Edna (with javelin) and Sandy (inset) added to their running legends in Ithaca, New York.

Records January 18, 2025

Indoor mile world records fall to W85 Sandy Folzer and W90 Edna Hyer at Hartshorne

The annual Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile races Saturday morning produced two world indoor records — 9:45.24 in W85 by Sandra “Sandy” Folzer of Philadelphia and 15:01.31 in W90 by Edna Hyer of Orchard Park, New York. Adam Engst, race director and president of the Finger Lakes Runners Club, reports from Cornell University in upstate New York that three USATF officials were on hand for the paperwork. Results are here. Adam writes: In our first race of the day, W85 Sandra Folzer ran a 9:45.24 to bury Ivy Granstrom’s (Canada) previous record of 13:00.96 from 1999 by over 3:15. (The American…

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Dr. Allan Tissenbaum easily takes his 60-meter heat race at Torun world masters indoor meet.

Guest Essay April 8, 2023

Dr. Tissenbaum’s trip to Toruń was more than medal hunt — a search for Jewish meaning

Forget Dr. Delano Meriwether, the iconic sprinting medical doc of the early 1970s. My favorite fast physician is Dr. Allan Tissenbaum of Pittsburgh, whose up-and-down (via injury) career I’ve followed for decades. At the recent Torun world indoor meet, Dr. T took M60 60 gold in 7.71 seconds. (I’m predicting he’ll win the M100 100 outdoor title in four decades.) That is, if he can heal up from his myriad injuries. In Poland, he attempted only the short dash, saying he was dealing with “nerve upper extremity stuff.” No matter. His heart and mind were all right. Upon his return…