Atlanta TC, Lifeforce TC claim relay records in NW, SE meets
In the past week, an Atlanta Track Club foursome in Atlanta and a Lifeforce TC team in Eugene each set relay records — while wearing similar red tops! On Tuesday, at the ATC Classic, the host club’s W50 women lowered their own American club record, clocking 56.69 in the 4×100. The listed record was 58.73 from 2008. “Our winning team was Debbie Carter, Linda Lowery, Loretta Woodward and LaVonda DeWitt,” writes Lesley Chaplin-Swann. The Lifeforce team broke the USATF Northwest Region Masters and Hayward Masters Classic 4×1 records on Sunday. “We ran 47.49,” writes Fidel Bañuelos. “Per the Hayward Classic website, the (M40) meet record was 47.9h and the NW Region record was 48.43 set in 2006. Steve Sanders was also part of that team. Team members in order of legs are: Steve Sanders, Jay Martin, Fidel Banuelos and Byrke Beller.” Video of the relay (and a 200) also is posted here. Since the ladies are better looking, their photo goes first:
Atlanta TC relayists (from left) are LaVonda, Loretta, Linda and Debbie.
There’s a story behind the name of the Lifeforce Track Club as well.
“Why the name Lifeforce TC? Because of our relay coach Jay,” writes Fidel, who points us to Jay’s website.
Lifeforce's record-setting M40 relay (from left): Jay, Byrke, Fidel and Steve.
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Ken, I believe the order from left to right is as follows:
LaVonda DeWitt
Linda Lowery
Loretta Woodward
Debbie Carter
But what do I know, I’m only an announcer.
If we’re mentioning meet records, I want to give kudos to my W50 teammate Karen Maxwell. Karen broke 2 Hayward Classic meet records. She ran a 14.48 in the 80m hurdles to break the old record of 14.70, and she decimated the previous 300m hurdle record of 1:12.66 by over 18 seconds by running 54.21. Watch out for her at the national meet!
I dunno, but the guys are pretty cute, too. 😉
The Hayward meet was a smashing success this year with about 250 competitors. The weather was great and there were many outstanding performances.
We are working on updating the Hayward Classic meet record list, and we tried to announce as many of the meet records as possible during the event. I think the count is 28 Hayward Classic records. Coincidently this was also the 28th Hayward Classic. With a meet that has been around that long, and the fields we have had over the years, setting a meet record is a big deal!
The meet was also the USATF Northwest Regional Masters Championships. Many of those meet records fell as well.
Of course there were 3 American records, one of which was also a world record.
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