Bruce Solomon is a South African athlete in pursuit of an All Blacks winger - with a difference.
He doesn't play rugby. Instead, he is the best athlete for his age in the Bay of Plenty who is running down a dream to be the quickest Masters athlete New Zealand has ever seen.
The Masters Games records the 50-year-old covets belong to Bruce McPhail - who played two tests for the All Blacks in the mid-1950s.
Solomon wants to change all that. "My challenge is to chase his records, so I've got some good training to do and some good numbers to chase," he said.
Time and the calendar appear to be on his side. He turned 50 on December 24, meaning he fits the mould outlined in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers of an athlete born at the perfect time of year to succeed in age-grade competition. Indeed, he broke the Waikato/BOP M50 (athletes aged between 50-54) 200m record at a WBOP Championship meeting on January 12 - less than three weeks after his 50th birthday.