Archive for March, 2012
Facebook for Finnish meet: Indoor world champs has a wall, etc.
Check out the Facebook page for 2012 indoor worlds. (It helps to be a Facebook member, but don’t feel obligated.) Facebook is where more masters are connecting with friends and learning about meets and stuff. About 2,500 athletes are entered, but the Facebook page has been “liked” more than 3,600 times. The meet is a […]
March 5, 2012
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Countryman of Bannister has good shot at sub-4 mile at age 40
Athletics Weekly reports that 1996 Olympian Anthony Whiteman provided the highlight of the McCain City Challenge in Lee Valley [London] by setting a world indoor M40 record in the 1500 meters, clocking 3:44.12 to better the listed age-group mark of 3:44.39 by Russia’s Vyacheslav Shabunin in 2010. The all-time M40 mile best is Eamonn Coghlan’s […]
March 3, 2012
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Kay Glynn fears end of track career: Faces total hip replacement
Multi-eventer Kay Glynn of Iowa—the vault record holder and most photogenic masters athlete of all time—is signaling a break from the sport at best. At worst, her track career is over at age 59. She needs a total hip replacement as a result of dysplasia. Kay writes: “In the last 10 years, I’ve missed my […]
March 3, 2012
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Don Neidig calling it quits — latest ailment is too much to handle
Reluctantly and poetically, Don Neidig is hanging up his spikes. The M65 superstar and indoor world record holder (200 in 25.47) has battled a series of ailments in recent years, but the latest have sealed his fate. In a letter to friends that he allows us to share, Don writes: “One beautiful day in October […]
March 1, 2012
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