Enter the masterstrack.com essay contest: Win a T-shirt!
In late 1999, the hit counter on our home page stood at 000000. In the next week or so, that counter will click over to 1,000,000 –a million page loads of the gateway to masterstrack.com. To celebrate this humbling milestone, Dave Clingan and I have decided to hold a mini-essay contest. The winner gets a masterstrack.com T-shirt.
The rules:
1. Write on the topic: Why masterstrack.com is valuable to me.
2. Write no more than 200 words.
3. Post your essay to the Forum or as a comment here on the blog.
4. Deadline is Oct. 1, 2006.
5. No bribing the judges (Dave and I).
On Oct. 2 (or whenever we get around to it), Dave and I will review the essays and pick the one that best captures the masterstrack.com spirit. Or maybe the one with the fewest spelling and punctuation errors.
After we announce the winner, we’ll ask for your snail address.
Writers to your marks!
Good luck!
4 Responses
Masterstrack.com has inspired me and given me a way to measure myself as an athlete amongst my peers…It has shown me that it is possible to compete at a high level, no matter what the age…It has given me a chance to voice my opinions in the Masters Track and field community…Finally, it documents and puts in the books, my participation, dedication and small mark that I have hopefully left in the masters track and field community with the wishes that it inspires others to set the bar higher and work harder just like the athletes older than myself did for me.
Why Masterstrack.com is valuable to me – David E. Ortman (M53) Seattle, WA
Masterstrack.com is the best thing since athletic tape. It is my one-stop for masters meets, results, rankings, training, contacts, and screeds. It helps me relive all the injuries of my youth.
It is also a small miracle because it is run by volunteers, in contrast to the bloated commercial packaging of professional sports. Our sports media is fixated on pro sports and multi-million dollar contracts. Once every four years you may get a glimpse on TV of athletes throwing, running or jumping in their underwear at the Olympics. But, by and large, sports coverage ends at the age of 40, unless you drive around in an electric cart chasing a white ball in a cow pasture during which time your heart rate never goes higher than a couch potato.
Masterstrack.com fills this gap admirably. If something significant happens by an aging, but still youthful trackster or fieldster, masterstrack.com is all over it like stink on a jock strap. Masterstrack.com means that I am never without a quick track fix, with the best of masters track and field at my fingertips. Where else can you go? Perspiring minds want to know.
I like to read Masterstrack.com for up to date and juicy information about what is happening in the Masters track community. Ken is doing a great job of keeping the Master Track people and us geezerjocks
with very timely, entertaining and informative writing. So send me the darn T-shirt
Masterstrack.com is priceless, because it has opened up a whole new world of information for me. A little over a year ago I didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t know this sport for masters existed. Now I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m not only aware of its existence, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m knee-deep in participation! Masterstrack.com gives me news, updates, advice, and ?¢‚Ǩ?ìbehind the scenes?¢‚Ǩ¬ù views that would rival any news show or magazine. And it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s infinitely more entertaining!
A Masterstrack T-shirt would also be valuable to me. It would expand my wardrobe options. I could wear it for errands on the weekends, as an after-workout cover-up, and as a key part of my work outfit on casual Fridays. I would be lookin?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ quite chill in such a shirt.
No matter if I win the shirt or not, I still get to log on to this site and soak it all in. My experiences with masters track have been greatly enhanced by it, so thanks Ken and Dave for doing what you do, and for making it even better for the rest of us.
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