Archive for June, 2009
Major survey says old age begins at 68! Not for us folks, tho
Pete Magill linked to this great demographic/opinion survey. It says: “When Does Old Age Begin? At 68. That’s the average of all answers from the 2,969 survey respondents. But as noted above, this average masks a wide, age-driven variance in responses. More than half of adults under 30 say the average person becomes old even […]
June 30, 2009
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Check-in confusion at Oshkosh? Here’s the latest poop
Several athletes and meet officials have been exchanging email on a simple question: If your running event at Oshkosh goes straight to final, do you have to check in the day before for a phantom prelim? What followed wasn’t so simple. Someone wrote to assistant meet director Jason Fast, and he punted the query to […]
June 30, 2009
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Texas Masters Championships features hot sprints, throws
Wayne Bennett, the fastest 72-year-old meet director in the West, shares results from Saturday’s Texas Masters Championships at Coppell High School north of Dallas. Some nice Southwest sprint times noted. Besides Wayne’s own 14.40 and 30.82, I liked M40 John Simpson’s 11.10 and 22.99 and M60 Bill Lewis’ 12.99 — but he was DNF in […]
June 30, 2009
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Coke star sets M90 world record for 800 meters in Italy
Earl Fee, lissen up. Stay healthy and vertical. In 2019, you may be chasing this new 800-meter world record. Andrea Benatti reports from Italy that 90-year-old Ugo Sansonetti set a world age-group record over the weekend, clocking 4:28.07 at the Italian Masters Championships in Cattolica (near Riccione). That nips the listed M90 WR of 4:28.20 by Australia’s […]
June 29, 2009
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Ortman, W50 relay star at Portland masters meet; videos up
Fidel Banuelos graciously reports this online archive of videos he shot at yesterday’s Portland masters meet. Fidel writes, “You can do a search on flotrack under my name (fidel) for more videos, but here are assorted videos from the pdxmasters meet this weekend.  If you go to minute 4:20 (into the video), the relay team […]
June 29, 2009
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Gosa, Arlin Genet claim masters exhibitions at USA nationals
Duane Gosa upset world champ Robert Thomas today to win the men’s masters exhibition 400 at the USA open championships in Eugene, Oregon. Duane, about 44, went 49.92 in windy conditions on a sunny day in the low 70s. Robert, with the best seed time of 49.76, was inexplicably assigned to lane 1. Minutes earlier, Aeron […]
June 28, 2009
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Carter Holmes continues his comeback from coma, cardiac
Consider this a miracle. M55 multi-eventer Carter Holmes yesterday ran the 100-meter dash in 2:07.82 and the 400 in 9:10.24. But then consider this: He spent four days in a coma after a massive heart attack in February 2008, and could barely stand for a long time. Jim Schoffman reports: “Carter . . .  returned […]
June 28, 2009
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Jim Hammond dies at 95, tragically deprived of WR dreams
Last September, Minneapolis sprinter Jim Hammond told a local reporter: “I’m going for world records next year,” referring to his goal of setting M95 bests at this summer’s National Senior Olympics in Palo Alto. A widower and legally blind at 94, he seemed to be on his way, as I noted at the time. But […]
June 28, 2009
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Four-day rest break at 2012 Trials? What to do, what to do?
USATF CEO Doug Logan yesterday unveiled a new format for the 2012 Olympic Trials in Eugene: Friday-Saturday-Sunday of competition, then four days off, then a concluding three days of competition. So what do they do during the long “rest” break? How about, uh, the USATF Masters National Outdoor Championships! Masters nationals in 2010 and 2011 […]
June 27, 2009
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You’re now reading the top blog in American track and field!
I’m tickled to report that yesterday I won a prestigious award. And you share in the honor! The news came about 2:40 p.m. in e-mail from Ron Bellamy, sports editor of the The Eugene Register-Guard, who wrote me: “Ken: You are the winner of the Track and Field Writers of America’s first annual Adam Jacobs Memorial […]
June 27, 2009
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