M60 thrower Tom Fahey, a.k.a. discusdoc, our perennial national champion, teaches as well as he tosses. In a marvelous 609-word synopsis of accumulated wisdom, Tom answered this question on our Forum from M80 multi-eventer Bill Daprano in Georgia: âWhat would be the best weight training routine for track and field?â Tom began his reply by saying: âWe are track athletes who lift weights â not weight lifters who throw, run or jump.â
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December 27, 2008
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Doug Logan has guts. And as the CEO of USA Track & Field, he can do his thing without consulting you and me. But as I learned when I interviewed him in September, he seems open to us geezers. And recently he opened his blog to comments. Courageous. Of course, you have to play nice-nice, or your comment will be deep-sixed. But when I posted an innocuous item about adding a search engine to usatf.org, it appeared on Dougâs blog instantly! So now hereâs your chance to express yourself to the top dog. And since all bloggers are vain egotists who monitor their sites frequently, itâs very likely Doug will read your comments! Have fun!
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December 26, 2008
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Mike Soule is our Santa today. A champion M55 pole vaulter living in Minnesota, Mike has posted this series of videos on how to weight-train in the off-season for geezer vaulting. In fact, he calls himself vaultingeezer on his MySpace page. Mike stars in the videos, which depict exercises especially good for comebacking vaulters. This is a wonderful way of sharing oneâs wisdom and experience.
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December 25, 2008
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Dave Ortman, a.k.a. Perspiring Minds, who can run fast without warming up, sent me this link to a stretching article in his local Seattle paper. Dave wrote: âOld habits die hard.â But old tracksters love to experiment. So there. The article starts: âSometimes you simply have to rethink a routine, and itâs fair to say Tyler Oakley has a leg up on that. He is a personal trainer and owner of Seattle-based Flow Life Fitness. Oakley says his approach to stretching is that âflexibility is not necessarily a healthy characteristic.â Instead, âwhat you are looking for is mobility. You want the muscle tissue to relax.â â
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December 24, 2008
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Say what you want about the âcash awards programâ Mike Daniels is promoting, as a masters sprinter, Mike has chutzpah. In a blog he started today, he announces: âI hope to finish the year in 2009 as #1 in the 55 meter sprint. As it is my last year in the age 55-59 for Indoors. I had one good
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meet the whole year. There is only one meet close to me that has the 60m dash and last year was a bad year. So I am looking for at least a 7.8 if I am healthy. Havenât started training yet.â Well then. Best of luck!
December 23, 2008
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On Dec. 28, the Potomac Valley Track Club will hold an all-comers meet at the site of the USATF masters indoor nationals in March 2009 in Landover, Maryland. Check out this letter from Joe Burno, president of the Maryland Masters Track Club, which describes the facilties and includes photo links of the new Mondo track. The site also lists current entrants for masters nationals, including middle-distance star Anselm LeBourne and all-world thrower Neni Lewis. The official online home for masters indoor nationals is on the USATF website here.
December 22, 2008
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The masters menâs and womenâs races at Spokane cross country club nationals were photographed Dec. 13, and now a pair of online galleries are chilling reminders of the flip side of 2006 Charlotte track nationals. In other words, the ladies and gents ran in supercold and snowy weather this month. What blows me away are the handful of runners not wearing leg tights, gloves and such. Check out the menâs gallery here. A few ran in their skivvies for 10K. Check out the womenâs gallery here. The ladies ran 6K, or 3.73 miles. Videos also are posted. Thankfully, the awards ceremonies were held indoors. Masters are included in that gallery as well.
December 21, 2008
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World Masters Athletics is unhappy about rumors of no vacancies at Lahti worlds in 2009. South Africaâs Monty Hacker, acting prez of WMA, writes: âAt a meeting held in Lahti with Virpi Hurri and Tiina Kovisto of the Lahti Organising Committee on 8th December it emerged that false rumours are circulating to the effect that there is no accommodation currently available in Lahti for the forthcoming WMA Stadia Championships during July and August 2009. Furthermore a German Masters magazine, published and distributed this month, perpetuates this false rumour. Please therefore take note that THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THESE RUMOURS and that I have been satisfied, on facts placed before me by Virpi and Tiina, that there is presently an abundance of accommodation available in Lahti for athletes and their accompanying companions, before, during and after the event.â
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December 20, 2008
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According to World Masters Athletics, the Age-Graded Tables were devised to score multi-events like the decathlon, heptathlon, pentathlon and various weight events. Essentially, you convert your old-fogie mark into a âcorresponding Openâ (age 20-30) mark and plug the new mark into the IAAF tables for a point score. Now change is in the wind. Stefan Waltermann reports: âThe German Bernd Rehpennig and (American) Rex Harvey and other experts obviously come up with something that is much better than the current point system for us multi athletes.â A German site reports it here.
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December 20, 2008
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Mike McNees: our new go-to guy?
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USATF CEO Doug Logan announced yesterday that Michael A. McNees will be the chief operating officer of the organization. Heâll âsupervise USATFâs administration, operations and marketing departments; coordinate long-range planning; act as the principal staff coordinator and advocate to the masters community; and be the chief staff liaison to the new Board of Directors, assisting in the establishment of procedures and policies and coordinating Board training.â He starts March 1. Also notable: âEarlier this year, McNees, 53, began training again for masters competition in the 200 and 400 meters.â Cool! We get to nag Mike about masters issues while getting into our blocks. But donât mention the S-word: Sarasota.
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December 19, 2008
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