Archive for November, 2014
Ballot for Masters LDRs of Year posted on USATF page by mistake?
Uh oh. On the Documents Library page of USATF’s Anaheim convention, we see a link to the Masters LDR Athletes of the Year Ballot. The text reads: “You are receiving this ballot because you have been designated as a representative to the USATF Masters Long Distance Running Committee by your Association, Member Organization, Administrative Committee, […]
November 11, 2014
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Truthiness: NMN gets the Colbert Bump for its anti-aging properties!
NMN, but maybe not the monthly magazine we call National Masters News, was featured on the “Colbert Report” recently. Stephen Colbert had a segment on the anti-aging chemical NMN. The news is old: “First the compound that reversed aging in this study is nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), which gets converted into NAD in the body. It […]
November 10, 2014
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Good, bad news: Daprano’s 6:58 OK, Lewis-Smallwood’s discus not
Another stain on the masters name. The USATF Records Committee has posted its pending American records to the Documents Library of the Anaheim convention site, and Gia Lewis-Smallwood’s open AR in the discus isn’t up for a W35 AR. Would-be masters records are here. (I count 81 individual marks and two dozen relays.) Gia’s PR […]
November 9, 2014
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Wet start as WMA South American regional meet nears end
The South Americans are holding an eight-day WMA regional championships in Medellin, Colombia. The meet ends Sunday, but results have been posted here. WMA reports that more than 1,800 are entered. But they’re dealing with bad weather, a la Porto Alegre worlds in 2013. Sigh. WMA Prez Stan Perkins reports: “A very severe storm that […]
November 8, 2014
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2017 National Senior Games awarded to Birmingham, Alabama
The NSGA website says nothing, but The Associated Press (and Alabama media) are reporting that Birmingham will host the 2017 National Senior Games. The 2015 Games are in the Minneapolis area. So for the first time since 2007, when Louisville played host, the daddy of all Senior Olympics will be in the Deep South. “Competitions […]
November 7, 2014
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Surf’s up! Can masters movement piggyback ‘beach track’ trend?
Heard of this? The French news agency AFP reports: “The inaugural world beach games could go ahead in 2017 featuring sports like beach track and field and beach American football, a senior Olympic official said on Wednesday. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah said the move followed the success of the Asian Beach Games, whose fourth edition […]
November 6, 2014
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A week shy of 45, mom of 6 sets world record in outdoor mile
If you want to set a world record, don’t follow Chris Kimbrough’s example. “She … admits that she might benefit from going into her next record attempt better rested,” said a great Runner’s World report. “The morning of her record, Kimbrough ran 11 miles. Including her warm-up, she was on her 13th mile of the […]
November 5, 2014
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W65 Mary Lou Platis preparing for her 10th National Senior Games
If you can’t spin, you slide. If you can’t hurdle, you throw. Those are the lessons conveyed in a profile of W65 weight woman Mary Lou Platis of Wisconsin. “There are some events I just had to drop off over time,” she told her local paper. “When I was in my 50s, I was one […]
November 4, 2014
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USATF’s ‘Forever Fast’ promotional video yanked from YouTube
Anyone know who uploaded the original “Forever Fast” video to YouTube? For some reason, that person’s account broke some rules, and YouTube closed the account. “Forever Fast” — a slickly produced 13-minute video for promoting masters track — was supposed to help grow the sport. So when it was unveiled in 2011, I made a […]
November 3, 2014
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4-meet Winter All-Comers Series told for San Diego (aka Paradise)
Calling it a “winter” series is a stretch, since San Diego enjoys warm weather all year long. But to distinguish the summer and winter offerings, that’s how Paul Greer and friends name the four meets starting in late November and ending in January. Paul writes: “The 2015 San Diego Track Club Winter Track Classic Series […]
November 2, 2014
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