Archive for January, 2003
Farewell to Silverstein and Groves
The cruelest word in masters track isn’t DQ. It’s retirement. Unlike retirement in open/elite track, which means easing off the professional treadmill, masters athletes who bow out are usually forced to do so by injury or life circumstances. It’s not something they look forward to. National Masters News runs letters from athletes announcing their retirement, […]
January 6, 2003
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Performance lists going down the drain
Ross Dunton has started posting seasonal rankings for World Masters Athletics. But unlike the elite performance lists on the IAAF site, Dunton’s are a complete botch. Utterly useless. What’s wrong with Dunton’s lists? Gawd, where do we begin?
January 5, 2003
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A blog to boggle masters track
Ready to rock? After nearly seven years of fits-and-starts, this site has gone high-tech. No more procrastinator webmaster. No more weeks between News updates. When the muse strikes, I can post to masterstrack.com instantly — from anywhere — thanks to the miracle of blog software. That’s blog as in Weblog. An exploding form of online […]
January 5, 2003
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