Archive for January 31, 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
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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
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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
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