Celebrating 10 years of masterstrack.com with site updates!
On November 5, 1999, masterstrack.com was registered as a domain name. As co-webmasters, Dave Clingan and I soon began posting meet calendars, rankings lists, news blurbs, photos and fire-breathing rants. (See some early examples.) So this site — a successor to my original Masters Track & Field Home Page — has turned 10. But lately we’ve been showing our age. Aside from this blog, major subsections went to seed. I lived up to my rep as the procrastinator webmaster. But recently, I began some major revisions, bringing subsections into the blog template and updating moldy oldie pages.
You might have noticed the search² link. Check it out! Peruse our freshened records page. Stroll down to the FAQ. (Still a work in progress.) Amble about the about page.
Thumb through the archives.
But whatever you do, stay away from the links
page. It’s a disaster. It has an annoying bug that generates a pop-up ad. Not my intention! It’s also my next big redo. Truth be told, it
hasn’t been the “World’s best listing of masters track Web sites” in
years.
Count on the links page to return to its former glory soon.
And thanks for your patience as we build a better masterstrack.com!
Related posts:
- masterstrack.com blog turns 6; site going on 13 years
- Coming this spring: New improved masterstrack.com
19 Responses
Congrats and thank you. It’s one of my first stops each morning. Keep up the great work! Bubba
Good time to thank you, Ken, for all you to do foster the track and field community spirit and keep us informed. I don’t know how we’d do without this website!
Happy Anniversary. Have benefitted from this site since 2000 when I became a true Master M40. Keep up he great work. KP
Thank you for 10 years of excellent service to the Master’s track/field community. Part of my lunch time ritual each day is to visit the site for the latest news and views. Mastertrack.com keeps me informed and motivated about the sport I love. Thanks again!
Thanks to you, Ken, and to Doug Smith for more specifically Canadian content, I feel I have at least some awareness of what’s what for Masters Athletics, even though the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island is not exactly a centre for masters track activity. Like Bubba (who I’ve never met, but whose achievements I’m aware of thanks to you) this is one of the sites I check most days. Congratulations for TEN YEARS of dedication to keeping us informed.
Ken, you have done a wonderful job. Putting out something day after day, year after year, would be quite strenuous for someone who is not employed, but you have a paying job in addition to this site.
I consider you to be somewhat akin to a meet director; directing a meet is a labor of love that too often goes unappreciated. After the meet is over, however, the meet director can calm down a bit, while you, Ken, simply go on to the next thing. It’s rather amazing.
Amerika, Du hast es besser!
Bravo und Danke, KEN!
Grazie! Merci beaucoup!
Thanks a lot Ken for your work ‘spreading the word’ of masters athletics and keeping us informed of the goings on.
- John
MT.com is one of my favorites! Thanks Ken for all that you do!
Thanks Ken!
Peter Matthews of Britain has just shared his annual list of veterans world records for the 35-39 and 40-and-over groups.
See it here:
http://www.masterstrack.com/news2010/peterlist2009.html
These records were set in 2009 in the 35-39 age group:
400 metres  45.68   Alvin Harrison (20.1.74) USA San Juan  5 Apr 2009
400m hurdles   48.13  Danny McFarlane (24.2.72)  JAM Monaco 28 Jul 2009
High jump    2.31  Dragutin Topic (12.3.71) SRB Kragujevac  28 Jul 2009
Pole vault    3.71   Irie Hill (16.1.69)  GBR  Lahti  2 Aug 2009
This record was set in the W40 age group:
Triple jump  13.05 Katalin Deák (4.3.68)  HUN Budapest  14 Jun 2009
WMA recognizes only one of these marks — Irie’s 3.71 at Lahti worlds — as a world record. Yet Peter is probably the most distinguished and revered track statistician of our day. He wouldn’t list a mark unless it met his exacting standards. So go figure.
For 10 years you’ve the glue that’s held the organization together. A single place where you can tell people to go if thery’re interested in masters track and field. Thanks.
Ken,
Thanks for the amazing job you do and the tremendous benefit you provide masters field and track athletes. You are a tremendous masters athlete advocate; we really appreciate that.
Congratulations on 10 years of promoting masters track and field! You find stories to make us think, people to inspire us, issues to argue about, and information to keep us informed. Keep up the great work!
Hey Ken,
Congratulations as one of those guys from the “back in the day” group—born in 1930 with 35 years in Masters competition. There is a deep feeling of gratitude —just reread Olson’s Masters Track history that on page 227 talks about you as a future pioneer who picked up the internet baton from Jess Brewer and was willing to be “going against the grain of the Masters establishment”.(Good historical reading about you, Al Sheahen, Torsten Carlius and Phil Raschker).And the other part of that history is the competitive heart and hope of those guys that I ran with who, if they were here, would also glory in what you have done and the support you receive–Dave Jackson,George Ker(greeting me at the finish line for my 400 meter first place in the very First World Masters Track Championships in 1975 at Toronto, Canada), Ossie Dawkins,Paul Spangler, Dan Aldrich, Bob Watanabe to name a few.In those days your blog would have been full with the exploits of Thane Baker,George Rhoden, Al Guidet, Shirley Davisson and the world record relay times of the Corona Del Mar Club (to which I belonged).So may all of us glory in the internet strides that you have helped make to facilitate a positive and uplifting dialogue that I trust we don’t take for granted with foolish, negative or trashy banter.There has been a past struggle to keep the sport alive, competitive and healthy. (By the way, the guy I beat in Toronto was Hari Chandra from India/Singapore who you just talked about). You got the baton—so “Just do it”.
congrats to you ken ! i thoroughly enjoy reading and writing on this site. you’ve managed to personalize a wide world and deliver it to my home. your labor of love has helped our sport more than the bodies that govern it, and we all take our hats off to you.
Don, our paths must have crossed. I did a lot of training and racing on the UC Irvine track. I raced in the 10,000 at Worlds in Toronto. Thane Baker was a teammate. So many(most)of those great athletes simply stopped training. They became overweight and we know that can be unhealthy. Man, I only have about 25 more Christmases so I’m going for it.(^_^). Jerry
Many thanks and congratulations, Ken, on your 10th anniversary! Every day I visit your blog for pertinent information regarding Masters’ T&F that is not available anywhere else. For this I applaud you and thank you. Most of the comments that are posted on your blog are enlightening, as well. Keep up your efforts and hard work on our behalf. You are appreciated. Blessings, Doug Smith (USA)
Jerry,
Great to have someone connect to those foundation names in Masters track—thanks for message–I’ll join you in having Christmas 25 more times. Run strong. Don
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