Sacramento to Host the World Masters Track & Field Championships
This coming July, Sacramento will be hosting the Masters World Athletics Championships (AKA Masters Track and Field World Championships).
If you had a chance to watch or run in last year’s Masters National Championships you know what a great event this should be.
While it may seem a bit early for me to be writing about a July event, registration closes on April 24. You can register online now, and event management says that more than 900 athletes had already registered as of March 23rd.
For track and field, a masters athlete is anyone over 35. There are events from the 100 meters to the marathon, plus the field events, and the venues will be centered around California State University Sacramento.
There are no qualifying standards, so you really should give this a try. All it takes is the guts to take the risk of getting your doors blown off by some grizzled Hungarian who is 10 or even 20-years older than you.
This may be the only chance that most of us will have the opportunity to start a conversation with something like, “Last week, when I was running in the World Championships…”