Archive for June, 2007

Threats to Thigpen emerge: Two other M40s under 10.8

John Simpson during Charlotte nationals. Aaron Thigpen, don’t look back. Folks are gaining on you. At the April Mt. SAC Relays east of Los Angeles, Aaron lowered his own M40 American record for 100 meters to 10.60 seconds. But on June 9, Tim McCrossen clocked 10.74 at a Dayton meet, and three days later John […]

June 16, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

Bloggers unite! Interview each other, and stay on track

Jimmie Markham’s general-purpose track blog has a nice interview with a masters blogger (and high school coach and M45 runner) named Jon Waldron, who sez: “I had a really good year a few years ago and ran 4:33 for the mile as a 45-year-old. But I still feel like I can train smarter and race […]

June 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Geezers galore at Indianapolis USATF Open nationals

Anyone over 35 — the masters entry age — is a “geezer” when it comes to competition in the USATF national championships at Indy — only a week away. The Status of Entries page is full of wrinkled grayhairs, AKA M35, M40, M45 and even some W40 athletes. (And this doesn’t count the masters exhibition […]

June 15, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Interview with M45 javelin master Roald Bradstock

How serious is Roald Bradstock, the new M45 American recordholder in the javelin? He made a special request to USATF to be restored to its out-of-season drug-testing program. Of course, he’s eligible, since he’s qualified for the ambien price USATF Open nationals and probably the 2008 Olympic Trials. But that’s not the most interesting thing […]

June 14, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Giant field for Riccione worlds — doom for Sacto bid?

The biggest non-Japan world masters championships in history is assured. WMA President Cesare Beccalli writes of this September’s meet in his native Italy: “We have a total of about 8,900 competitors from about 90 countries — 3,000 of them are Italians, about 4,000 from other European countries, a little less than 2,000 from all other […]

June 14, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Watch out, world: Phil Raschker competing pain-free

Almost 900 Germans (all of them listed here) are entered in the Riccione world masters championships in September. But by the end of the meet, one German-born American may have collected more hardware than the entire Deutschland women’s team (of 280 athletes). Phil Raschker is back. “I haven’t felt this good in probably 11 years,” […]

June 13, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

More great marks from SoCal masters championships

Results are now posted from the USATF Southern California Association Masters Championships of June 9. Many are eye-catching. In addition to meet records previously pointed out by Jeff Davison, we see four more: In the M50 discus, Ralph Fruguglietti threw 55.92 (183-5), beating a mark by the late Parry O’Brien. Stan Whitley’s 400 was 58.81, […]

June 13, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Jim Sorensen on Pre: ‘Not running may have been good’

Jim Sorensen is at peace. He didn’t get an invite to run the Bowerman Mile at the Pre Classic on Sunday, but he was touched by the grass-roots campaign to make it happen. (His quest to be the first M40 to run a sub-4 outdoor mile was even detailed across the country in the Washington […]

June 12, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Phil Raschker crushes heptathlon WR by 1,000 points

Phil Raschker turned 60 in February, so every time she competes it’s record time. Her latest WRs came at this past weekend’s USATF National Masters Heptathlon Championships in Hoover, Alabama — her outdoor season debut. Her friend and mentor Phil Mulkey writes: “Phil bettered the former (hep) record of Marianne Maier of Austria, in temperatures […]

June 11, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

USATF masters multis meet sizzles with records

Results have yet to be posted, but the USATF National Masters Decathlon/Heptathlon Championships over the weekend in Alabama was the scene of some very hot action, including world age-group records, I’ve been told. Our friend Stefan Waltermann writes: “It was a pretty wild weekend, to say the least. The first day was very hot with […]

June 11, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment