Archive for April, 2009
Hartwig to MC masters vault exhibition at Drake Relays
How cool is this? Not only do the masters vaulters jumping Thursday at the 100th Drake Relays rate their own press release, but they also get a celebrity MC — none other than M40 world record holder and 2008 Olympian Jeff Hartwig! Too bad he’s not vaulting in Des Moines as well. The 10-man field […]
April 22, 2009
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New photos of Landover meet (but same old sucky results)
The meet ended a month ago, but now I see a new batch of 157 shots  from “Day 2” of Landover posted on the USATF page devoted to indoor nationals. Great images of Bill Collins, Neni Lewis, Rita Hanscom, Mary Harada, Phil Raschker, Kathy Martin and dozens of others — by Cheryl Treworgy. Of course, the results are […]
April 22, 2009
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Courageous Carmel Papworth-Barnum wades onto the Web
Carmel, the new webmistress. Carmel Papworth-Barnum loves taking risks, venturing outside her comfort zone. (She married a world-class sprinter a couple decades her senior, after all.) And she moved from her home in southern Australia to northern Nevada. Now Carmel, the former editor of National Masters News, is moving onto the Web. She writes: “I wanted to share […]
April 21, 2009
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MacLeod, Bellaire and Henderson also speedy this weekend
Mt. SAC was great, but it wasn’t the only major meet to feature masters. Up at Hayward Field, masters ran the 100 and 800 at the UCLA-Oregon dual meet Saturday. Results are posted here. Perhaps the top mark was an 800 in 3:46.68 by Suzi MacLeod, not far off the listed W75 American record  3:37.19 by Pearl Mehl […]
April 20, 2009
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Photo gallery features masters at Mt. SAC, Gault and Harvey
I’ve just posted 90 photos of masters exhibitions at the weekend’s Mt. SAC Relays. Also are many shots of Alisa Harvey in her invitational 800 race Saturday and Willie Gault after his legal 10.80 in an open 100. Why no shots of him running? My camera jammed. (It was on a setting where it wouldn’t […]
April 20, 2009
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Rod Jett overhauls Don Drummond to win Mt. SAC hurdles
Rod Jett, 42, coaches sprinters at Jesuit High School in Sacramento, and last year he said: “For years, we’ve been a distance school. For the last couple of years, I’ve tried to change that.” One way is being a role model for his kids. Yesterday at the Mt. SAC Relays, Rod stormed from behind over the […]
April 19, 2009
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Alisa Harvey hangs with the elites in women’s 800 at Mt. SAC
W40 superstar Alisa Harvey of Virginia flew out Friday to compete Saturday in theambien price women’s invitational 800-meter run at the Mt. SAC Relays east of L.A. The original schedule promised one race — with 19 Buy Clomid Online women. Gulp! Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed on a beautiful sunny day in the high 80s. Officials […]
April 19, 2009
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Bill Collins, recovering from stress fracture, will run Penn
In yet another crackerjack interview on his Younger Legs for Older Runners blog, Pete Magill quotes M55 superstar Bill Collins as saying that Landover’s unbanked track did his previously incurred stress fracture no good. “I started easing up after coming off the last turn (of the 200),” Bill said. “I was afraid that I’d really done […]
April 19, 2009
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Monica Joyce crushes W50 world record in 5K at Mt. SAC
Flying under the radar but at incredible speed, 50-year-old Monica Joyce ran the women’s 5000 at Mt. SAC Friday night in 16:19.51, bettering the listed W50 world record of  17:17.02 by Sweden’s Jutta PedersĂ©n in 1997. The listed American record is even older: 17:25.6 by Shirley Matson in September 1991. Pray that Monica had the presence of […]
April 18, 2009
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Mt. SAC masters exhibition videos posted on FloTrack.org
A video camera in the pressbox high in the west stands captured the masters 100s and 200 at Mt. SAC Friday. (I’m still looking for the men’s 800.) Narration was iffy, but the camera was steady. Here is the men’s 100, won by a comebacking John Speed. Here is the women’s 100, won by Joy […]
April 18, 2009
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