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Roald Bradstock is living the Olympic Trials dream (again)

British native Roald Bradstock threw the jav in two Olympic Games (1984 and 1988) and caught a bug: the Olympic Trials bug. He became a U.S. citizen and threw in our Trials in 2000, 2004 and 2008. This year, at age 50, he’s been invited to compete in the British Olympic Trials. It will be [...]

May 4, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Belated congrats to Nadine O’Connor for latest vault WRs at 70

Buried in the results of last Saturday’s Southern California Striders Meet of Champions was a vault mark for newbie W70 Nadine O’Connor. About six weeks after aging up, she demolished the listed WR in the vault of 2.36 meters (7-8 3/4) by Oregon’s Becky Sisley in 2009. Nadine went 2.75 (9-0 1/4) for an age-graded [...]

May 4, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  11 Comments

No news is good news: Drug tests negative at nationals, worlds

USATF Masters Track National Chairman Gary Snyder reports that nobody tested positive for PEDs (illegal ingestibles) at the March indoor nationals in Bloomington. He didn’t say how many tests were done, but that’s a closely held secret anyway. World Masters Athletics announced the same all-clear on Finland worlds: “The chairman of the Anti-Doping and Medical [...]

May 1, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  9 Comments

Kevin Castille adds M40 American record in the 5000 to 10K

Buried in the results of the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational at Stanford over the weekend was the M40 American record for 5000 meters by Kevin Castille. So three weeks after his AR in the 10K on the same track, Kevin nearly cracked the elite 14-minute barrier. His time of 14:00.09 in an elite race beats [...]

May 1, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

This guy is living my honest-to-goodness real-life track fantasy

About 10 years ago, whenever I saw Steve Scott at Cal State San Marcos, where he coaches, I would say, “Hey, Coach! I still have two years eligibility left!” That was a reference to my having run track for two years at Kansas and then kicked off the team. (Actually, my NCAA eligibility expired somehow.) [...]

April 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

Nolan Shaheed nails 3000 record at Striders Meet of Champions

Nolan Shaheed set his latest American record yesterday morning at the Striders Meet of Champions at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. He clocked 9:49.76 for 3000 meters to beat the listed M60 AR of 10:11.24 by Douglas Winn in 2010. Amazing as that is, Nolan three weeks ago ran 3K even faster — but didn’t [...]

April 29, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Mike Blackmore blazes to M50 American record in the 5000

Newbie M50 Mike Blackmore set an M50 American record in the 5K Friday at the Pacific University Twilight Meet in Forest Grove, Oregon. His time of 15:16.77 crushes the listed M50 AR of 15:41.67 by Mike Heffernan in 1991. (See results here.) The listed WR is 14:53.2 by Britain’s David Martin Rees in 2003. But [...]

April 28, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  14 Comments

Dozens get Philly love in Penn Relays masters relays, races

At least one American masters record was set today at the Penn Relays: The Houston Elite TC 4×1 team of Ron Johnson, Charles Allie, Richard Riddle and Bill Collins clocked 48.44 to beat the USATF club record of 50.9 by the legendary Corona Del Mar TC quartet of Bill Morales, Payton Jordan, Clarence Killion and [...]

April 27, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  13 Comments

Vaulter Jerry Cahill gets second wind: double lung transplant

A week ago Wednesday, M55 vaulter Jerry Cahill “received a call he has been waiting for a number of years,” reports the Armory track site. “[His] double lung transplant was approved and performed. He received his new lungs that day, thanks to a very generous donor. There are plenty of challenges ahead for Jerry, including [...]

April 26, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

Sonja Friend-Uhl makes Olympic Trials B standard at age 41

W40 runner Sonja Friend-Uhl was hoping for a speedy 4:22 or 4:23 last Friday night when she came to the starting line of the 1500 at the Vanderbilt Invitational in Nashville. Boy, was she way off. She writes: “I wanted to share the news with you that I ran my 4th fastest 1500m EVER Friday [...]

April 24, 2012   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments