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Joan Nesbit Mabe aiming for sub-5 mile at age 45

Brett Honeycutt of The Charlotte Observer reports: “Former East Mecklenburg High star Joan Nesbit Mabe, a 1996 Olympian and three-time All-American at North Carolina, recently broke the World and U.S. records in the women’s master’s indoor mile for 45-49-year olds at her college alma mater. . . . ‘I wasn’t planning to break the record […]

February 3, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

M35 Laynes sprints at Saskatoon after 60m record

Gail Devers has company as an impressive masters sprinter on Friday. Up at the Knights of Columbus Saskatchewan Indoor Games in Saskatoon, 36-year-old Jeff Laynes competed in the 50-meter dash. Under the headline “Quick Nic / Macrozonaris gives another dashing performance at Games,” Dustin Munroe of the StarPhoenix newspaper shares an interesting story about the […]

February 3, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Hartwig at Millrose — almost gets credit for 19-footer!

Jeff Hartwig, who turns 40 in September, reportedly topped 19-0 1/4 at the Millrose Games yesterday but steadied the bar on the way down, and thus was called for illegal “Volzing.” So the clearance was canceled. But oh my! Not bad for ol’ Jeff. Frank Litsky’s story in The New York Times further reported: “Hartwig’s […]

February 3, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Gail Devers a Force at Forty, wins Millrose 60 hurdles

Forty-year-old Gail Devers, in lane 4 between an Olympic champion and a world champion, showed she’s the still the best. Five minutes ago at the Millrose Games, she won the Visa women’s 60-meter hurdles in 7.86 seconds. They raced over 33-inch hurdles, not the 30-inch masters hurdles, so technically it’s not a masters record. (But […]

February 2, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Shore AC women’s relay missing from Millrose Games

A spot was empty in the women’s 4×4 at tonight’s 100th Millrose Games. New Jersey’s Shore Athletic Club was, as promised, not allowed to compete. Results show the winners as Athena Track Club. The Nike Central Park Track Club, which included Mary Rosado, the coordinator of the masters events at this meet, took third, but […]

February 2, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Roger Kingdom invites non-hurdlers to masters meet

Four months ago, I noted Roger Kingdom’s challenge to post-40 hurdlers: Let’s see who’s the greatest masters timber topper. Today I learned that he’s added some other masters events to his April 21 meet in Pennsylvania, where he coaches the CUP track team. Roger writes of the hurdle showdown: “Yes! It’s still on. However, I […]

February 1, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

World’s fastest 95-year-old gets moment in video sun

In June 2005, the wires were agog about a Japanese geezersprinter named Kozo Haraguchi. He ran 100 meters in 22.04 seconds — a world age-group record by 2 seconds! (And in the rain!) Now I’ve finally seen the performance. He ran the race solo (as this video shows). This happens at some meets where officials […]

February 1, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

The mysteries of the Millrose Games relay dispute

Mark Cleary, Wendi Glassman and others have been carrying on a lively debate about whether Shore AC’s entry in the Millrose Games 4×4 relay is kosher. But many questions are still hanging, most notably: Will the Shore AC masters women run Friday night? Here are some points I’d like to see resolved, and soon.

January 31, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  10 Comments

Ottey becomes oldest to break 8 for 60 meters

Merlene Ottey had a bad race at the Moscow Winter Meeting over the weekend. Her blocks slipped in a qualifying heat, and she ran “only” 7.54 seconds at age 46. (According to the Associated Press, Ottey blamed the starter, saying: “Unfortunately for me, it was a disaster today. It was the second heat and I […]

January 30, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Martin, Michelson claim indoor records at 3000

Last week’s Thursday Night at the Races at the NYC Armory saw three potential distance records — not just the one by Kathy Martin mentioned here earlier. Kathy crushed the listed W55 world and American indoor records for 3000 meters with her 10:42.9. (The old record: 11:00.10 by Italy’s Lucia Soranzo in 2005. The old […]

January 30, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed