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I'm suffering Dara Torres envy. I'm not jealous of Torres making her fifth U.S. Olympic team at age 41, or her 50-meter sprint times in the pool. I'm envious of how the world has elevated her to superstar Masters status ahead of others more deserving. She's a phenom, no doubt. A mother of a young girl, Torres has been profiled in the New York Times Magazine and countless TV and Web clips. At Beijing, she'll swim the 50-meter freestyle, 4x100-meter medley relay, and 4x100-meter freestyle rel... Read More
Jeff Hartwig has company. Exactly a week after pole vaulter Hartwig made the U.S. Olympic team at age 40, a New Hampshire race walker won the 20-kilometer event Sunday in Eugene, Ore., at age 44 -- becoming the oldest American on the track team bound for Beijing. Joanne Dow won the 12.4-mile walk by beating her rival (and friend) Teresa Vaill, 45. Tears flowed as Dow finished the race, realizing her Olympic dream after 12 years of frustration and disappointment. "There was a really large... Read More
Four years ago, at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Sacramento, a 36-year-old pole vaulter was feeling down. He was the American record holder in his event, but for the second Trials in a row, he was an also-ran. He failed to make his second Olympic team. Jeff Hartwig of Arkansas, the star-crossed vaulter, told the media: "I said after 2000 (when he failed to clear his opening height at the Trials): 'I'll never let myself be that disappointed again.' This is par for the course for me at th... Read More
Linda Cohn raised her own W55 American record in the javelin, Annelies Steekelenburg upped her own W60 Dutch record in the high jump and I ran the slowest 100- and 200-meter dashes of my adult life Saturday at the Southern California Association USATF Masters Championships at Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif. Linda was delighted, Annelies thrilled. And me? I was ecstatic beyond words. Say what? Yup, I was hollering with joy Saturday after clocking 14.87 and 31.04 seconds in the 1 a... Read More
Should I do track work? I get this question with some frequency. And yes, there are reasons to do it. But your goals and/or your coach should dictate whether you give it a shot. Track work is useful in that it helps us understand pacing. It allows us to feel what it's like to pace ourselves to hit a particular split time for a particular set of intervals. For example, I have two clients who have run about four marathons apiece. They decided to take this fall off from marathoning a... Read More
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