Archive for October, 2007

Clemson plans three masters-friendly throws meets

Coach Glenn McAtee at Clemson University in South Carolina has sent information on a series of three indoor throws meets at Clemson’s facility. He’ll act as meet director of the 2008 Clemson Indoor Throws Fest Series, which actually kicks off Dec. 2, 2007. The other two meets are Jan. 20 and Feb. 24, 2008. The […]

October 24, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Trackos debate Stacy Dragila’s chances for Beijing

Stacy Dragila holds the W35 world record in the vault at 14-9, but upping the mark isn’t her focus for 2008. It’s getting back to the Games, where she would be 37 years old. This thread on the T&FN message board talks about her chances. Former M40 vault WR man Roger Ruth, meanwhile, has been […]

October 24, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Southern California wildfires displace many masters

With evacuation orders coming almost hourly, many masters friends of ours are subject to mandatory get-out-of-theres in several SoCal counties, notably San Diego, where 300,000 residents have grabbed stuff and skedaddled. If you know the status of any local masters athletes, please post a note here. Earlier this afternoon, my family went shopping at the […]

October 22, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Masters may be invited to inaugural women’s deca

On Aug. 30-31, 2008, a women’s decathlon will be held at Eugene, Oregon’s Hayward Field in a meet called the Belladeca. It’s being touted as the female version of the fabled Gotzis and Talence men’s deca meets. The Belladeca Web site still isn’t up. But the event has triggered lots of chatter on the T&FN […]

October 21, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Italian posts some Riccione race videos on YouTube

Thank goodness. Someone with a camcorder in the stands at Riccione recorded nearly two dozen races at Riccione worlds and posted them on YouTube. They are mostly in the 35-39 and 40-44 age groups. The previous videos of the meet were more like MTV music videos with cuts so quick your head spins. These videos […]

October 20, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Dutch high jump champion can’t get over size of worlds

On our Forum Monday, Weia Reinboud wrote: “I am curious of opinions about the world championships. My personal opinion is that they have grown too big — in Riccione nearly 9,000 competitors each doing about 2 events. There were three stadia, far away from each other. Although there were many buses specially for us, you […]

October 19, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  11 Comments

Hartwig calls it a season, but he’ll be back in 2008

Supervet vaulter Jeff Hartwig, who turned 40 in late September, has quit competing for the season, he wrote me today from Arkansas. “Yokohama was miserable,” Jeff writes, “and I took it as a sign that it was time to be done for the year. I took a couple weeks off and now I am back […]

October 18, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Milt Silverstein planning comeback, targets M90 records

Milt Silverstein is a Penn Relays masters superstar and many-times champion in the sprints and jumps. But in late 2002, he declared his retirement in a letter to National Masters News. Thank goodness he didn’t mean it. (He sat out 2003 but returned in 2004 and 2005, when he stopped again.) I recently learned from […]

October 18, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Pete Magill exorcises demons at 5K XC nationals

Most national champions get a chance to savor their victories. Not Pete Magill. On Sunday, this Southern Californian won the USATF masters 5K cross-country title, clocking the best time of all 40-and-overs despite being 46. His 15:17 (a 4:55 mile pace!) also was the top age-graded mark among the men, worth an open time of […]

October 17, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

USATF may end pentathlon at masters nationals

Former USATF Masters T&F Chairman George Mathews, mindful of the heat emergency at Charlotte nationals in 2006, wants to downsize masters nationals (indoors as well) by eliminating the pentathlon. He made this proposal at the 2006 USATF annual meeting in Indy. But it was tabled and is being revived this November at the convention in […]

October 16, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  33 Comments