Archive for April, 2009

Central Park TC crushes M50 world record in 4×100 at Penn

The Central Park TC quartet of Randy Frey, Ben James, Tony Fulton and Val Barnwell wowed the crowd at yesterday’s Penn Relays, beating the listed M50 world record in the 4×100 relay. CPTC clocked 44.47 to take down the 44.99 by Bob Bowen, Ed Gonera, Bill Collins and Jesse Norman at 2003 Puerto Rico worlds. (See […]

April 25, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Earl Fee’s dietary secrets: enzymes, vitamins, fish oil . . .

In yet another wide-ranging superduper interview, blogger Pete Magill gets masters track legend Earl Fee, 80, to detail his dietary supplements. Earl, who has set 50 world age-group records, says: “I take calcium and magnesium in one mixture. I take co-enzyme 10. I take magnesium straight. Vitamin C and E. And grape seed extract, which is a […]

April 25, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Germans giving new Age-Graded Tables some test runs

Stefan Waltermann at Spokane nationals. Get ready for a new Age-Graded Tables. As we telegraphed in December, WMA is rolling out a new set of tables that treat some age groups more fairly. The AGT make it possible for multi-eventers to use the IAAF tables to score their events, no matter what their age. The AGT […]

April 25, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

David Nash claims another masters 800 title at Drake Relays

M40 David Nash won today’s masters 800-meter run at the Drake Relays, defending his 2008 crown and negotiating two laps in Des Moines in a field of 19 runners.  He won in 2:00.72, a couple seconds off his recent bests. David, now 41,  was the M35 national champion at 800 and 1500 at both the […]

April 24, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Make a Nike star out of M40 masters sprinter Scott Meier

M40 sprinter Scott Meier — a coach and teacher in Farmington, Minnesota —  is Rocky Balboa in spikes. See him run stairs, pull a sled, take block starts. In masters track, he’s not quite national-class. But man does he have heart. He also has a video entry in a contest sponsored by Nike and The Sports Authority […]

April 24, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Drake Relays vault conditions were ‘fantastic,’ Sparks says

Doug “Bubba” Sparks writes of the Drake Relays masters vault: “The meet conditions were fantastic with a nice day and warm tailwind – 75 (degrees) at jump time.  Sometimes when conditions are really good it throws your timing off just a little.  I struggled with that too.  And at our age, ‘a little’ can affect […]

April 23, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Lindenburg wins Drake masters vault as several studs NH

Hometown submaster David Lindenburg, 31, won the event, but the story of the Drake Relays masters vault was NH’s by potential record-setters M45 Paul Babits and M55 Jeff Kingstad. I’m unsure of the conditions, but Paul and Jeff apparently passed too often. They opened at 4.77 and 4.01, respectively — 15-7 3/4 and 13-1 3/4. Then […]

April 23, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

22 masters entered Friday in 800 meters at Drake Relays

Nearly two dozen men between the ages of 40 and 59 make up the field tomorrow in the masters 800 at the 100th Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. Notable is the Midwestern makeup of the entrants. All except mile race coordinator Mark Cleary are from neighboring states. This is good. Why should the Left […]

April 23, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Epidemic in results screw-ups? Siddons Games the latest

Nearly three weeks after the fact, I’ve received these results for the Al Siddons Games in Santa Ana, Calfornia. The annual meet, long known as the John Ward Masters Games, was April 5 at Santa Ana College. It’s now named after longtime Santa Ana College coach Al Siddons. But when Al ran the masters meet, […]

April 23, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

USATF press operation finally acknowledges our AOYs

USATF today formally announced our annual Masters Athletes of the Year — Bill Collins, Kathy Martin and Kay Glynn.  Finally. Indy was only five weeks late doing so. (And it buried the info in a News & Notes, rather than giving our folks a stand-alone, headlined release.) In fact, Indy had the information March 17, but the release was […]

April 22, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments