Senior Olympian Sprinter

Last weekend was the big indoor meet in Winston-Salem, NC.  A great turn out of around 1000 athletes made for some very solid competition and a lot of new world records.   I competed for the SoCal track team and we did not win the team competition this meet, as we did in Spokane.  Our group was down several competitors due to injuries and various other reason.  We had a very small group, but we did manage to score fourth in the team competition and score a lot of gold medals int he process.   I already blogged about the people in the meet and this entry will be basically the nuts of bolts of the competition for me.  I am 62 this year and right in the middle of my age group and I signed up for the 60, 200, 400 and High Jump and also competed in 2 relays--4 x 200 and 4 x 400.  I did not make the 60 finals and ran 7 th in the 400.  I ran pretty good in the 400--65.65-- but did not really seem to have any real juice at the end of the 2 laps and faded a bit at the end for 7th..   Accord

I participated in the USATF Masters Indoor National meet last weekend in Winston-Salem, NC.   It was good meet for me and I will add the details of the results in another post later this week.  What I want to reflect on here is the quality of people in that building.   I am just so impressed with the high level of competition and caring for each other that goes on for 3 days.  Hug and Cry Area for Awards  There were around 1000 competitors for the event, and with families and officials, generally 500 to 2000 people were in the building during the times the track was open. It was not completely full at JDL Fast Track, but a really good crowd. North Carolina passed some very hateful and just plain repressive legislation a few years back concerning rest room usage and anything that did not meet the "hateful Jesus" religion that they were  promoting.   The NBA pushed back and moved their All Star Game location and I think this may have gotten the attention of the politicia