Aaron Thigpen gets ready to lead off M40 relay team attemping to set a world record in the 4x100 event. Yellow tape on track marks his start line, the result of failure of finish-line camera on other side of the track.

Aaron Thigpen of SpeedWest Track Club explodes from blocks in 4x1. The gun went off at 4:06 p.m. -- more than 90 minutes after the scheduled 2:30 p.m. start of the relay.

Former NFL star Willie Gault anchors the 4x1 relay to a hand-timed world best 41.4 in the M40 age group -- not likely to be ratified as a record. Later, Willie would run 10.60 for 100 and 21.6X in the 200.

M65 Doug Smith and W35 Colleen Barney, training partners for the past several years in Orange County, California, finally meet for a match race they'd been talking about for months.

Colleen Barney had a slight lead at the start of the 100, but Doug Smith came back to beat her by a few tenths. Later, she would beat him in the 200, and they would race a third time -- with Doug squeaking to victory in a 55-meter rubber race.