Carmel chats up Aeron Arlin Genet, Marie-Louise Michelsohn
Pete Magill finally has some competition in the masters runner Q&A League. Carmel Papworth Barnum, the former editor of National Masters News, just posted a wonderful chat with W40 miler Aeron Arlin Genet. It’s No. 6 in a running series. The big news: Aeron, 41, says she’ll enter the masters women’s exhibition 1500 next month at the USATF open championships in Eugene. “This’ll be my first official masters race ever!” Aeron tells Carmel. “And it’s gonna be so exciting to run in front of the crowd at Hayward Field. Then in July we’re going to the Masters National Track meet in Wisconsin.” Theoretically, if Aeron dips under 4:32, she’ll automatically claim a W40 American record. A few days earlier, Carmel posted this insightful interview with record-holder Marie-Louise Michelsohn, 67, of New York. I love M-L’s feisty independence: “Val Barnwell has convinced me to do some push-ups but I only do them once in a while. I should do more. Everybody says to do core exercises. I don’t do them either.” Watch this space for more CPB interviews.
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Great to have Aeron Arlin Genet on board. Let’s hope the 1500 for W40 at Oshkosh turns out to be a race for the ages. Patricia “Trish” Porter has already signed up for the high jump at Oshkosh (Trish was on our 1988 Olympic team); let’s hope that the championships bring out all the luminaries of our sport.
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