Archive for February, 2008

British masters sprinter argues for ‘parity of esteem’

M50 sprinter Tom Phillips is an exceptional sports photographer in England who writes well, too. Recently he shared a link on our Forum to an article he wrote for the UK masters magazine. It’s posted below. The article recounts the evolution of his appreciation for masters track — starting at age 14 when he knew […]

February 21, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Canadian Olympic champ turns 40, targets masters

Dave MacEachern of Canada’s Prince Edward Island won bobsled gold at the Nagano Winter Olympics 10 years ago, and this article in his local paper says he’s keen to enter age-group meets: “MacEachern . . . plans to whip himself into even better shape to take a run at some future Masters Track and Field […]

February 20, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Photo gallery of XC nationals: Masters get primacy

Masters men’s winner Sean Wade, women’s champ Jody Hawkins and a cast of hundreds are featured in my photo gallery of last Saturday’s USA national cross country championships in San Diego, just 20 minutes from my home. I also got lotsa shots of women’s open winner Shalane Flanagan and men’s victor Dathan Ritzenhein, who qualified […]

February 19, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Race organizer: USATF rules cap first-place money

Doug Thompson’s SISU 800-meter Challenge event in Arizona has returned to a $500 first prize after briefly promoting a $650 prize for the top age-graded runner. Why? It appears that offering a prize over $500 might force his meet to do drug-testing. At least that’s the explanation Doug gave in an email to participants and […]

February 19, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

All-time greats aiming for hurdle WR at Modesto?

Several weeks ago, I was informed of a masters exhibition hurdle race planned for the Modesto Relays in California. The genesis of the event was former Olympic decathlon champ Dan O’Brien’s interest in setting an M40 world record in the 110 hurdles. He wanted to shoot for it at Modesto, I was told. But when […]

February 18, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Interview with Kay Glynn: dancing away with W55 record

Kay Glynn turned 55 just four days before setting her age-group’s indoor WR in the vault this month. But that’s just the latest chapter in a remarkable story. She’s a dance teacher and grandmother of two who dreams of doing the circus trapeze! To learn more about Kay, I first contacted one of her track […]

February 17, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Announcing mastershistory.org — a dream realized!

mastershistory.org contains thousands of pages of material in PDF format, dating to the earliest days of the masters track movement. Until this month, if you wanted to read back issues of David Pain’s legendary USMITT newsletters, you had to journey to San Diego and rummage through cardboard boxes in a rental unit. Until this month, […]

February 16, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

Allen Johnson, nearly 37, wins Tyson invite 60 hurdles

Allen Johnson, who turns 37 on March 1, tonight won the 60-meter hurdles at the elite Tyson invite in Arkansas, clocking 7.60 seconds. That’s just off his own M35 American indoor record of 7.54, which he did last weekend in Germany. (The listed M35 American record is 7.56 by Greg Foster in 1994.) Check out […]

February 15, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Treacher sets M65 record; indoor world entries listed

Anthony Treacher, the banned-in-2006 Briton, jumped in the Swedish masters indoor nationals last Saturday and broke the listed UK M65 indoor record in the long jump. His mark of 4.79 (15-8 1/2) pipped Tony Bateman’s 4.77, set in February 2003 in Glasgow, Scotland. Tony was a world champion at the 2003 Puerto Rico WMA meet. […]

February 15, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Marathoner Wieciorkowska sets W45 record for 800

Former marathoner Zofia Wieciorkowska, a Polish native who lives in Connecticut, tonight broke the W45 world indoor record for 800 meters, according to a report from the New York Armory and the New York Road Runners Club’s “Thursday Night at the Races“ meet. Zofia is said to have clocked 2:16.3, hand-timed. If confirmed, it smashes […]

February 14, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments