Jeff Hartwig has company. Exactly a week after pole vaulter Hartwig made the U.S. Olympic team at age 40, a New Hampshire race walker won the 20-kilometer event Sunday in Eugene, Ore., at age 44 -- becoming the oldest American on the track team bound for Beijing. Joanne Dow won the 12.4-mile walk by beating her rival (and friend) Teresa Vaill, 45.
Tears flowed as Dow finished the race, realizing her Olympic dream after 12 years of frustration and disappointment.
"There was a really large...
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The title is a take on a quote by Walter Kerr's "he had delusions of adequacy". It's self-effacing and meant to poke fun at my rowing skills as I train and row with Masters sweep boats.
I enjoy athletics. But I am not by any stretch of my imagination a "jock". My skills often appear to have the best intentions but never to carry into practice. My athletic accomplishments, meager as they are, are personal accomplishments attained in running marathons, walking...
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