Archive for January, 2010

Italy’s Carla Forcellini raises world indoor record in W50 vault

Carla Forcellini jumped 3.20 (10-6) in the pole vault last week to beat the listed WMA world indoor record of 3.11 (10-2 1/2) by American Donna Schultz in 2008, reports the Italian track site Web-atletica. She opened at 2.80 and made 3.10 on her third try before the record clearance on her first try at […]

January 28, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

USATF names Nolan Shaheed as Athlete of the Week for WR

Nolan Shaheed has been USATF Masters Athlete of the Year (twice, in 2006 and 2007). But this is a first for him. USA Track & Field today picked Nolan as its Athlete of the Week (for the whole sport, not just old folks). See the press release. Tom Surber, writing for the Mother Ship in […]

January 27, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Scottish sprinter claims M40 world indoor record for 200 meters

A British newspaper reports that M40 sprinter Darren Scott of Trafford AC a couple Sundays ago ran the indoor 200 in 21.81 seconds, smashing the listed WMA world record of  21.94 by Italy’s  Enrico Saraceni in 2005. (Results are here.) The report says Darren “insisted he is not on his own at the top. The […]

January 27, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Berra, LeBourne and Shaheed ran Hartshorne miles with smiles

Nick Berra, Anselm LeBourne and Nolan Shaheed were among the men starring at Saturday’s Hartshorne races in Ithaca, New York. Nick won the M40 elite race, Anselm the M50 elite race and Nolan — well, he just shattered the M60 world indoor record with a 4:57.  After the meet, I wrote all three, asking them […]

January 27, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Commenters can have gravatars! (Stands for groovy avatars)

Just kidding. Gravatar means “globally recognized avatar.” It’s an image that accompanies any comment you post on any Forum or blog that has gravatar functionality. Check out my comment below, with a mug of moi. Currently, folks see artsy colored squares beside their comments. But by using the free Gravatar service, you can pick any […]

January 27, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Notice a change? Masterstrack.com migrates to new platform

At 9:37 a.m. today, this site moved from Movable Type to WordPress, a content management system and blog platform.  Many of the changes are cosmetic, but my blog just became turbocharged. You’ll see. It’s the equivalent of trading in a VW for a Ferrari. A few bugs are being worked out, but I’m thrilled by […]

January 26, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  11 Comments

The other winners at Hartshorne: Cannon and de St. Croix

Nolan Shaheed set a world record at the Hartshorne miles Saturday, but he wasn’t the top miler there. Not according to the WMA Age-Graded Tables. One of the side contests at Cornell was for best age-graded percentage, and Nolan’s 4:57 at age 60 wasn’t No. 1.  See this age-graded results sheet, prepared by Bill Quinlisk. […]

January 25, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Don Neidig posts second M65 world indoor record for January

Running at the same venue as his 60-meter WR, M65 Don Neidig yesterday beat the listed world indoor record for the 200-meter dash at the Cherry and Silver Invitational in Albuquerque. Official results again fail to note his mark. But Don posted a time of 25.54, which edged the listed WR of 25.59 by Germany’s […]

January 24, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Nolan tells Hartshorne reporter: ‘I was thinking of Diane’

Aaron Munzer’s Ithaca Journal report on the Hartshorne masters miles is posted here. I was touched by this passage:  “(Nolan Shaheed) mentioned Diane Sherrer, a longtime advocate of masters running and columnist for this newspaper, who died last year, as the inspiration for his win.“Diane didn’t make it here physically, you know, and as I […]

January 24, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

M60 Nolan Shaheed is stupendous at Hartshorne: sub-5 WR

Nolan Shaheed Pasadena’s Nolan Shaheed, injured before Lahti, couldn’t compete at worlds last summer. But he made up for that today. Flying cross country to run at the Hartshorne Memorial Miles at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, he took eighth in the M50-59 race — but shattered the listed indoor world record for M60 […]

January 23, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  16 Comments