Late August, Canadian masters runner Jim Dyck of Richmond Hill, Ont., ran a national 800m record of 2:04.2 in the M55 category at a race in Bolton, Ont. Just a few weeks after his record run, Dyck was back on the track at a meet
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Seventy-five-year-old Bohermeen athlete Tommy Durcan won his first 5,000m national title when he romped home in the M75 race at the Athletics Ireland National Masters Track & Field Championships at Santry Stadium on Sunday. The father of seven, grandfather of 19 and
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Masters Athletes are resilient and a beacon at this uncertain time as shows athlete Dan King in this story originally from Runners World. Dan King never knew he was a miler, but he found a silver lining during the coronavirus pandemic. With
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These are strange and strict times indeed as we return to racing through this Covid19 pandemic, and it is of course crucial we try and maintain levels where ever possible to keep it at bay, and it seems a fellow Masters Athlete
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Canadian masters runner Jim Dyck of Richmond Hill, Ont., set a new M55 800m national record of 2:04.2 over the weekend, beating the previous mark of 2:07.1. This is a massive improvement on the Canadian record, and now Dyck is only a little more than
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During the covid19 summer of 2020 we have seen an explosion of virtual events everywhere, from local events to those planing ones to involve a more global audience. I have questioned a few of these personally and their motives which appear to
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GB and Scottish ultra-runner, Jo Zakrzewski, has broken four world records at a single event in Canberra, Australia. The international multi-distance athlete and race doctor completed 236km on the track in a 24-hour race, beating the previous record of 233km. In the
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There may not be a championships in 2020 but you can always count on the Canadians to smile and give you some hope. If it weren’t for COVID-19, Toronto would be hosting the World Masters Athletics Championships right now. While we’ll never
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I woke up this morning with emails and messages and of course my normal news updates from Google, all of these had one thing in common! The news that David Castille whom for many years has been legend on the USATF Masters
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Some time last year way before what would have been the Malaga 2018 World Masters Athletics Championships (which of course has now been cancelled) we discussed that the USATF Masters were in fact arranging some kind of informal donation/sponsorship campaign in order to
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