters (138-0) for a W40 American record, displacing a 2002 mark by Caryl Senn of New York set at Orono, Maine, in 2002. An old-style javelin record for W40 […]

September 7, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Peter Snell masters comeback reported

Buried on Page 9 of a British running magazine is blockbuster news for world masters track — and American masters as well. Peter Snell is coming back! A three-time Olympic gold-medal winner (in the 1960 800 and 1964 800/1500) and six-time world-record setter, Snell “is to compete in the Masters Games in Dunedin in his […]

September 6, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Pick the top male and female masters athletes in the world

Give up? Too many choices? Juggling too many apples and oranges? Not a problem for the WMA Council, which at the close of the World Masters Athletics Championships chose Canadian Earl Fee (M75) and Holland’s Rietje Dijkman (W65) as WMA’s male and female athletes of 2005 — and sent them on their way to Monaco […]

September 5, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Stay at the dorms in Hawaii? Your deposit is coming

Meet director Mark Zeug of the Hawaii masters nationals reports that he’s pushing University of Hawaii officials to return the $25 cleaning deposits due several hundred masters athletes who stayed in the dorms at the meet a month ago. When I wrote him about the issue and urged him to light a fire, he replied: […]

September 4, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

WMA betrays the founders of world masters track

David Pain will dissolve in agony when he hears about this: official medal counts at the WMA world meet. Thirty years ago, at the first World Masters Track & Field Championships in Toronto, the founders of what would become the World Association of Veteran Athletes (now World Masters Athletics) fought a bitter battle with Canadian […]

September 3, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments