Archive for January, 2009

Tony Young runs 4:13 mile indoors at 46! Record to be nixed

Tony Young, still trying to be the fastest miler in his household, clocked an ungodly 4:13.25 this morning at a University of Washington indoor meet to beat the listed WMA indoor mile world record of 4:21.90  by Albin Swenson  in 1993 and his own outdoor world record of 4:16.09  he set last year in Gresham, […]

January 31, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  9 Comments

Travel agency hits Left Coast to hype World Masters Games

Nicky Cox of Goway Travel Groups in Vancouver, British Columbia, is the point lady in promoting her agency’s tours to the World Masters Games in Sydney, Australia, in October 2009. How serious is she?  Well, she writes that “we are hitting the West Coast in February to promote the Games and talk Australia.  World Masters […]

January 31, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

National Senior Games lowering standards to raise entries?

I’m on the mailing list of the National Senior Games Association — which is organizing the National Senior Olympics this summer in the S.F. Bay Area. And today’s email has this intriguing declaration: “The NSGA has announced that 4th place finishers in all 2008 Qualifying Games in all individual sports (except tennis, cycling and golf) […]

January 31, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Dragila tops 15 feet at Millrose for W35 world indoor record

Stacy Dragila, who turns 38 in March, took second to the Beijing silver medalist tonight at the Millrose Games in New York City. Stacy’s consolation prize was setting a W35 world indoor record in the vault. She cleared 4.61 meters (15-1 1/2) on her second try, destroying the listed WMA world indoor record of 4.25 […]

January 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Millrose Games have featured masters for decades, we see

Although boomers invented sex, we didn’t launch masters track. We’re reminded of that as we await tonight’s Millrose Games, which will have masters relays, as usual. How usual? The 4Ă—4 relays (at least for men) go back to 1980, according to Rich Rizzo, one of the pioneers. Here are two shots Rich sent from the […]

January 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Poll on qualifying standards: Should WMA/USATF have ’em?

This issue never dies. We’ve been debating it almost since the beginning of time (or this blog began). The latest explosion came in comments for this false start of a blog entry. (Here’s another lively discussion.) So let’s see what the silent majority thinks.

January 29, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Heroes of Hartshorne share rabbit details, record ambitions

Jim Sorensen, Alisa Harvey and Nolan Shaheed — men’s and women’s elite winners at last weekend’s Hartshorne masters miles plus the age-graded champ — have replied to my quickie queries on their New York minutes. They expand on the issue of rabbits. Some helped and some couldn’t keep up the pace. But it’s all a […]

January 29, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Alastair Dunlop dashes M55 world indoor record in 1500

In this report from across the Pond, we learn: “Stornoway’s Alastair Dunlop set a world masters indoor age 55 record of 4min 24.39sec in the 1,500 metres at the Scottish closed championships at the Kelvin Hall on Saturday (Jan. 17).” Alastair’s time beats the listed WMA world indoor record of 4:26.7 by California’s Nolan Shaheed […]

January 28, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Mary Roman adds W70 American record to her collection

Mary Roman, a W70 multi-eventer in Connecticut featured on this blog before, has another record. Competing at the 40th Dartmouth Relays three weeks ago in Hanover, N.H., Mary put the 3-kilogram shot 8.25 meters (27-1) to beat the listed American indoor record of 8.15 (26-9) by Colorado’s Christel Donley at Boston nationals in 2006. Mary also holds […]

January 28, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

Qualifying standards for 2010 indoor worlds at Kamloops?

So Lahti worlds this summer is a little dear (as the Brits say)?  Then c’mon up to Kamloops in 2010, as the Canadians might say.  The Kamloops world indoor masters championships now has a website for your surfing pleasure. But one mystery pertains. On the Athletes page, we read: “Qualification for Entry. . . To […]

January 27, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  14 Comments