Watch for women to shine at Saturday’s Portland Track Festival
Joanna Harper
Here are the main masters fields:
Event 99 … (1 Mile Run Masters Masters Men)
Name Team Seed Time
2 Swanson, Jonathan Unattached 4:17.48
3 Paulk, Kevin Bowerman AC 4:26.00
4 Jones, Bret Unattached 4:32.00
5 Chesimet, Kemboi Farasi Running Club 4:32.28
6 Blackmore, Mark Bowerman Athletic Club 4:32.56
7 Frantz, Michael Unattached 4:36.00
8 Cannon, David Unattached 4:38.00
9 Burns, Richard Team Runners High 4:39.00
10 Wakefield, Tim Boise River Running Club 4:40.00
11 Kreuzpeintner, Thomas Oregon Track Club 4:41.05
12 Shaheed, Nolan SoCal 4:42.00
13 Sullivan, Sid Asics Aggies 4:42.18
14 Brennand, Bob Club NW 4:43.00Masters Women’s 3000 meters
Entrant Hometown Age Seed Time
Trina Painter Flagstaff, Arizona 43 09:56
Tania Fischer Santa Monica, California 44 10:00
Christine Olen Boise, Idaho 42 10:03
Lisa Valle Albuquerque,
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What outstanding fields. Best of luck to everyone, cant’ wait to hear the details. Will any of the races be videotaped—maybe flotrack?
Yes indeed we old milers are greatful for Clingan’s Mile and the support from PDX Track Classic’s Craig Rice. But someone entered my 1500 time for the Mile. I’m greatful to just be in this esteemed field of 4 lappers!
KP
Good luck, KP. I decided to skip this year – too much traveling this month.
Jim Sorensen got left off the list but I’m pretty sure he’s coming.
Congratulations to Joanna Harper and the Masters ladies competing in the 3,000m at the Portland Track Festival. Should be a great one to watch and exciting for them to compete in. Though it shows it’s a runners world when it comes to T&F. I proposed, and asked many a time to have masters throwers, just one age group, men and women, in one throwing event, be able to compete at a few of the larger Open venues, only to have it fall upon deaf ears. From what I’ve heard from spectators, Open athletes and the Masters athletes who competed in the Masters shot put exibition at the 2010 USATF National Indoor Championships in Alburquerque, it was a huge success with the crowd even though some of us Masters and Ken had to pry open the entrants list just a bit with Blog comments, to get other great Masters throwers to compete other than just from Alburquerque and New Mexico, like the winner of the exibition, Paul Ossman (50-54),who competed from the state of Georgia. Even so, no other plans to my knowledge have been made for throwing events at the bigger open venues to this date. I do have one last question…Are women really feeling left out or not heard as viable athletes in the track and field community today? Carmel Papworth-Barnum states on her web-site,”I began this website to share my knowledge and passion for running, to promote women’s running, our relationships, our achievements and hopefully inspire other women to run.” I’m totally with her on sharing knowledge and passion for running… but T&F and running in general, needs to be promoted in our country, both Women’s and Men’s. Are there some out there that don’t know that women compete in running events these days? Are female relationships really shared better on a women’s web-site? I read about womens achievements all the time in track and field, Masters, Open and youth athletes. Are women not getting good and positive publicity in the media, Track and Field News or Masterstrack.com and if so, is it written in a poor manner or light towards women?… I don’t know, that’s why I ask. I tend to find it funny when men have clubs or organizations with “Men” in the title to let others know what they’re about. They always seem juvenile and inconsequential to me. When women started doing the same thing, it was advertised as enlightening and enriching the lives of others. Hopefully this site does just that and gives female athletes what they’ve been looking for to better their sport, lives and relationships with other athletes… men included ;~)
Terry:
Last year runnerspace did race videos. I’m sure that someone will get vid this year and I bet Ken will link to it.
Come join us next year.
Joanna
Are women being left out?
Ever looked for decathlon for women?
Ever looked for Pentathlon All American Standards for Masters Women?
You are absolutley right Daphne. I looked on the National Masters News site and could not find a Women’s Decathlon or Pentathlon category for an All-American Standard. Now this is just a shot in the dark and is no excuse for not having an All-American standard for women in those events, but could it be that there just are not enough women decathletes competing to properly formulate a reasonable standard? I tried to look up on-line Masters Decathlon, Pentathlon and Heptathlon Championships results and to tell you the truth, it was hard to find the men’s, as well as the women’s results. I did find two. One was the 2008 USATF National Masters Decathlon/Heptathlon USA/GRB/CAN Combined Events Challenge in Joplin, Missouri ( http://www.usatf.org/groups/Masters/results/2008Dec.pdf )and the 2009 USA National Masters Combined Events Championships in Shoreline, Washington ( http://www.mastersrankings.com/meetresults.php?pseason=outdoor&cyear=2009&meetno=A984 ). I don’t know what the turn outs for other Multi-Event championships are, but when you look at the results from these two recent meets you’ll see that the 2008 Championships had 44 men Decathletes compete, 5 women Heptathletes and 2 women Decathletes with only one American woman competing in the Decathlon. The 2009 Combined events Championships had 47 men compete in the Decathlon, 6 women in the heptathlon and 7 women in the decathlon. Maybe it’s not a sexist issue, but one of lack of interest or not enough data to properly post a womens Decathlon standard. Contact the USATF chairperson that oversees the Masters side of things at the USATF Indy offices and let them know you want this issue to be addressed.
Thanks, Joanna—I look forward to seeing the races, especially the 3K. That field is stacked–great job in recruiting! I would love to run there and will absolutely keep it in mind for next year.
Terry
Milton I agree with you about the lack of interest point. However, just where is this lack of interest?
How can USATF hold “Nationals” for women decathletes from 2006 and yet fail to acknowledge the National records set until the very end of 2009? As for world records, well we are still waiting for the organizations to catch up with the few brave female athletes who are venturing into new territory. How many athletes does it take to set a national or world record???
Speak to any track college team and you’ll meet female hepathletes who really really really want to do a decathlon but alas, since they have breasts, they are not afforded the opportunity.
Ladies 3K results are up:
http://www.portlandtrack.org/festival/Results/2010/PTF_2010_Results_Session_2_Saturday_Distance.htm
Scroll down about 1/3 of the way.
Super job!
2010 USATF National Combined Events Championships in Joplin, Missouri…47 Men decathletes and 4 Women decathletes showed up to compete. Not taking any credit away from the outstanding women athletes that did competed… ladies, you’ve got to do better than that for a turn out if you want Women to be recognized in the decathlon as Mrs. Sluys and other women want. As Mrs. Sluys put it in her previous post, “…Since they have breasts, they are not afforded the opportunity. (to compete in the decathlon)” Well here was another opportunity given and how many women took advantage of it from around the country?? …Four…Not exactly a show of solidarity on behalf of women around this nation who want to compete in the decathlon as Mrs. Sluys implies. Just because you personally like an event, or have friends that compete in it, does it demand for a revolutionary change. Mrs. Sluys stated this about the few that are competing in the decathlon as,”… the few brave female athletes who are venturing into new territory.” This is hardly the crossing of uncharted oceans to find the new world. Women need to show up to these Championships and meet’s in larger numbers, that are already open for women to compete in and then you’ll be making a statement to bring change. Instead the only statement made this year was, 47 Men – 4 Women…You just have to do better than that. Good luck in 2011.
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