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Payton Jordan won’t make a comeback as an M90

Joy Upshaw-Margerum is a lucky duck. Not only does she have amazing athletic talent and belong to a storied track family, but she also gets to attend some great parties. Last week, she went to the celebration of Don Bowden, the first American to run a sub-4 mile — 50 years ago. She also got […]

May 5, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Another Payton Jordan sprint record bites the dust

Our German friends Robert and Annette Koop report that Horst Schrader has taken down another legendary record by American Payton Jordan — the M70 200. Schrader clocked 26.88 into a 0.7 meters per second headwind at the north German masters meet to beat Jordan’s listed WMA world age-group record, a hand-timed (and thereby intrinsically inferior) […]

July 7, 2005   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

M45 Allen Woodard lowers own 400 WR to astounding 49.09

Last April, Allen Woodard of Houston was open about his 400-meter goal: sub-49 at age 46. A year later, he’s closer still. At Saturday’s Texas Southern University Relays, Allen clocked an incredible 49.09 against the kiddies to lower his own listed M45 outdoor American record of 49.32 at 2016 Grand Rapids nationals. (The listed WR […]

March 19, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

An old masters Christmas story via Texas, Norway and Bulgaria

Several weeks ago, a Bulgarian reader sent me a link to a 1996 article about a Norwegian marathoner named Tor Aanensen. The Bulgarian — Ventseslav “Ventsi” Ivanov — wrote me: “[Tor] trained patiently for 25 years till he became a world [10K] champion at the age of 55. … This story about patience and persistence […]

December 24, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Rex Harvey: WMA on verge of bankruptcy under President Perkins

Rex Harvey was the only candidate to complete my questionnaire in the WMA presidential election. Incumbent Stan Perkins wrote me Saturday: “My apologies, but I am in Porto Alegre and have been extremely busy with Council meetings and much communication with the local organisers regarding the championship preparations. Elections have not been on my agenda […]

October 15, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

Christian Cushing-Murray joins 1500 fun: M45 AR of 3:55.09 at Oxy

Christian Cushing-Murray is a SoCal distance legend but lacks name recognition on a national scale. No more. Friday night at the Occidental Distance Carnival in Los Angeles, CCM burned a 1500 in 3:55.09, taking down John Hinton’s listed M45 outdoor record of 3:56.39. (See results here.) Several people shared the hot news, including 5K deity […]

March 16, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  21 Comments

Rex Harvey loses WMA presidency election by single vote

Six minutes before noon today, delegates at the Lahti General Assembly gasped as election results were projected on an overhead screen. Ohio’s Rex Harvey craned his neck to see a 61 beside his name. Next to rival Stan Perkins’ name was a 62. Thus ended Rex’s 22-year stint with World Masters Athletics as he lost the race […]

August 5, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  39 Comments

Nadine O’Connor adds indoor hurdles record to collection

Multi-eventer Nadine O’Connor of Del Mar, California, smashed the W65 American record in the 60-meter hurdles Sunday at the USATF West Regional Indoor Championships in Flagstaff, Arizona. Nadine, 66, clocked 11.03 to beat the listed AR of 12.53 by Barbara Jordan at Idaho nationals in 2005. The listed indoor WR is 10.58 by Belgian Edith […]

February 18, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Juan Bustamante dies at 65; was popular SoCal sprinter

Juan sprints at UCSB’s Club West Masters in October 2007. Juan Bustamante, a mainstay of the Southern California masters circuit and a loyal reader of this blog, has died at age 65. Brenda Matthews, president of the Southern California Striders, his club, passed along the news: “It is with sadness that I announce the passing […]

December 3, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  11 Comments

Canadians mourn masters friend, runner Dave Reed, 54

Dave Reed: master of friendship, running He ran a 2-minute 800 at age 40 and was a 4:30 miler on the roads. He competed at Buffalo worlds in 1995 and the Hartshorne Masters Mile in 1997. But Dave Reed, who died last week at age 54 of complications from a staph infection, was known to […]

November 28, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments