Archive for January, 2008
Jeff Hartwig stays on trajectory to go 19 feet at age 40
Jaff Hartwig, continuing to defy age and gravity, yesterday cleared 5.65 (18-6 1/2) on his first try at a meet in Germany. He thus, again, shattered his own M40 world indoor pole vault record. In the process, the word “masters” has become ubiquitous in every report chronicling Jeff’s season. Technically, masters begins at 35, but […]
January 31, 2008
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Serbian ties world indoor masters HJ record! Not!
Now that I speak Italian, I move on to Slovak. Here’s a January 29 report from the SME newspaper of Slovakia of an indoor track meet in Budapest, Hungary: “BUDAPEŠŤ (MaÄŹarsko): BĂ˝valĂ˝ majster EurĂłpy v skoku do výšky (1990 Split) 36-roÄŤnĂ˝ Srb Dragutin TopiÄŤ vyrovnal na halovom mĂtingu veteránsky svetovĂ˝ rekord v kategĂłrii nad 35 […]
January 30, 2008
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Blogmaster takes show on a different road weekly
Will you forgive me? I’ve been unfaithful. Although this blog remains my No. 1 labor of love, I’ve been seduced to do another. About a month ago, editor Sean Callahan of Masters Athlete magazine (formerly GeezerJock) asked me to join a select rotation of masters athletes and observers writing a blog for his Web site. […]
January 30, 2008
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Jen Toomey toppled an Alisa Harvey mile record
Jen Toomey is 36. Last Saturday in Boston, she ran the mile at the Reebok indoor games in 4:36.27. You can look it up. The Boston Globe reports that Jen, who missed much of the 2006 and 2007 seasons to injury, wasn’t thrilled by the effort. “When asked how she felt about her time, Toomey […]
January 30, 2008
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Mutola falling out of deck, but McFarlane jumps back in
Two 35-year-old track stars (and therefore masters fodder) are in the news over their retirements, or recantings thereof. Jamaica’s Danny McFarlane, who holds the M35 world record in the 400 hurdles even if WMA doesn’t know it, has unretired, according to this report. The Jamaica Observer reports: “McFarlane, who will celebrate his 36th birthday in […]
January 29, 2008
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Raschker facing tennis, soccer stars for Atlanta honor
Phil Raschker, as we’ve reported, is up for Atlanta Amateur Athlete of the Year. Now we know her competition: two Melanies — a tennis star and a soccer goalie. Here’s part of the press release: “Finalists . . . include: Amateur Athlete Of The Year – The metro Atlanta amateur athlete who demonstrates outstanding personal […]
January 29, 2008
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McBarnette takes M50 record even higher — again
Don Riggs of the Potomac Valley Track Club in the D.C area is reporting the latest M50 high jump record by Bruce McBarnette. Don writes that “McBarnette continued his assault on the masters 50+ high jump record at Sunday’s Sportplex Showcase. After setting the American record at 1.87 meters during the previous Showcase meet, Bruce […]
January 28, 2008
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New theory on why GeezerJock became Masters Athlete
Los Angeles Daily News sportswriter/blogger Tom Hoffarth thinks he knows why GeezerJock magazine shed its name and became Masters Athlete magazine: It’s the president, stupid. In this case, the president is William Kupper, head of Turnstile Publishing Company, which bought GeezerJock last summer. Basically, it’s because Kupper is an old fuddy-duddy with no sense of […]
January 28, 2008
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Jearl-Miles Clark just misses world indoor record at 400
Olympian Jearl Miles-Clark, 41, took third in Heat 4 in the 4 at the Penn State National Invitational this past Friday in University Park, Pennsylvania. No big deal, except for the fact she beat the American indoor age-group record of 57.40 by Lesia Batiste in 2003. Jearl ran 57.09 — just a sneeze short of […]
January 27, 2008
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Alisa Harvey lowers 800 AR, inches closer to the Trials
Alisa Harvey is serious about qualifying for the Olympic Trials at age 42. Friday night at Penn State University, she scorched the 800 in 2:07.08, nipping her own W40 American indoor record of 2:07.23 — set two years ago! Here are complete results. This puts her REALLY close to 2:06.50, the “B” qualifying standard for […]
January 27, 2008
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