National Senior Games sprinters buck big headwinds at Humble
Phil Raschker, Charles Allie, Mike Waller, Oscar Peyton and Amanda Scotti — all USATF masters national champs — tuned up for worlds yesterday by winning their 100-meter finals at the National Senior Olympics in Humble, Texas. But expect them to run a half-second faster (or more) in Sacramento. They all ran into major headwinds. (When will meet organizers ever learn? Just turn the race around!) See results here. Finals in the hammer and triple jump were held Friday, with Brian Hankerson winning M50 and then taking the long jump title yesterday with a 20-1 1/2. He won at Sacramento nationals last year as well. Masters Mole 45e also writes: “Silver medal went to a guy (Robert Bayless) who has apparently improved his LJ by 4 feet, and his TJ by 6 feet in the past few years. Wow!!! Superhuman??â€
Oscar Peyton, winning at Sacramento nationals, was tops in Texas as well.
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Looks like the top talent at the Sr Games is absolutely tremendous, as it was in Palo Alto at the 2009 Sr Games. Unfortunately, with just 12 days to go until the regular deadline for our Ohio nationals, it looks like the US masters program will come nowhere near matching the sprint talent of Sr Games.
Congratulations to Oscar, Phil, Charles, Amanda, and Michael. As for turning the 100 around and running it the other way, a lot of meets can’t (or won’t) do that, especially on short notice.
Pedro:What condition/rule must exist to warrant such a move?
Senor Panama: No se. I think the key would be an interest in doing what was best for the athletes. Unfortunately, that often requires everyone to cooperate, and when one key person says “No me importa” I think you are “de suerte.”
From what I have heard they should definitely have turned the 100 around. But what do I know?
As an example, take a look at heat 5 200m (60-64) for today,that was mine.The experienced runners had no problem,but new to scene did.Lesson learned fri.and today for my part.
Voy a buscar manana, Senor. Estoy muy ocupado ahora.
Pedro
Muy bien y gracias
since they add age-grade calculators, why not add wind and altitude adjustments, and subtract the reaction time? then you can see what they “really” ran.
Yup, from a logistics point of view, my guess is that all of the timing equipment and people would have to be moved to a new finish line; not an easy feat. Just for the 100m? The delays would set me on edge.
So how is the heat out there in Humble?
if it was flipped, none of the results would’ve counted :too much wind
Hi Karen and all you younger ones.
What heat? Do you mean 90 F plus.
Today, it was a DELUGE.It thru the schedule totally out of the “window” After every lighting bolt another 30 min delay!
That’s the rule and nobody?? complained. I stood up to my ankles in water, FUN.
We finally did Longjump and Shotput (women 75-79)
at the same time, not a great double when you try to change from spikes into flats and can’t get into a shoe “cause” they were too wet.
The officials were great and tried to accomodate us.
The downpour was too strong and yet we kept competing. We had a tent set up across our LJ approach. Everybody started their appoach, running from underneath, was kind of funny and looked like the start of a horse race.
It was the only solution to keep 16 jumpers “under one roof” and a bit out of the rain.
With all the delays, we had plenty of time to socialize, after all that’s a part of the game…
Will tomorrow be different, like hot and muggy?
Have to check in for the HJ at 7 am….. whatever!
Humble – be humble!
For those that value facts . . . Robert Bayless LJ’d 5.77 in Albuquerque a few months ago, and 5.97 was his best in Humble (part of a very good series of jumps.) Robert is the real deal!
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