Archive for May, 2009

Christine Müller zaps own world record in W50 short hurdles

Europe must be track and field heaven.  Latest proof is a meet they held in Basel, Switzerland, a week ago.  Sprints and hurdles only. All age groups. Odds distances — including 60 meters, 150 and 300. And it was outdoors with some kind of IAAF connection!  No wonder that 2008 IAAF Masters Athlete of the […]

May 23, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Alisa Harvey cheers USATF choice for high-performance czar

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley: Oly champ Masters track may not benefit directly from USATF’s selection of Benita Fitzgerald Mosley as its new chief of sport performance, “responsible for overseeing all of USATF’s High Performance and Sport Science programs.” But if USATF gets more money and marketing, some resources might trickle down to masters. Benita is a University of […]

May 22, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Richard Holmes, masters hurdler, coaching top-ranked prep

I’m probably naive, but I think masters athletes who coach have some kind of built-in advantage. While we desk jockeys toil for eight hours a day, coaches are outdoors training with their kids. One part-time coach is M40 national champion Richard Holmes. And his prize pupil is one of the best under-18 girl hurdlers in the world — […]

May 21, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Another theory behind Landover debacle: Hy-Tek complexity

Andy Hecker, risking further USATF Dog Housedom, has written me about the Landover results and timing mess. His take?  Blame the software underlying the timing operation, called Hy-Tek. It’s the industry standard, but it’s notoriously glitchy and hard to customize for masters meets. “I want this to be easy,” Andy concludes. “That way the function of […]

May 21, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

WMA swats down rogue report on 2012, 2013 championships

No surprise here. As noted two weeks ago, WMA has NOT chosen meet venues for the 2012 indoor and 2013 outdoor worlds. Today, the WMA Web site declared: “WMA has been made aware of some public statements made relating to World Championship awards for Indoor 2012 and Stadia 2013. These statements are neither authorized nor true. […]

May 20, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Sandy Pashkin running for World Masters Athletics office

Sandy Pashkin, multi-tasker and ex-runner. As George Mathews notes in a recent comment, USATF records czar Sandy Pashkin of Oregon is a candidate for vice president-stadia of World Masters Athletics. Her only rival at this point is Serge Beckers of Belgium. The election is at Lahti worlds this summer. Serge, in his late 40s, is a […]

May 20, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Carmel chats up Aeron Arlin Genet, Marie-Louise Michelsohn

Pete Magill finally has some competition in the masters runner Q&A League. Carmel Papworth Barnum, the former editor of National Masters News, just posted a wonderful chat with W40 miler Aeron Arlin Genet.  It’s No. 6 in a running series. The big news: Aeron, 41, says she’ll enter the masters women’s exhibition 1500 next month at […]

May 19, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Gary Snyder offers first official explanation of Landover mess

In a blog entry dated yesterday, USATF Masters T&F Committee Chairman Gary Snyder admits that final results posted on usatf.org are what they are, and “a number of events will never have a time and are indicated by NT. If any of you feel there is still an error, the only process remaining is to […]

May 19, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Online entry arrives, finally, for USA Masters Throws Champs

With three months to go, the USA Masters National Throws Championships finally has its entry process straightened out. Here’s the entry page, which until very recently was messed up or hard to find. (I wrote about this a couple weeks ago.) In addition, Mac Wilkins’ Concordia Throw Center in Portland, Oregon (site of the meet) […]

May 18, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Chuck McMahon masters meet? It’s on a need-to-know basis

What if they gave a track meet and only officials showed up? Don’t laugh. That’s the scenario suggested in San Diego County.  The annual Chuck McMahon Memorial Masters Meet isn’t listed on the USATF events calendar or the San Diego-Imperial Association masters page.  However, the officials page for San Diego-Imperial USATF shows the meet as being […]

May 17, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments