Archive for June, 2009
Kids coached by masters excel at California State HS champs
Richard Holmes, the M40 hurdler profiled here last month, saw his prep prodigy Kori Carter win two state titles yesterday at the California State High School Championships in Clovis, in central part of the state. Kori, still only a junior, won the 100 hurdles in 13.59 and the 300 hurdles in 41.26. Nice coaching, Richard! […]
June 7, 2009
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American records in M95 400 and M80 5K racewalk in SoCal
Competing at today’s Pasadena Senior Games — also called the California Senior Olympics — Bill Moremen, 81, mowed down the American record in the 5,000-meter racewalk. Bill’s time of 33:50.70 bettered the listed AR of 34:08.44 by Jack Starr at last year’s Spokane nationals (when Bill took second to Jack). Bill is Lahti-bound. (And yesterday […]
June 6, 2009
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Riccione champion Ralph Fruguglietti on the comeback trail
June 5, 2009
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‘Second Wind’ is a first-rate entry in masters track library
Lee Bergquist stays in shape himself at 55. Lee Bergquist, a runner and reporter, was given two leaves of absence at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to write a book about masters sports. It’s been years in the making, and last month it was published by Human Kinetics. I’m awaiting my copy to review. But from what I’ve […]
June 4, 2009
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Landover world records: WMA site plays pick and choose
Congratulations to Leland McPhie, Robert Hewitt, Robert Howard, Bill Murray, Emil Pawlik, Sumi Onodera-Leonard, Nadine O’Connor and Athena 4Ă—4 relayists Jane Brooker, Maryline Roux, Joan Hunter and Charmaine Roberts! Your world indoor records from Landover nationals are now posted on the WMA records pages! No “pending”! They’re all good. Tough titties to Val Barnwell. Your […]
June 3, 2009
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Video shows Nadine O’Connor going ‘WR’ 10-6 in practice
Of course, practice doesn’t count. But it’s amazing to watch someone 67 years old vault this high. Pete Magill — crossing the line again because he’s supposed to be blogging about distance runners, not jumpers — linked to a YouTube video shot Monday by Bud Held at his and Nadine O’Connor’s undisclosed backyard location. Pete wrote: […]
June 3, 2009
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USATF’s head honcho misspeaks on masters drug-testing
Doug Logan In his latest blog entry, USATF CEO Doug Logan writes: “Youth and masters athletes also are subject to drug testing.” Wrong. USATF does not ask masters tracksters for a urine sample (unless they compete on the elite level, such as Jeff Hartwig or Allen Johnson). No drug-testing has ever been done at a […]
June 2, 2009
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Iowa’s Kay Glynn pictured in latest issue of AARP magazine
W55 multi-eventer Kay Glynn, the grandmother of three with six-pack abs, is shown vaulting on page 12 of the July/August issue of AARP, the retirees magazine. Also shown in a smaller photo is Charles Modlin, 85, who the text says ran three sprint records at the 2005 National Senior Games. (Bill Daprano is also in […]
June 2, 2009
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Masters double and triple up at high altitude in Lake Tahoe
Competing in the same high-altitude region that hosted the 1968 Olympic Trials, masters ran wild (and had great jumps and throws) Saturday at the King of the Hill Lake Tahoe Master Track & Field Meet. (See complete results here.) Half-mile specialist Larry Barnum, 65, had a nice 1-2-4 triple, clocking 13.61, 27.88 and 59.36. Liz […]
June 2, 2009
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Hundreds of photos posted from Striders Meet of Champions
Paul Wang, shooting for Dave Peeters Photography, has more than 330 images online here from the May 23 Striders Meet of Champions at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. Very nice job. Great variety of running, jumping and throwing events, including a few series of Nadine O’Connor vaults on her first WR day in […]
June 1, 2009
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