Archive for March, 2009

More highlights of Ontario masters meet: Canadian records

Complete results from the Ontario masters indoor championships haven’t been posted, but Doug Smith put up a stunning series of images. Most show new Canadian record holders, including my fave Karla Del Grande (only a little older than me but two seconds faster in the 200. Sigh.) Karla ran 8.54 to break Carol Lafayette-Boyd’s W55 […]

March 31, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

M65 champ Sasser uncertain about Lahti (Go, Glenn, go!)

Nice little story on M65 thrower Glenn Sasser in his local North Carolina newspaper. Although he’s the defending shot champion from Spokane and Landover, he’s not sure whether he’ll go to Lahti for worlds this summer. Glenn says: “Those boys in Germany are pretty good. One is really good. The other two are about like […]

March 31, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

W40 Aeron Arlin-Genet runs and tweets at Stanford Invite

Aeron at Stanford in 2008 A year ago, Aeron Arlin-Genet ran a potential W40 American record for 1500 meters of 4:27.68 at Stanford. I wrote about it here. She later ran a 4:21.6. Now almost 42, Aeron returned to Palo Alto yesterday and ran a tad slower: 4:30.79. But that’s about a 4:50 mile. Only […]

March 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Earl Fee snags his first M80 world record — indoors at 400

No breakdown of the timing system in Toronto. Yesterday at the Ontario Masters Indoor Championships, Earl Fee crushed the listed age-group WR in the 400. A week after turning 80 and being denied an 800 WR at Landover nationals amid the timing mess, The Great Earl clocked 1:11.23 — well under the 1:15.58 indoor world […]

March 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  10 Comments

Bill Collins and Rick Riddle write book for masters sprinters

First he’s named USATF Male Masters Athlete of the Year. Then he collects more medals at indoor nationals (despite a stress fracture in his right leg). And over the weekend he won a handicap 200 at Texas-Arlington (see the video on YouTube). Now we learn that he has a book coming out soon. Is Bill […]

March 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  9 Comments

Ancona uses YouTube to promote its Eurovets indoor meet

Geeze!  Are these guys cool or what? Folks organizing the Eurovets indoor meet in Ancona produced a series of promotional videos and posted them on YouTube. I wouldn’t be surprised if event clips eventually are posted there as well. In any case, private parties with camcorders and video-equipped mobile phones often shoot meets and post […]

March 29, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

WMA addresses Lahti entry fee ‘Mystification and Reality’

Deadlines are creeping up for Lahti worlds. USATF members, for example, have until May 15 to enter without a $34-per-event penalty. U.S. athletes have a drop-dead deadline of June 5. Entry fees vary from about $100 for single-event entrants to several hundred dollars. But the oddest note has just been posted on the WMA Web […]

March 29, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Masters exhibitions added to April meets at Hayward Field

The Oregon Track Club Masters has clout. Its membership provided many volunteers at the Olympic Trials last summer, and they’re influential in all things trackish in Track Town USA, Eugene. Now we learn from M40 runner Fidel Bañuelos  that the club is organizing a couple masters events just before the April 4 and April 18 Pepsi Team Invitational […]

March 29, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

World records galore at Eurovets; drug-tests require passport

Pete Mulholland of Running Fitness magazine in the UK reports on Days 2 and 3 (Thursday and Friday) at the European Veterans Indoor Athletics Championships in Ancona. An interesting revelation in Pete’s report: “There appears to be a high content of drug testing at the games but the main talking point is those who are […]

March 28, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Was Rono’s payday at Landover a good deal for masters?

Henry Rono says meet organizers paid all his expenses to compete at indoor nationals. Everyone knows that Henry Rono had a bad meet at Landover, running with a terrible cold and taking last in the 800 and mile (in times too shocking to mention on a family blog). Not well-known is that his trip to […]

March 28, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  13 Comments