Archive for April 20, 2010

Lucky Oregonians: They get to race and watch themselves online

Anyone who ran track before, say, 1996 was cheated out of a truly cool experience: watching videos of themselves online. In 1971, I saw a film of myself running the 180-yard low hurdles at the Chaffey Invitational in Southern California. Just once. Today, that race would be online. Instant access, all the time. In Oregon, […]

April 20, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

WMA errs by a country mile on Daprano’s W70 world record

Over the weekend, 73-year-old Jeanne Daprano ran a fantastic mile. She clocked 7:02.86 at her association masters meet in Statesboro, Georgia. When I got the results from Jim and Joyce Hite, the meet directors, I checked the USATF records. I saw Jeanne was about 15 seconds off her own W70 American record. Then I proceeded […]

April 20, 2010   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

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  Ken has followed track as an athlete, writer and web-master since the late 1960s, and saw most sessions of track and field at the 1984 Los Angeles and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He also attended the 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Trials, the last three as a blogger and Patch correspondent. [More...]
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