Archive for April, 2006
Pat Manson clears 18 at age 38 at Kansas Relays
Pat Manson, a Kansas Jayhawk track alumnus, vaulted 5.50 meters (18-0 1/2) in a return to the Kansas Relays over the weekend. At age 38, he’s showing the needed fitness to take down Larry Jessee’s maligned world record of 18-0 of 10 years ago. Elsewhere on the geezervault front, Doug “Bubba” Sparks shares a link […]
April 24, 2006
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Marla Runyan returns from maternity, threatens W35 records
Marla Runyan, the legally blind Olympian, on Saturday ran her first race since giving birth to her daughter, Anna, in September 2005. Now 37, Marla clocked 32:11.92 for 10,000 meters at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. That’s not far off the listed American W35 record of 31:28.92 by Francie Larrieu in 1991. The listed world […]
April 24, 2006
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Shuttle hurdle history is made: masters race in Mesa
Jeff Davison of Southern California made good on his vow of organizing a masters shuttle hurdle relay in Arizona. Yesterday in a suburb of Phoenix an M45 quartet ran the 4Ă—110 shuttles just as the preps do in meets like the Drake and Mt. SAC Relays. Jeff almost had enough hurdlers for an M60 relay, […]
April 23, 2006
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Aussies get down with masters nationals — outdoors
My apologies to my Down Under friends for not saluting their efforts in Canberra, where they recently completed their four-day masters outdoor nationals. Hope this makes up for it. Here are results from Day 1 and Day 2 and Day 3 and Day 4. The star of the show may have been W60 Marge Allison […]
April 21, 2006
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Roger Pierce credits wife for masters track career
The Salem News Online has a nice report (albeit belated) on M60 sprinter Roger Pierce, who helped set a 4Ă—2 world indoor record at Linz and won the 400-meter title at Boston nationals. His appreciation for his wife is noteworthy. Not all masters are so lucky. He says: “None of this would be possible without […]
April 21, 2006
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Visalia Masters Classic is a go — sometime in October
Central California is a Garden of Eden for growers, where much of the nation’s produce is harvested. It’s also a paradise for masters track, where every May the Visalia Masters Classic attracts great athletes from around the West. Except not this May. Bob Higginbotham, the 79-year-old meet director, says the event is being pushed back […]
April 20, 2006
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Sid Howard featured in Runner’s World chat
Rock stars know they’ve made it when they’re on the cover of the Rolling Stone. The equivalent for track stars is Runner’s World. Or the online version. Today we get to meet Masters Hall of Famer Sid Howard again — whose world and national titles are too numerous to count. Peter Gambaccini conducted the Q&A, […]
April 19, 2006
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Penn Relays amounting to masters nationals for sprinters
So where would YOU rather run — at a hot North Carolina meet with a few dozen fans in the stands, or during prime time of a cool Philly event with 50,000 people roaring themselves hoarse? The lineups of the masters sprints at this year’s Penn Relays are so loaded, they should be declared national […]
April 19, 2006
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Clash of M45 titans (and contrasts) shaping up
Dennis Lewis, the Greta Garbo of masters track, says he’s looking forward to again challenging M45 high jump world champion Bruce McBarnette at Charlotte this summer. So says a report in his hometown paper, which is hard as heck to read online because the paper’s Web site makes you jump through all manner of hoops. […]
April 19, 2006
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Great photos of Linz worlds posted by great Briton
Lesley Richardson has posted thousands of action photos she took at the WMA World Masters Indoor Championships in Linz, Austria. Check out her gallery, which is organized by day and event. They’re for sale, of course. Lesley is a sprinter herslef, but she hasn’t recovered from an injury so she didn’t compete at Linz.
April 18, 2006
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