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   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

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   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

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   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment