Archive for June, 2007
Tolson back, O’Connor barrels at McMahon meet
Nadine O’Connor today lowered her own W65 world record in the 100, running 14.10 seconds at Cal State San Marcos in north San Diego County. Moments later, Harold Tolson ran against other M65s in his first race since his abrupt retirement four years ago. Harold, who turns 70 in December, said he entered to guage […]
June 30, 2007
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Track meet cancelled for San Diego Senior Olympics
An Olympics without track and field? Unthinkable! But that’s the case this September in San Diego, where the Senior Olympics entry form says the annual meet has been “postponed till 2008.”. Why? I’m not sure. It might have something to do with the fact that the organization has no executive director at the moment. Brad […]
June 29, 2007
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Bob Lida on record rampage at National Sr. Olympics
Bob Lida of Wichita apparently plans to rewrite the M70 record book at Louisville. Yesterday in the 200 prelims of the National Senior Olympics, he led all qualifiers with a 27.26 into a 1.0 mps wind. The world age-group record is 26.71. The American record? Payton Jordan’s 26.8 hallowed hand-time from 1987. In the 400 […]
June 29, 2007
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Payton Jordan moving down coast to Laguna Beach
Payton Jordan, the masters sprint god and subject of a recent biography, is moving from Santa Barbara to the Orange County town of Laguna Beach, (later correction: He moved to Leisure World in Laguna Woods.) according to this gem of an article. Payton is moving this week, John Zant writes, to be closer to his […]
June 29, 2007
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National Masters News releases editor, hooks new one
Randy Sturgeon’s hands are full as publisher of National Masters News. Getting the monthly paper produced, printed and mailed is a monster task. (Not to mention selling ads.) The last thing he needed was a botched editorial product. Sadly, his initial pick for editor, Juliet Wahleithner, was an embarrassment. I haven’t detailed the shameful production […]
June 28, 2007
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Sorensen on American record mile: ‘like pulling a piano’
CSTV.com has posted a great video (click on “1 mile in record time”), showing Jim Sorensen’s M40 mile record yesterday at Bloomington, Indiana. Brett Hess of College Sports TV called the race (with Indiana Invaders coach Matt Ebersole) and interviewed Jim and prep star Matt Centrowitz afterward. Track was wet after an earlier rainstorm, but […]
June 28, 2007
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Sorensen mile video may be posted at MaxPreps.com
Tom Fischer of MaxPreps.com interviewed 17-year-old miler Matt Centrowitz and 40-year-old masters record holder Jim Sorensen yesterday morning at the Indiana track where they’d run their miles that evening. Tom’s video is viewable here (but you’ll need to type Centrowitz into the search field first). I’m confident that video of the race itself will be […]
June 28, 2007
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Ottey labors to 12.03 last-place finish in Ostrava
Merlene Ottey not running sub-12 for 100? Unthinkable! Funny how we apply world-class standards to a woman 47 years old. In any case, Merlene took last yesterday at an IAAF Golden Spike meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, clocking 12.03 seconds, probably her slowest time since grade school. On the bright side, she now has 2 […]
June 28, 2007
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World records leaped at National Senior Olympics
Helen Beauchamp of Memphis, Tennessee, the W85 USATF Female Field Athlete of the Year in 2005, still has game. At the National Senior Olympics yesterday in Louisville, Kentucky, she set a W85 age-group world record in the long jump, going 2.31 meters (7-7) with no wind. It was one of at least four WRs set […]
June 28, 2007
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Sorensen sets M40 American record with 4:05.27
Jim Sorensen ran a fabulous 4:05.27 mile tonight in Bloomington, Indiana, according to a post on T&FN and the dyestat prep site — taking fifth in a race won by Dan Wilson’s 4:01.00 and finishing behind prep star Matt Centrowitz’s 4:03.47. Jim became the fastest American 40-year-old in history, beating the listed M40 national record […]
June 27, 2007
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