Archive for March, 2007
Predict different race results with Jundo online form
Dr. Ajay Kumar Dosaj of London is a big track fan. A Kenyan-born Indian, he has posted more than 7,000 times (as “eldrick”) on the Track & Field News message boards. He knows track inside and out, and isn’t shy about expressing his opinion. Now he’s gone the extra mile. He’s devised a commercial site […]
March 13, 2007
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Penn Relays info online; Boston adds day to deadline
The Penn Relays treats masters like royalty, and its events amount to an unofficial World Masters Relay Championships. This year, masters run at Philly on April 27-28. But masters majordomo Phil Felton says the entry deadline is April 6. So here is the entry form. Meanwhile, the regular entry deadline for Boston indoor nationals has […]
March 12, 2007
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Belgian nationals feature W65 world record in TJ
The Koops’ site in Germany reports results from the Belgian indoor masters nationals yesterday in Gent. Edith Graff triple-jumped 9.12 meters (29-11 1/4) to shatter the listed W65 world indoor record of 8.68 (28-5 3/4) by Holland’s Rietje Dijkman in 2005, who was IAAF Masters Athlete of the Year in 2005. Among the men, ex-European […]
March 12, 2007
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Swiss hurdler tops own non-Devers world record
Monica Pellegrinelli of Switzerland, preparing for the Eurovets indoor meet in Helsinki, lowered her own W40 WMA record for 60 hurdles yesterday. She clocked 8.66 seconds over the distance with masters spacing, beating the 8.71 she set at Linz last year. (She also has run the IAAF women’s 60 hurdles in 8.55, reports Pino Pilotto […]
March 12, 2007
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Happy B’day to GĂ©rard Dumas, world’s longest vaulter
M70 vaulter GĂ©rard Dumas may not go high, but boy does he go long! After posting that he jumped 8 feet a month ago, I learned something awe-inspiring. GĂ©rard’s fellow British Columbian, Roger Ruth, wrote me: “GĂ©rard’s most outstanding vaulting datum, aside from his pre-eminent position as a statistician, is his unbroken string of years […]
March 11, 2007
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Record M70 relay had a little supernatural help
Now it can be told. The recent world indoor record 4Ă—2 relay team, made up of four 70-year-olds, benefited from PED. No, not drugs — performance-enchancing deity. The Rev. Dick Camp, No. 3 leg on the 1:54.05 team, writes: “Two things stand out in my memory: 1) Rich (Rizzo) asked me to lead the team […]
March 10, 2007
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Phil Raschker begins assault on W60 world records
Every five years, this lady out in Georgia takes a break from her tax business and goes bonkers on the track. The result: a shredded record book. So it began a week ago as Phil Raschker, in her W60 debut, bettered two world and two American records at the USATF National Masters Indoor Heptathlon Championships […]
March 10, 2007
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Darren claims April 1 birthday. Too much irony for me
Sub-4-at-40 aspirant Darren Worlock has replied to a set of questions I sent him via his Web site. He starts out by answering my DOB query: “My date of birth is 1st April 1970.” OK, April Fools Day. No problem! Lotsa people were born on that day. But then he proceeds to dance around questions […]
March 9, 2007
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M45 runner insists he’s training for 2008 Olympic Trials
Darren Worlock, meet Michael Marren. You’re two peas in a pod — even if separated xanax by The Pond. Darren — the 36-year-old British runner training for a sub-4 mile at age 40 — can’t begin to touch the ambitions of Marren, a 47-year-old Chicagoland athlete who has publicly declared that he is “the oldest […]
March 9, 2007
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Ed Whitlock says he stuck to pace, then sped to WR
After learning of Ed Whitlock’s latest M75 world record, I wrote him to learn more about his 3000 indoor WR in Toronto. He graciously replied, “My objective was to run 45 seconds a lap (200m) for 11:45. On the first bend, I ended up behind Tim Payne (M55) and stayed there as I thought the […]
March 8, 2007
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