The 2001 season

started out with a bang for Gibbs who won the gold medal in the 200-meter

Sub-Masters (ages 35-39) at the Atlanta Track Master Meet and won the

silver medal in the 100 meter Sub-Masters (30-39) at the annual Track

and Field Classic in Jacksonville at the popular Bolles Track and Field

Complex.

Injuries did

take their toll on Gibbs last season and led to a last-place finish in

the 100-meter in the Georgia Games.

"I just

thought I could compete and ignore the pre-phase training because I was

physically fit," said Gibbs. "That was a big mistake."

Gibbs has fully

recovered and is training for the Southeastern RegionalChampionships and

the Penn Relays next month.

Gibbs said

he is probably one of the few men who can't wait to turn 40 this year

because he will officially be a masters athlete and plans to compete at

the World Masters Games in Melbourne, Australia this fall.

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