Gentlemen (and ladies), start your Penn Relays entries
Phil Felton, majordomo of masters events at the Penn Relays, has begun circulating entry information for this year’s event, which is April 23-24 at Franklin Field in Philly. As usual, you can expect 50,000 people in the stands going ape over age-groupers (as we certainly deserve). Click here for the entry form. Phil says deadline for entries is April 2. A slew of 4×100, 4×400 and 100-meter elite races are contested. YouTube has archived dozens of masters videos from Penn. Here’s one of my faves: Bill Collins beating Oscar Peyton to set the listed M55 world record of 11.44 in 2008. (Bill has several faster legal times.)
I also discovered an interesting relays event a week earlier.
The Mt. San Antonio College Relays (aka Mt. SAC) in Walnut, California (east of Los Angeles) will contest a masters 4×800 relay at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 16, according to this posted schedule. This is new. I’ve been to Mt. SAC for many years and haven’t seen a masters relay of any kind. Just 100s, 200s, 800s and recently an all-star 110 masters hurdle race.
USATF Masters invitational coordinator Mark Cleary is in charge of the men’s and women’s 800 at Mt. SAC. But I don’t know who is running the 4×8 relay gig. I’ll check around.
Might be a chance for West Coasters to put together some great teams.
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Looks like Bill jumped??
love penn relaysbeen there 4 the last 4 years,in 4×100 and 4×400, only problem is they put M50 W50 and up in the same heat of the 4×400 30 team cali start 4 the 4×400 its crazy they dont do that 4 the over 40 heats,but if you like running in front of thousands of peps yelling, to a rour penn relays is one of the best meets you can ever run .
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