Archive for January, 2010

Lagat’s 3:56 mile at Millrose not quite a world age-group record

In a comment, Chuck Shields asked if Bernard Lagat’s 3:56.34 mile victory in Friday’s Millrose Games was an M35 world indoor record. Bernard turned 35 in mid-December, so it’s a great question. But the answer is no. In checking the IAAF Top Lists for recent years, I found an indoor mile mark of 3:53.18 for […]

January 31, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Indoor world bests galore: Mile to Monica Joyce, 2/4 to Guido MĂĽller

Pete Magill’s blog shares details of a W50 world indoor mile record of 5:08.65 by Monica Joyce on Friday. On Saturday, M70 All-Galaxy sprinter Guido MĂĽller of Germany went deeply sub-60 for the 400 indoors, clocking 59.48, and also took down his own world indoor record in the deuce, dashing 26.88. (His previous records were […]

January 31, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

German Ritte comes farthest to jump highest at Pole Vault Summit

M55 superstar Wolfgang Ritte of Germany won the masters vault at the National Pole Vault Summit yesterday in Reno, clearing 4.3 meters (14-1 1/4).  Complete results are here. Nearly three dozen masters took part. His attempts at a world record 4.45 (14-7 1/2) fell short. (Wolfie already holds the indoor WR of 4.40/14-5 1/4 from […]

January 31, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

A modest manifesto: Let USATF associations vote online

Peter Hlavin is no bomb-throwing radical. He’s an M50 high jumper in Southern California who flirts with 6 feet. But he’s no fool either, and doesn’t suffer them. So when he attended a recent election meeting of his USATF association, he didn’t like how a reasonable idea was rebuffed. The idea? Let association members vote […]

January 30, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Gault at 49 holds his own; W50 team sets 4×4 record at Millrose

Willie Gault, 49, took third in the “Super 60” exhibition at tonight’s Millrose Games. Complete results are posted here. Willie ran 60 meters in 7.07 — just off the listed American M45 indoor record of 7.02 by Stan Whitley and the pending world record of 6.97 by the Italian Mario Longo a short time ago.  […]

January 30, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  12 Comments

BBC tells Roald Bradstock’s hopes for London Games at age 50

Our Florida friend Roald Bradstock, spearchucker deluxe, dreams of returning to the Olympics.  It’s a hope that infects many, but with little reality. In Roald’s case, there’s a smidgen of substance. He competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2008. Now the BBC reports on Roald’s ambition to throw at London 2012 — for the […]

January 29, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Masters jump tonight at National Pole Vault Summit in Reno

The annual National Pole Vault Summit will showcase masters tonight, and several Twitter feeds will cover the Reno event. Becca Gillespy Peter has one (whose Web address I need to confirm), and the event has its own Twitter feed here. So theoretically, folks who read these Tweets can get the results before they are posted. […]

January 29, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

John Ward masters meet dodges bullet, will return April 11

Santa Ana College women’s track coach Miriam Mitzell shares good news: Her school’s spring masters meet is returning April 11. Why is this news? Santa Ana College (south of Los Angeles) dropped its men’s track program, and the meet had been a fund-raiser for that team. Whew! But this informational flyer calls the meet the […]

January 29, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Got glitch? Here’s how to fix display flub for masterstrack.com

After migrating this blog to WordPress on Tuesday, we quickly became aware of a display problem (screen shot below). This is a nuisance courtesy of Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer browser is the bane of many webmasters’ existence. It can’t understand simple CSS instructions. It sucks. Fortunately, many other browsers display masterstrack.com properly. The best is […]

January 28, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Alisa Harvey soldiered on at Hartshorne despite foot injury

Alisa Harvey’s 5:09.67 at Hartshorne was amazing on its face. She’s 44, after all. But it’s even more amazing on its feet. Hers weren’t in great shape. She finished behind Aeron Arlin-Genet and a 36-year-old last Saturday at Cornell. But don’t call this the end of the legendary Alisa. She confides: “I labored with the […]

January 28, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments