{"id":21570,"date":"2018-12-21T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T01:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/?post_type=article&p=21570"},"modified":"2018-12-21T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T01:13:25","slug":"from-the-editor-after-50-years-my-favorite-annual-edition-ever","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/trackandfieldnews.com\/article\/from-the-editor-after-50-years-my-favorite-annual-edition-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Editor \u2014 After 50 Years, My Favorite Annual Edition Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"WHAT A YEAR 2018 turned out to be. Conventional wisdom had it positioned as one of those off-years with no Olympics or World Championships to brighten our lives\u2014at least that\u2019s what glass-half-full types think\u2014but as is always the case, the athletes came through big-time anyway. Kipchoge, Semenya, Mayer, Duplantis\u2014the list of high-end performers was boundless. They made it easy for us to produce my favorite issue of every year, the Annual Edition, what with all its Rankings and lists. And this is probably my favorite of all the 50 (yes, 50!) Annuals of which I\u2019ve played a part.<\/p>\n

It shouldn\u2019t take much time for veteran subscribers to notice the marked upgrade in the World Rankings in this, our first Annual of the digital age. In years past we laid out the complete season for the No. 1s in each event, with most of the others in the Top 10 having their seasons pared down in order for us to be able to squeeze an event onto a single print page. But as a wise trackwriter once said, \u201cElectrons are free,\u201d and that means there\u2019s no more squeezing required: not only have we laid out for you the complete season for each member of the top 10, we\u2019ve also added 2 more columns to the mix. In the recent past, the Rankings have given you just the mark\/place\/meet. Now you also get the date of the meet and\u2014and this is a big one\u2014a column detailing all those who beat the athlete in the meet in question. That should go a long way towards making our Ranking decisions easier to figure out. And as another adjunct to the whole increase-your-pleasure dynamic, each event has a link to yearly Top 50 lists instead of Top 40.<\/p>\n

And best of all, you\u2019re going to get the whole shebang\u2014for the first time ever\u2014before the end-of-year holidays. Such is the wonder of digital publishing. Push a button and it\u2019s done. No waiting at a printing plant, no disappearance down the rabbit hole that is the postal system. Direct from us to you at the speed of light.<\/p>\n

Unlike running, however, we realize that speed isn\u2019t everything in the entertainment biz. There\u2019s something to be said about the look and feel of an ink & paper product. That\u2019s why while we\u2019re completely committed by the realities of the modern marketplace to making a go of the digital enterprise, we\u2019ve also been trying to bring some satisfaction to those faithful readers who simply can\u2019t live without some tree product.<\/p>\n

Our first stab in that direction was the PDF version, which allows you to print out a \u201ccopy\u201d of the online magazine either at home or your local Kinko\u2019s. The early PDFs were, to be honest, a fairly feeble product as we struggled with a formidable transition from decades of ingrained hard-copy methodologies. Ugly huge blocks of white space, bad breaks between articles, ultra-wide columns. As the year went on, we refined the process, so if you got turned off back in April, try ones from later in the year to see how much we improved the product.<\/p>\n

The New Print Version<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

We\u2019ve not given up trying to improve your ability to get to a style of T&FN you can live with, so we\u2019re happy to announce that starting with January \u201919 we\u2019ll be able to offer you something in the ink & paper realm that\u2019s closer to the old days. Make no mistake: this is not T&FN<\/em> as you once knew it, but it\u2019ll be pretty darn close. In essence we\u2019ll be taking the PDF version and turning that into a printed version that we can mail to you. There are some cautions: in the printing industry to make it an economic possibility we\u2019re required to produce pages in multiples of 8, meaning that when the PDFs are converted, there will almost surely be some copy that gets eliminated\/truncated to make it fit. Or perhaps a photo or two will disappear.<\/p>\n

In addition to the multiples-of-8 wrinkle there\u2019s also the matter of our having to produce a product that isn\u2019t so long it decimates an entire Canadian forest. For example, a \u201creplica\u201d print version of this Annual would stretch to some 200pp. That\u2019s just a non-starter, so all that wonderful detail that\u2019s in the Rankings will have to disappear (as it will from the PDF version, but note that if you\u2019re reading the PDF version onscreen, it includes links to the fully detailed Rankings on our website).<\/p>\n

Hopefully we\u2019ve now struck upon a mix of options that will please everybody and you\u2019ll hang with us long enough to see many more great years of field & track. We\u2019ve derived great pleasure through the years in serving the world\u2019s hardcore fans and we plan on continuing to do so.<\/p>\n

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