Archive for May, 2009
Mary Harada: ‘Racing 90% psychological and 10% physical’
Mary running in 2006. Mary Harada, the W70 distance star and frequent commenter on this blog, shared some of her running wisdom with Carmel Papworth-Barnum in this recent interview. I liked this especially: “I try to use that sense of anxiety before a race to make myself focus on my race plan. If I don’t […]
May 27, 2009
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Update: Chuck McMahon meet canceled for 2009, will return
Seven hours earlier today, I posted this note: “Oy vey. Folks in the San Diego-Imperial USATF Association apparently got my note about the mystery meet (open to officials but not athletes). They have now set the Chuck McMahon Memorial / San Diego USATF Association Masters Championships for Saturday, July 11. (See the schedule here.) But […]
May 26, 2009
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My wife steps up her game: She’s tackling 60-mile 3-Day Walk
Many of you know my wife, Chris. She thinks big. Her recent adventures include photographing masters nationals, working at the Democratic National Convention and attending the Obama inauguration. Now she’s taking on a major athletic challenge: the San Diego 3-Day — a 60-mile walk six months from now. It’s a legendary fundraiser for the Susan. […]
May 26, 2009
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Eugene nationals loom, but masters women’s 1,500 at risk
Last year’s Olympic Trials featured two masters exhibition races — a men’s 3000 with several dozen studs won by Tony Young and an exciting women’s 200, won by Donna Lawrence after coming from behind in the last 20 meters. A month from now, the USATF open championships return to Eugene, Oregon. And they’ll see masters as well. Or maybe not in the women’s case. As […]
May 26, 2009
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More world records for golden 65-69 group: men’s shot, 4×4
Guess it’s great to be just north of 65. Nadine O’Connor’s vault record is the tip of the iceberg. Germany’s Kurt Goldschmidt, throwing at a Hamburg meet on May 21, put the shot 15.90 meters (52-2), raising his own M65 world record of 15.78 (51-9 1/4) from last year. Kurt also tossed the discus 50.55 […]
May 25, 2009
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Pete Magill quits Fluffy Bunny Track Club in dustup with Nike
Pete Magill, the M45 distance champ and blogger deluxe, revealed on a letsrun.com message board yesterday that he has up and quit the powerhouse track club he helped anchor for several years. The chief Fluffy Bunny is hopping away, perhaps to form a new track club not beholden to Nike. Apparently, a Nike rep went […]
May 25, 2009
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Masters Athlete blogger seeks 50-plus athletes for interviews
Don McGrath writes at Masters Athlete magazine: “I’m a lifelong athlete who is turning 46 years old this year, and still very passionate about my sport. I am looking around the bend to my fifties and beyond and thinking about how I can continue to enjoy this important part of my life. I have embarked […]
May 25, 2009
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Marie-Louise Michelsohn takes 2 minutes off W65 10K record
Marie-Louise ran at Spokane nationals. Marie-Louise Michelsohn says conditions were chilly, “about 50 degrees (with a) scotch mist,” but had no problem demolishing the listed W65 American record in the track 10,000 yesterday. She clocked 44:47.58 at the USATF Pacific Association Open Championships at College of San Mateo, south of San Francisco. “The old record […]
May 25, 2009
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Nadine O’Connor goes back to the future: latest vault WR
Running pain-free at last and with help from an aiding breeze, Nadine O’Connor, 67, raised her own W65 world record in the pole vault yesterday to 3.13 meters (10-3 1/4) at the Southern California Striders Meet of Champions at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.  Her previous record was 3.07 (10-0 3/4) from 2008. But […]
May 24, 2009
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Carl Wallin, friend of masters track, retiring at Dartmouth
Carl Wallin ready to rock the ring again. Carl Wallin, a legendary field events coach at Dartmouth in New Hampshire and a 1989 world masters shot put champion, is retiring at the end of this season, and the big questions became: What becomes of the Dartmouth Relays, whose annual masters indoor component he began in […]
May 23, 2009
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