Archive for May, 2007

M40 Sorensen humbly eyes sub-4 mile this summer

Jim Sorensen is no sorcerer. He can’t predict the future, and won’t promise a record. But he’s not shy about admitting that the M40 mile marks are on his mind. In the second and final part of my interview with the new AR man in the 800, Jim hints he could use a fast open […]

May 25, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  16 Comments

Friday Night Lights — all-comers meets in Houston

Springtime may be track season for high schoolers, but it’s only the first third of the long masters track season — which extends late into October. In Houston, masters have the option of competing six Fridays in a row starting June 1, reports our M55 high jump friend Milan Jamrich. He writes: “Beginning the Friday […]

May 24, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Nadine O’Connor’s long jump beats old AR by a foot!

Results are now posted from Saturday’s Southern California Striders Meet of Champions. Nadine O’Connor’s legal long jump was 4.26 meters — just a tad under 14 feet. It surpassed the listed W65 American record of 3.94 (12-11ÂĽ) by Leonore McDaniels in 1994. The WR is 4.64 (15-2 3/4) by a German in 2002. Nadine’s wind-aided […]

May 24, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Triple-jumping fools are focus of latest photo gallery

Three-time Olympian Willie Banks is 51. Tom Patsalis turned 85 in December. What do they have in common? They’re both terrific at the triple jump. Neither nailed any records in their latest competition, the Southern California Striders Meet of Champions on Saturday, but they’re featured in my latest photo gallery. Tom jumped (and sprinted) in […]

May 23, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Hartwig ever higher: 19-2 1/4 at Jonesboro meet

American record holder Jeff Hartwig, who turns 40 in four months, improved his M39 world cialis online record in the vault to 5.85 (19-2 1/4) at a meet Saturday in his hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas. One observer reported: “What a show! I was excited that all of my AVC kids got to witness Jeff Hartwig […]

May 22, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

An interview with M40 record holder Jim Sorensen

Jim Sorensen is a single gent with a girlfriend and a busy job teaching middle-school P.E. in the East Bay town of San Leandro. And, oh yeah, a new M40 American record for 800 meters. A thoughtful man with a story to tell, Jim consented to an email interview. The first part is below. It’s […]

May 21, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

Shares in Bradstock rising: another M45 javelin record

Roald Bradstock, 45, is closing in on an Olympic Trials qualifier in the javelin. A world record helps. On Saturday, at the Florida Athletic Club Classic in Clermont, he threw 71.75 (235-5) (not 71.80 as first reported) on his first attempt to surpass his own M45 American record of 68.80 (225-9) set two weeks earlier. […]

May 21, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Joan Benoit-Samuelson iffy on Orono nationals

Joan Benoit-Samuelson, who made herself a legend by winning the inaugural women’s Olympic marathon in 1984, turned 50 this past week and is still very active as a road runner. She lives in Freeport, Maine, just down I-95 from Orono — where the masters nationals are being held this August. So the big question is: […]

May 20, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Nadine O’Connor’s historic sub-30: a windy 200

Running her first 200 since March, 65-year-old Nadine O’Connor of Del Mar, California, ran the 200 in 29.83 yesterday at the Southern California Striders Meet of Champions at Long Beach State. I saw that race, which had an illegal wind, and also heard she set a long jump record for her age group. Results will […]

May 19, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

New online home for sprinters! But where are masters?

I don’t know who Alex Ray is. But he’s trying damn hard to get noticed. He’s the owner/publisher/webmaster of an “amateur Web site” devoted to sprints. Calls it sprintic.com. It’s pretty slick for an amateur site. But he’s a little too brazen about reprinting articles, such as one lifted from Scientific American. Anyhoo, I wrote […]

May 18, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment