Archive for April, 2008

Jeff Laynes, Aaron Thigpen post quick 100s at Cal meet

Jeff Laynes, 37, improved his season best for the 100 by running a legal 10.31 Saturday at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational in Berkeley. He also dropped a wind-aided deuce of 20.92. Aaron Thigpen, 43, clocked a legal 10.93 in the prelims. And in the 110 hurdles (42-inch variety), Peter Grimes posted a nifty 16.21. Not […]

April 27, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Gault vs. Gay featured in Mt. SAC Relays masters gallery

How often do we see 47-year-olds within spitting distance of Tyson Gay in a sprint race? Like once in history. In the Mt. SAC Relays photo gallery posted here, Willie is shown valiantly pursuing IAAF world sprint champion Tyson on the anchor leg of the 4×100 relay. In the masters sprints at Mt. SAC, Aaron […]

April 27, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Penn also saw W40 women’s, M70 men’s WRs in 4×400

Jearl Miles-Clark, the four-time Olympian, teamed with Charmaine Roberts, Renee Henderson and Jane Brooker at Penn on Friday to lower the W40 world record in the 4×400. Running as East Coast Masters, the quartet anchored by Jearl ran 3:56.27 against some men’s teams. The listed W40 WR is 3:57.28 by an Aussie team at the […]

April 27, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

M45 John Hinton burns a cool 4:26 mile at Drake Relays

Meanwhile in Des Moines, Iowa, masters ran the 800 Friday and mile today in bitterly cold and windy weather at the Drake Relays. M45 John Hinton, traveling from North Carolina, easily won the masters mile in 4:26.87 — 10 seconds off the listed WR of 4:16.75 by New Zealand’s David Sirl. John needs a rabbit, […]

April 26, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Collins’ clocking at Penn Relays misreported as M55 WR

Southwest Sprinters TC won the featured masters 4×400 at Penn today, and I mean featured. Unlike some open invitationals than shunt the masters to the earliest hour of the meet, the M40 4×4 took place in the primest of prime time — in front of 50,000 fans right after Allyson Felix’s team won the women’s […]

April 26, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Sprint Force America claims M70 4×1 WR at Penn Relays

FerringUSA’s sponsorship of Sprint Force America has already paid off. The M70 SFA team of Gary Sims, Wayne Bennett, Larry Colbert and Bob Lida clocked a sensational 51.96 today in the 4×100 relay at Penn to smash the listed age-group world record of 53.03 by Germany at the 2005 San Sebastian world meet. (The event […]

April 25, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

WMA links to handy-dandy index of naughty substances

American masters needn’t worry about being drug-tested at domestic meets. USATF has no budget for it. But if lightning strikes while you’re at a WMA world or European masters meet, and you’re asked to relieve yourself in a labeled bottle, it’s good to know what’s kosher. So World Masters Athletics has teamed with an outfit […]

April 25, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Coach Frank Schiro saluted in neighborhood NYC paper

Frank Schiro, a world-class M55 long sprinter, also goes a long way to helping out fellow athletes. In a touching story in this week’s The Villager, we learn: ” ‘Besides preparing for races myself, I coach other people, and with certain adjustments I have improved the time of many runners who are over 50,’ says […]

April 24, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  9 Comments

Marie Kay indoor world records get major ink Down Under

Down Under, they have the coolest place names. The city of Wollongong in New South Wales (on Australia’s southeast coast) is one of them. And its top female masters athlete may be W45 sprinter Marie Kay. And cool is what you call the haul of medals she brought home from Clermont-Ferrand worlds. Her local paper […]

April 24, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Bunn denies posting false marks on mastersrankings.com

Yesterday’s post about discrepancies between Steve Bunn’s times on mastersrankings.com and the actual meet results has brought a response — from Steve Bunn. In a comment posted this morning, he writes (in part): “I can assure you all that I have NOT manipulated any times posted on the site nor have I personally submitted any […]

April 23, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  25 Comments