Archive for September, 2008
Seven strongwomen get moment in sun: nationals results
Three weeks after the fact, women’s results are now posted for the USATF National Masters Ultraweight Pentathlon Championships in Seattle. Click here to see how the seven women did. USATF doesn’t list records for the ultraweight penta, so maybe the Seattle winners are record-holders by default. In any case, congrats to gold medalists Laura Jinkins […]
September 30, 2008
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Jock Jocoy dies at 82; horse expert was deca champion
Jock Jocoy last competed in 2001, in M75 sprints. Jock Jocoy, a race-horse doctor and former masters decathlon record-holder who competed into his mid-70s, died Saturday at his home in Southern California, says this report and old friends. In the mid-1980s, Jock set a world record in the decathlon for 58-year-old men at 4,238 points, […]
September 30, 2008
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Introducing our store! Shop masterstrack.com for gifts
It’s 5 days to Christmas or Hanukkah, and you don’t know what to buy your running, jumping or throwing dad, wife or neighbor! What to do? Have we got a store for you! Thanks to my son Bobby and his design skills, masterstrack.com now has an outpost on CafePress featuring all manner of masters track […]
September 29, 2008
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Twenty-five reported as Masters Hall of Fame nominees
Coach Ross Dunton of Tennessee has emailed a newsletter that lists 15 men and 10 women as nominees for the USATF Masters Hall of Fame. Among the shoo-ins are sprinter Roger Pierce and all-around runner Marie-Louise Michelsohn. Tom Langenfeld and Audrey Lary are also a lock. My friends Kathy Bergen and Jim Selby of Southern […]
September 29, 2008
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Gebrselassie lowers marathon world record at age 35
Don’t trust anyone under 35. If you really want to be a serious runner, wait till you’re 35. Although I hesitate to discuss roadies on a masters track blog, I can’ resist crowing about the latest masters superstar: Haile Gebrselassie, who broke the 2:04 barrier today in the Berlin Marathon. Check out the IAAF report […]
September 28, 2008
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Photos of Spokane nationals capture spectacular action
They’re up. Nearly 400 photos taken by my wife, Chris, and moi tell the story of last month’s Spokane nationals unlike any written narrative. Click here for series of shots, including Liz Palmer step-for-step with Joy Upshaw-Margerum in the 80-meter hurdles. Rita Hanscom passing a falling Amanda Scotti just yards from the finish of the […]
September 28, 2008
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Feats of clay for mighty statmeister Mirko Jalava?
Mirko Jalava of Finland is considered one of the world’s top track statisticians, but I’m having doubts about his fact-checking (or at least keyboarding). In Roger Ruth’s latest data dump — searching for over-35 athletes on Mirko’s 2008 season lists at his pay site — two sprinters are listed with wildly inaccurate dates of birth. […]
September 27, 2008
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Mile maven David O’Meara promises to do masters at 50
David O’Meara, 45, had barely returned home to Sarasota when he sent me a note thanking me for supporting his mile quest (which included his 20th sub-5 mile Sunday at Fifth Avenue). (See him in a cute NYC video here.) I replied with a set of questions, led off with the key one: So, like, […]
September 26, 2008
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5,000 German fans bid farewell to retiring Jeff Hartwig
The German track Web site reports that 5,000 spectators waved white handkerchiefs in an emotional farewell gesture yesterday to M40 Jeff Hartwig, who turned 41 today. Jeff apparently competed in his final elite vault competition at Aachen. Despite low temps and rain, Jeff took fifth out of 12 with a jump of 5.40 (17-8 1/2), […]
September 25, 2008
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W40 Sara Davis named coach at Texas A&M-Commerce
We love to see masters athletes promoted at work, especially when they’re track coaches. (Gives them more opportunities to train!) So we’re delighted to pass along the news that Sara Davis, a national-class sprinter who competed at 2006 and 2007 masters nationals, is the new women’s track coach at Texas A&M University’s Commerce campus. She […]
September 25, 2008
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