Archive for September, 2008

Who’s the top masters athlete in the world? Hint: Geb

Roger Ruth ranked the track 10K in his latest review of masters-age (over-35) athletes on the 2008 seasonal world lists. And he notes: “Wow! (Haile) Gebrselassie ranks even higher than Derek Miles did in the pole vault. Can any master-age athlete rank higher on this year’s world lists than Haile’s #3? What do you think?” […]

September 24, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Not just Ottey, Gault: Many masters on 100m world lists

Here’s more proof that when you seek, you shall find. Roger Ruth has identified two dozen men and women over 35 on the open world lists at 100 meters. “As I wrote in the initial post of this series,” Roger says, “the procedure is to sort Mirko Jalava’s World Deep Lists for each event by […]

September 23, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Ultraweight but late, masters pentathlon results online

Only men’s marks have been posted so far, but the USATF site now lists these results from the Sept. 6 USATF National Masters Ultraweight Pentathlon Championships in Seattle. Only three women were entered, so results for them shouldn’t be too far behind. Thanks go to Andy Martin of USATF for reformatting the results and getting […]

September 22, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Roger Ruth digging deep in open lists for masters marks

Roger Ruth of Victoria, Canada, was the pioneer masters vaulter — setting world age-group records in his 40s back in the early 1970s. He went 4.60 (15-1) at age 44 in an era when the world open record was about 18-2. He’s now 80, and retired from jumping. But he’s still a force to be […]

September 22, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

O’Meara notches 20th sub-5 mile of the summer at 45

The guy did it. Took him two more races than the 20 he first envisioned, but on the last day of summer David O’Meara of Sarasota ran his 20th mile in under 5 minutes. Results of this morning’s Fifth Avenue Mile in New York show that David ran 4:51. (Here’s the results page.) But David’s […]

September 21, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Reports from hurricane survivors trickle in from Texas

Hurricane Ike left the house a week ago, but many residents of Houston and parts north are just getting their power back and lives in order. Our masters track friends there are totaling up their losses, but keeping their sense of humor. One is Doug “Bubba” Sparks, an M55 pole vaulter from The Woodlands, north […]

September 20, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Thrower’s U.S. record noted by local paper, not USATF

Brian Sumpter of the Lake County Record-Bee south of Sacramento knows something that USATF doesn’t — that local thrower Mike Curry tied a national record a couple weekends ago. Brian’s story reports: “Competing in the age 40-44 division of the ultraweight pentathlon, Curry threw the 56-pound weight (also known as the superweight) 8.86 meters (29-1), […]

September 19, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

San Diego USATF unanimously adopts do-or-die bylaw

Faced with the possible loss of all 15 of its delegate votes at the USATF national convention in Reno, the San Diego-Imperial USATF Association voted unanimously last night to adopt an amendment to its bylaws. The amendment sets up a grievance procedure that all 57 associations have to approve by October 15. About two dozen […]

September 18, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Fifth Avenue Mile is finale for 20-under-5 miler O’Meara

One mile to go for David O’Meara of Sarasota, Fla. David O’Meara, who set a goal of running 20 straight sub-5 miles at age 45 last spring, has fallen short — thanks to miserable weather. According to his stats page and latest race report Monday, he clocked sub-5s on road miles 17 consecutive times before […]

September 17, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

New CEO of USATF addresses questions on masters track

Doug Logan parries queries on masters doping, records, budget. Doug Logan, the spunky new CEO of USA Track & Field, has been making news of late with his commentary on doping and other issues. Last week, he announced on his blog he would create an “Operating Audit Panel” to review USATF’s elite operations, since the […]

September 16, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  10 Comments