Archive for February, 2009
Extremely precious WAVA newsletters (1980-82) are posted
USATF’s online museum, mastershistory.org, now features seven rare newsletters from the early years of the World Association of Veteran Athletes. How rare? Only 375 souls subscribed to this official publication between 1980 and its demise in 1982. Low-tech but high-minded, this Canadian-based quarterly succeeded the better known Veteris magazine out of Britain. The WAVA newsletter […]
February 10, 2009
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Fluffy Bunnies fall at USATF cross country championships
Track stars ventured out on the trails at the USATF Cross Country Championships over the weekend in Derwood, Maryland. Missing from the mix was perennial champ Pete Magill, spiritual leader of the Fluffy Bunnies club. He wrote on letsrun.com: “Congrats to the Baltimore/Washington Athletic Club on nipping my Fluffy Bunnies in the M40-49 team competition in […]
February 9, 2009
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Shop online here! And support your favorite masters blog
You may have noticed a new link above right, called trackstore. This leads to an amazon.com site where I’ve created a bookstore and other shops of interest to adult trackfolk. Called an aStore, this enterprise is in association with Amazon. This arrangement helps support this site and our goal of total world domination  (Also see […]
February 9, 2009
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Mathews ups weight record; masters men shine at Reebok
On Friday, George Mathews drove a couple hours down from his home in Hayden Lake to Moscow, Idaho, and threw his 20-pound weight with the collegians at the Vandal Invitational. The result: his second world record in two weeks. George pushed his M65 WR of 19.33 (63-5) out to a jaw-dropping 19.93 (65-4 3/4). Results […]
February 8, 2009
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Spearchucker Ralph Roylance was the real deal in 1950s
Ralph Roylance, a gent I never heard of, was profiled in his local Utah paper this week. He hasn’t competed in masters track for a while, but still skis at 83. What caught my attention was this: “He toured Europe competing in track meets and learning how to better throw the javelin. Roylance earned All-American honors […]
February 7, 2009
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Payton Jordan dies at 91; greatest masters sprinter, backer
Payton Jordan was The Man in masters track. Hall of Famer Payton Jordan, one of the most prolific masters record-setters in history and certainly our greatest age-group sprinter, died of cancer yesterday at his new home in Laguna Hills, according to news reports and his daughter. He would have turned 92 in mid-March. This is […]
February 6, 2009
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Masters all-star hurdle race in the works for Mt. SAC Relays
Richard Holmes, a world-class M40 short hurdler in Southern California, is working with Mt. SAC Relays honcho Brian Yokoyama to offer an invitational masters 110 hurdles race (39-inch barriers, I assume) at the Relays this coming April in Walnut, California. Richard is the point man — meaning he picks the nine-man field. So if you’re interested, write him […]
February 6, 2009
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Japanese gent crushes M60 world record in the marathon
Hosaka happy after record. Yoshihisa Hosaka of Japan can run a mile in 6 minutes. Not bad for a 60-year-old. But that’s effin’ INSANE as a pace for a marathoner. Last Sunday, ol’ Yoshi ran 26.2 miles in 2:36:30, beating the listed M60 world record of 2:38:15 by Italy’s Luciano Aquarone in 1991 at the […]
February 5, 2009
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Aeron Genet’s training secrets revealed by Coach Rubio
W40 miler Aeron Arlin Genet made a big splash in 2008. Now we know her secrets. Her old coach, Joe Rubio, stole the best ideas from a book called “Better Training for Distance Runners” by Dr. David Martin and Peter Coe (Seb’s dad). Coach Ross Dunton found a long discussion of Aeron’s training and sent it […]
February 5, 2009
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USATF officials get an official Code of Ethics: No smoking!
The USATF National Officials Committee also did some business last December at Reno. They approved an official’s Code of Ethics. Unsure if this is a first, but it’s new to me. Among other things, officials can’t smoke, drink or chew tobacco while overseeing events. Didn’t know these were a problem. But now y’all know what […]
February 4, 2009
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