Canadian sprinter rescues, rejiggers Ross Dunton’s site
Jimson Lee, a mid-40s Vancouver sprinter and track blogger, learned of Ross Dunton’s Web site plight and offered to help. Ross accepted Jimson’s generous invitation to host — for free — Ross’ training and technique site. Jimson writes: “I organized the front page to list ALL the articles, added a few more, then added the Search functionality to all the pages. I started adding ‘related posts’ at the bottom of each page, so the user can find similar pages.”
Jimson informed me of his plans in late July:
“I contacted Ross immediately after his website announcement, and decided to continue www.coachr.org where I will host it for free on my servers.
As well, I will convert it to a blog format, as a blog has the power to do:
1) the 200+ coaching articles will be sorted by categories
2) the bi-weekly or tri-weekly digest of news will appear in chronological format
But the most important aspect is: it must remain free of charge and be available to anyone, coach or athlete, at any time, to improve themselves.
The domain name registration for coachr.org shows Ross as the contact. But Jimson is now The Man.
Nice work, JL. Best of luck at Riccione!
Canadian sprint legend Harold Morioka looks to 2008
If World Masters Athletics had a Hall of Fame, Isao “Harold” Morioka would be in it. He holds three world indoor records (M50 and M60 400 and M60 800). But Harold, a world outdoor 400/800/400H champ as far back as 1989, has been hobbled since at least 2003. This I learned after contacting him by email. I hadn’t heard his results in recent years. He graciously replied: “Thank you for thinking about me. When I was in Puerto Rico in 2003, I was injured. I wasn’t going to go to Puerto Rico, but since I had paid for everything I thought that I would try to run. I had plantar fasciitis.”
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Quick Silver - October 6, 2006
A solution for many people with knee problems like Harold’s is to switch to racewalking. It may sound counter-intuitive, but racewalking is in fact very easy on the knees, as there’s only limited flexion during the stride.
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tommy aunan - October 10, 2006
quick silver,
i am a racewalker, even racewalking can create knee problems..my left knee is not 100% after the the 20K racewalk at Worlds in San Sebastian 2005 of which 1/2 the course was on cobblestone..which is not compatible with master athletes knees..many people got injured on the racewalk course in San Sebstian and I let World Masters know about it too..and they confirmed several injuries to ankles, knees and hips. Very bad judgement of having a World Masters racewalk course on cobblestone..moronic if you ask me!!
