Archive for March, 2008
Helen “Speedy” Klein breaks own marathon world record
I usually ignore road results, but I have a soft spot for old ladies in Nikes. Yesterday, a bunch of masters dominated the Napa Valley Marathon, but the most amazing mark might be the 5:36:15 by ultradistance legend Helen Klein of Rancho Cordova, California. Helen is 85. She broke her own age-group record of last […]
March 3, 2008
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Pete Magill transitions to track, lowers 3000 AR
South Pasadena’s Pete Magill, whose cross country season ended at San Diego nationals with an M45 victory and third-place overall masters finish, has made the switch to track quite nicely, thank you. At Saturday’s USC Trojan Relays in Los Angeles, Pistol Pete ran 3,000 meters in 8:36.86, as these results confirm. That lowers his own […]
March 3, 2008
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Another trans-Atlantic pole vault rivalry: W50 vs. W50
Why should the men have all the fun? Jeff Kingstad’s back-and-forth M55 record exchange with Germany’s Wolfgang Ritte — the subject of this blog and then the cover of the current National Masters News — has a female analog. In England, W50 vaulter Jennifer Ibbitson hopes to top her American counterpart, Donna Schultz, who in […]
March 2, 2008
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Two WRs reported at Thursday Night at the Races
Our masters moles report two more world records set at the New York Road Runners’ Thursday Night at the Races. Two indoor 1500 WRs were set at the Armory track in New York City, according to a source who writes: “Last night was exciting at the NYRR meet. . . . W45 Zofia Wieciorkowska ran […]
March 1, 2008
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