Almost five thousand athletes --many grey at temple and even more tight of muscle - have been put through their paces at the New Zealand Masters Games in Whanganui this week.
Participants aged between 20 and 94 years old have been competing in 56 sports raging from cowboy action shooting to jigsaw puzzle racing and most everything in-between.
Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin went along to take a look.
