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Jack Karbens leads the Hawaii Masters Track Club and shows the aloha spirit with a gift of macadamia popcorn crunch. Mahalo!
Date: 08/12/2005
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Athletes pick up their packets at registration under the baseball stadium, which was considered a little chaotic the first day.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Once you made it through the line, helpful volunteers sorted things out.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Sid Howard and Val Barnwell, old friends (and world champions) from New York, greeted each other at registration.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Distance-running giant Gerry Lindgren camped out and sold his self-published autobiography at the registration area -- but did not compete at nationals.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Lindgren admitted that he called late for entry. The meet dirtector said he missed the deadline by a week.
Date: 08/12/2005
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In an informal interview that I videotaped, Lindgren told stories of his heyday just after high school in the early 1960s.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Women's track historian and author Louse Tricard also stopped by to pepper Lindgren with questions.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Louise also competed in these championships, taking third in the 200 in her age group.
Date: 08/12/2005
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A Hawaiian official and coach also was transfixed by Lindgren's anecdotes, which he planned to share with his athletes.
Date: 08/12/2005
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A one-day haul of gold medals (with national championships patches) won by Dick Richards and Doug Smith of California.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Jim Selby of California leads the M75 800 and also would win the 2K steeplechase in this meet.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Sid Howard leads Mack Stewart at 200 meters in the M65 800.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Howard has 200 to go in the 800, which he would win in 2:25.29, a second ahead of Stewart.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Richard Sobel of Cambridge, Mass., was no flop in the M55 high jump -- he would take second after a marathon jumpoff.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Ed Baskauskas of Northern California won the M55 high jump despite an Achilles' tendon handicap.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Sobel's form improved over the course of the event. His best height was 1.51 -- just under 5 feet.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Sobel flies toward the bar in competition with an old rival from college days.
Date: 08/12/2005
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Jumpers learn of the tie-breaking process, which would pit Baskauskas (a Harvard alum) against Sobel (from Princeton).
Date: 08/12/2005
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More than 30 years ago, Baskauskas (left) and Sobel jumped often against each other in the Ivy League. This was their first meeting since the 1970s.
Date: 08/12/2005
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