One of my criteria for feeling old is when you realise that it is the children off your contemporaries that are being written about in Athletics Weekly.
AW recently ran a story about Adam Cotton, the European junior 1500 metres champion, and his move to the states.
I remember his dad Dave as, among other things, the winner of the National 50km walking championships at Trafford Park. In fact I took a photo of him (on my old Kodak Instantmatic) on his way to his victory in 4:14:25.
I should have been competing (I was living just a few miles away that summer in Manchester) but I had suffered the worst case of (self inflicted ) sickness and "the trots" I have ever had in my life after taking some sausages to a hotel room in Preston (without a fridge) to save using my expenses to eat out. Trots and race walking are not supposed to go together.
Actually I am beginning to worry less about my age as I write this because I can remember so much about the weekend when Dave won that race.
It was the weekend that Derek Harrison shared a bed with Graham Young in my house in Levenshulme. Don't worry, it was Derek on the Friday night and Graham on Saturday!
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Gail and I were in the stadium at Tallinn last summer when Adam won the 1500m European Junior race - it was a great performance. We are looking forward to seeing him again this summer in the World Juniors in Barcelona!
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