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Bob Lida better than Mo Greene? Lowers own M75 WR in 60
Competing at Wichita State University, world champ Bob Lida clocked 8.44 seconds for 60 meters Saturday, blasting his own M75 world indoor record of 8.56 set at Jyväskylä worlds in 2012. Results of the Bill Butterworth Invitational are here. Bob, the 2012 IAAF Best Masters Athlete, writes from Kansas: “It [was] a well attended meet. Had […]
January 6, 2014
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Bob Lida to Usain Bolt: Keep it up, and you can run masters, too!
Bob Lida is as quick-witted as he is fast. Three weeks ago, he was accepting his award as IAAF Best Male Masters Athlete of 2012 at the 100th anniversary Gala of the IAAF. Let Bob take it from here: “So there I was in Barcelona, at the IAAF Best Athlete of the Year Awards — […]
December 15, 2012
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M75 Bob Lida after IAAF Best Master season: Still aims for sub-27
After hearing that my fellow Jayhawk Bob Lida had been named IAAF Best Master, I shot him some questions, and one response stands out. He’s not satisfied with his speed, especially in the 200. He wrote me: “I think l left something in the tank last year. I have been feeling good and my training […]
October 1, 2012
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Bob Lida, Lyn Ventris named IAAF Best Masters of Year 2012
American M75 sprinter Bob Lida will soon be able to say “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore” when he and W55 Aussie star Lyn Ventris are feted at the IAAF Gala in Barcelona as IAAF Best Masters of the Year. WMA today announced the choice of Bob and Lyn as the year’s best masters […]
September 28, 2012
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Bob Lida crashes 13.5 barrier for M75 WR in 100 at Lisle nationals
Jared Slinde reports for USATF from Lise masters nationals: “Robert Lida became the first man over the age of 75 to ever run under 13.50 seconds in the 100-meters in winning the event in 13.49 as fans on the campus of Benedictine University witnessed another world record on day three of the USA Masters Outdoor […]
August 5, 2012
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Bob Lida destroys M75 world indoor records in the 60 and 200
M75 sprint superstar Bob Lida — my fellow Jayhawk— added to his legend Jan. 12 at Wichita State University, crushing world indoor records in the 60 and 200. He ran 8.49 and 27.03 at the Herm Wilson Invitational, where they have a 200-meter nonbanked Mondo track. (See results here.) He erased German Wolfgang Reuter’s listed […]
January 14, 2012
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Willie Gault down, Darren Scott and Bob Lida up in 200 finals
Willie Gault’s first taste of world masters was sweet: gold in the 100-meter dash. His latest was sour: a cramp while leading the 200-meter final Tuesday. On an otherwise perfect night (crosswind with temps in low 70s), Willie’s right lower hamstring cramped about 20 meters from the finish. With Britain’s Pat Logan on his right […]
July 13, 2011
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Missing from Kamloops: Earl Fee, Bob Lida and Doug Smith
The 60-meter prelims are among many events kicking off Kamloops worlds this morning, but several all-star sprinters won’t be awaiting the gun. Canada’s Earl Fee, always a threat at M80 records, wrote me last week: “Not going to Kamloops as planned as I am recovering from a calf tear, but will compete in Boston.” And […]
March 1, 2010
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Bob Lida’s take on Guido’s WR: Expect German to go faster
In the M70 age group, a sub-30 for the deuce is considered world-class. So when Guido MĂĽller became the first seventysomething to break 60 seconds for one lap, it was something special. I went nuts. Of course, ya gotta realize I haven’t cracked 60 in, like, forever. But one of Guido’s M70 peers — Bob Lida […]
June 12, 2009
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Bob Lida on record rampage at National Sr. Olympics
Bob Lida of Wichita apparently plans to rewrite the M70 record book at Louisville. Yesterday in the 200 prelims of the National Senior Olympics, he led all qualifiers with a 27.26 into a 1.0 mps wind. The world age-group record is 26.71. The American record? Payton Jordan’s 26.8 hallowed hand-time from 1987. In the 400 […]
June 29, 2007
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