Archive for June 30, 2009
Major survey says old age begins at 68! Not for us folks, tho
Pete Magill linked to this great demographic/opinion survey. It says: “When Does Old Age Begin? At 68. That’s the average of all answers from the 2,969 survey respondents. But as noted above, this average masks a wide, age-driven variance in responses. More than half of adults under 30 say the average person becomes old even […]
June 30, 2009
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Check-in confusion at Oshkosh? Here’s the latest poop
Several athletes and meet officials have been exchanging email on a simple question: If your running event at Oshkosh goes straight to final, do you have to check in the day before for a phantom prelim? What followed wasn’t so simple. Someone wrote to assistant meet director Jason Fast, and he punted the query to […]
June 30, 2009
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Texas Masters Championships features hot sprints, throws
Wayne Bennett, the fastest 72-year-old meet director in the West, shares results from Saturday’s Texas Masters Championships at Coppell High School north of Dallas. Some nice Southwest sprint times noted. Besides Wayne’s own 14.40 and 30.82, I liked M40 John Simpson’s 11.10 and 22.99 and M60 Bill Lewis’ 12.99 — but he was DNF in […]
June 30, 2009
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