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Photography (and writing) by Tom Phillips |
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Moving Mountains |
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Over the last five years or so, I’ve found time to gather my thoughts and produce a few articles for publications such as Britain’s “Masters Athletics” magazine, and “The Southerner”, the quarterly journal of the Southern Counties Veterans Athletics Club.
Some of these articles are reflections on particular championships, others are my take on some of the issues affecting Masters athletics—particularly issues related to age-ism. Rather than just have these gathering cyberdust on my hard drive, I’ve reproduced the best of them on this site.
I make no claims for great literature with any of this, but a few people have been kind enough to say they enjoy my occasional Blog on this site, so they may just enjoy these articles too.
When I get the chance, I’ll get them turned into individual PDF files too.
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My Writing |
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List of articles
“The Nature of Inspiration” —My musings on the heroes of my youth
“The man who never gave up” – A tribute to the late Jim Day
“Heroes or Freaks” —Well, what are we?
“It all depends on the relays” - A diary of the Eurovets ’07 in Helsinki
“Riccione through the Lens” - A diary of my first World Championships
“Take Heed!” - An article for “The Southerner” about competition
“A close up view of Clermont Ferrand” - World Masters Indoors diary
“Age is no hurdle” - An article for the my Club’s magazine
“How old is Old?” - An article I add a piece to every now and then!
“Fear of failure” - some musings on success
“Why do swimmers have it so easy? - about innovation (?) in our sport
“It’s an age thing” - My fury at the IAAF
“An open letter” - to the BBC athletics commentators
“Desert Island Risks” - an essay about reminiscences (sort of)
“My Lahti” - reflections on exceeding my own expectations
All of these articles are © Tom Phillips and may not be reproduced in other publications or in other formats without my specific permission.
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