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Earl Fee advice on injury rehab: Avoid disco dancing with foxy lady

Superlegend Earl Fee posted a note to Facebook recently that tells you all you need to know about injury rehab — and Earl’s sense of humor. “Recently I … had a calf injury ongoing for 10 weeks in spite of 20 extensive 45 minute physiotherapy sessions involving cross friction massage, ultra sound and laser treatment,” […]

February 6, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Update: Hartwig not making comeback as reported by IAAF Spikes

See comment below, rendering this report moot: Jeff Hartwig turns 50 in September, but he looks to be hungry for an M45 record in the pole vault. He retired from serious competition in late 2008. Now the M40 WR man at 5.70 (18-8 1/4) is jumping back in the game, says an IAAF Spikes story. […]

February 5, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Hugh Gallagher dies at 92; Irish thrower called ‘true sporting legend’

Two years ago, Hugh Gallagher said that as a young man, he was hit across the back by an iron girder. “It almost killed me,” he told an Irish paper. “I was taken to St. George’s Hospital in London where I was told that I would never walk again. They said my back was broke […]

February 4, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Fiona Matheson claims indoor W55 WR in 1500 at Scottish meet

W55 Fiona Matheson set a 1500 world indoor record of 4:56.51 at the Scottish Open Championships on Jan. 28, reports Athletics Weekly. “She finished fifth in a race won by Ireland’s Emma Mitchell in 4:16.20.” (See results here.) The listed WR is 4:58.13 by Spain’s Aurora Perez in 2013 (The listed American record is 4:58.7 […]

February 3, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Open letter to WMA Prez Stan Perkins: Sack Sandy as records czar

Dear Stan: Sandy Pashkin has failed in her role as WMA Records Committee chair. You should take a page from USATF’s Gary Snyder’s playbook and remove her for incompetence and aggravation — to media and athletes. The latest example came Thursday morning, when Soar Running reported an M45 indoor mile world record by Anthony Whiteman […]

February 2, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  12 Comments

M40 Kim Collins cuts 60 WR; W50 Lisa Mikkelsen cracks 400 AR

No shock here. In his first indoor season as an M40, Kim Collins lowered the world record at 60 meters. Just for fun, he did it twice Wednesday — with a heat of 6.58 and final of 6.56 at a German meet to destroy the listed WR of 6.78 by Holland’s Troy Douglas in 2003. […]

February 1, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  12 Comments

2 American records fall at USATF indoor masters hep nationals

Two years after setting an M40 American record in the indoor heptathlon, Jeferson Souza of Miami upped it over the weekend with a score of 5055 — 45 above his listed AR. He can credit competition from Mike Kuoppamaki, a San Diego coach and chiropractor with solid all-time PRs, including 7451 in the decathlon. Mike […]

January 31, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Sonja Friend-Uhl thought 9:50 possible for 3000 before W45 AR

In the early summer of 1984, 12-year-old Sonja Friend ran a 400 meters in the ARCO Jesse Owens Games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Months later, she recalled watching Joanie Benoit on TV, winning the 1984 Olympic marathon at the same site. On Saturday, Sonja Friend-Uhl broke Joan’s American record for 3000 meters in the […]

January 30, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Indoor WRs reported for M80 Bob Lida and M45 Anthony Whiteman

According to results and a tweet, Bob Lida of Kansas has his first M80 world record — in the 200 — and Britain’s Anthony Whiteman has taken down the M45 WR in the 800 by more than a second. Despite a URL with 2016 in it, Bob is denoted as 80 in these results from […]

January 29, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

Sonja Friend-Uhl’s 3000 AR, Peter Brady’s mile top Boston marks

Boston was veddy veddy good to masters over the weekend. On Friday, Sonja Friend-Uhl ran 3000 meters at Boston University in 9:53.04 to shatter the listed W45 American record of 10:02.55 (at 2003 Boston nationals) by Olympic champ Joan (Benoit) Samuelson. (See results here.) On Saturday, a masters mile kicked off the New Balance Grand […]

January 28, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments