Archive for April, 2006

World-record masters milers get pop on runnersworld.com

By “pop,” I don’t mean soda. I mean props, kudos, recognition. Jim Ferstle penned a nice piece for runnersworld.com about Nolan Shaheed and Mary Harada, who made their mile marks at Boston indoor nationals. It’s headlined, appropriately, “Masters show how it’s done.” He also talks about Aaron Thigpen, who has a famous actress cousin.

April 1, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

No fooling: Aaron Thigpen opens season with 10.94

Used to be that M40 sprinters going low-11s in the 100 were viewed as phenomenal. Now it’s ho-hum for Aaron Thigpen, who clocked 10.94 for 100 meters with 0.0 on the wind meter yesterday. Simply amazing. He did it at the Stanford Invitational yesterday in Palo Alto, south of San Francisco. His time was 14th […]

April 1, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed