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Updated December 16, 2004 You love track. So do we. In fact, masters can argue we love the
sport more than anyone. How many athletes can say they’ve run, jumped
or thrown more than 30, 40 or 80 years? If this describes you, this is your site!
The genesis
of masterstrack.com In February 1996, Ken
Stone of Southern California launched the precursor to masterstrack.com,
hoping to provide a place for masters and veterans to meet, encourage
each other and pursue age-group PRs. Stone also sought to foster
respect and recognition for older athletes. He called his site the
Masters Track
and Field Home Page. It grew and grew, added news, editorial
opinion, a few yucks, a page of links and an athlete database called
the Webmaster
Track Club. But it lacked a substantive meet calendar. And meet
results were skimpy. Enter Dave Clingan of Oregon.
A world-class masters middle-distance runner, Clingan merged his
own masters rankings site with Stone’s home page in November 1999,
and proceeded to develop the most extensive international meet calendar
and results source in any masters medium -- a Herculean task. Stone
and Clingan now strongly believe this site can help promote the
movement faster than any other time in its young history. But more important than anything Clingan and Stone do is what YOU do. Get in shape. Enter a meet. Break your own recent records. Make friends. Have a blast. Be the track star you once were -- or imagined you could be. How can we help? For starters, check out our FAQ
file -- an introduction to the masters track program both in
the USA and overseas. Review the masters
records to appreciate the best of our amazing brethren (and
sisteren). Read and post to our blog. Just as important is joining the egroups Masterstf
Mailing List -- a worldwide masters track discussion group that
serves as a sounding board, listening post and gathering place for
our niche. Like our track careers, this site is perpetually under construction.
We also have families, full-time jobs and household chores. So this
site has areas of “great promise.” (We just request great patience.) Also be aware that this site is completely independent and unofficial.
We have many friends in the USATF
and WMA masters
track organizations, but we aren’t an arm of these groups. Masterstrack.com
is the voice of the masters athlete -- you. Welcome to masters track. Enjoy masterstrack.com! Ken Stone and Dave Clingan, webmasters
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