Archive for January, 2010

Indiana’s Janet Sweet, long-sprint specialist, dies at age 80

Janet Sweet Janet Sweet, one of the top W75 long sprinters in recent years, died a month ago of a brain hemorrhage, reports National Masters News (via email alert) and recent posted obituaries in Indiana. She won medals in the 200 or 400 at Landover indoor nationals and Oshkosh outdoor nationals and also competed last […]

January 19, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Masters dashers featured in Alyssa Tower video interview

More than a dozen masters sprinters and runners took part in the Dempsey Indoor Preview meet Saturday at the University of Washington in Seattle, and masters distance ace Alyssa Tower gathered nine for a little chat after their 60-meter dash. She posted the resulting video on YouTube and wrote about the event on Pete Magill’s […]

January 19, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

World record 60-meter dash reported for Don Neidig in N.M.

Don Neidig, an M65 long-dash specialist with several American records, has reported running 60 meters indoors in 7.98 seconds — which would edge the listed WR of 7.99 by Finland’s Jorma Manninen in 2007. (The listed American record is 8.04 by world champ Stephen Robbins in 2009.) Don’s time came at a USATF-officiated all-comers meet. […]

January 19, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  10 Comments

4×200 relay discussed for USATF masters indoor nationals

People love relays, so it’s no wonder that more are in the pipeline. And if you don’t run middle distance (4×800) and can’t stand gratuitous pain (4×400), how about a 4×200? This also is known as short-track speed skating, since exchanges on an indoor track at high speed are good for some great pileups. According […]

January 18, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

Jody Hawkins shaves her W40 American indoor record for 3K

Jody Hawkins Competing against the youngins at the Texas A&M Invitational, W40 Jody Hawkins yesterday lowered her own American indoor record for 3,000 meters, clocking 9:51.60 to break the 9:56.24 she ran in 2007. Jody is 43, so her age-graded equivalent to an open time is 9:09.2.   See results here. As it turns out, […]

January 17, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Another M75 shot record reported for Dr. Oglesby in Florida

Gary Dixon of Sarasota reports: “At the Winter Sun Meet in Clermont, Florida, Dr. James Oglesby increased his American (M75) record in the shot. I don’t have the complete results (throwscoachflorida.com will soon) but I believe he went 13.17 meters (43-2 1/2). (Roald) Bradstock and (Mike) Brown were also chucking the jav, but they had […]

January 17, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  10 Comments

Roger Pierce burns up track at Dartmouth in new age group

Roger Pierce, a Masters Hall of Famer, ran the 60-meter dash last weekend in 8.58 up in Hanover, New Hampshire. But that’s not the news. It’s the fact he turned 65 last October and is looking good after some health issues. In fact, he ranks first this young indoor season in the 200 and 400 […]

January 16, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

New system for comments: I’ll be decider of what’s posted

My colleague Tom Mallory at The San Diego Union-Tribune has a name for people who post rude/crude comments anonymously: trolls. And he has a word for the removal of said commenters: detrollification. And starting tonight, I’m instituting a system for regulating comments on this blog. Despite my interest in what the Supreme Court calls “free […]

January 15, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  17 Comments

Entries being posted for Kamloops 2010 world masters meet

In the last day or two, the official Kamloops site has begun posting entries by event. See the current list here. The biggest field so far at the fourth World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships is the M55 60-meter dash — and the American entries (including Bill Collins) haven’t even been added yet. As expected, W90 […]

January 15, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

USATF masters site debuts at long last: usatfmasters.org

With no USATF fanfare and barely a mention on its own site, Dave Clingan’s labor of unpaid love has gone live: usatfmasters.org. With M45 miler Tony Young in the logo, the site was supposed to have been unveiled months ago. But it got mired in USATF’s bureaucratic swamp. Even now, I’m surprised that it wasn’t […]

January 15, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments