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Bayes plaque
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bayes theorem, Edinburgh, FRS, plaque, Royal Society, Scotland, Thomas Bayes, University of Edinburgh on November 22, 2019 by xi'an
male masters
Posted in Running, Travel with tags California, Golden Gate Bridge, Grand Master, half-marathon, JASA, plaque, podium, road running, San Francisco half-marathon on November 5, 2016 by xi'an
Yesterday, I received this wood plaque from the organisers of the San Francisco Marathon! Nice, as I had not expected them to deliver abroad. And with this surprising title of second place in the male masters. After checking on Google (and avoiding a long list of SM sites), it appears that this means the above 40 category, which I had never heard of before. (I would have preferred an above 50 category, obviously! Which appears to exist in some races as the Grand Master category, even better!) Looking further at some of the (running) links, it also appears that categories by weight have been introduced in some races… Not that I can expect to benefit from that further division!
