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.