Bermuda's former two-time Olympic sprinter Gregory Simons is about to renew some past rivalries on the track.

Come next week, Simons will compete at the US Indoor Masters Championships to be held at the Reggie Lewis Centre in Boston.

And in July the College of Southern Idaho Hall of Fame inductee will surround himself in familiar settings at the World Masters Outdoor Championships in Puerto Rico where he will rub shoulders with an elite field of former track stars in the 40 and over age category.

Simons represented the Island during both the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and 1984 Games in Los Angeles and was the first track and field athlete to be inducted into the College of Southern Idaho's prestigious Hall of Fame last February.

He attended the US college from 1977 to 1979 where he won the National Championship in the 400 metres in 1979 and was later named an All-American that same year. To this day Simons still holds three school records in the 100, 200 and 400 metres and held a record in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) 400 metres for 17 years.

Simons, who heads to Boston next Thursday, returned to the Southern Idaho campus in 1982 where he served as an assistant coach of the college's track team.

Next week's indoor championships in Boston will mark the first occasion at which the Bermudian has competed at an indoor meet since retiring from indoor competition in 1979.

"It will be new to me," he said. "It will be the first time that I have run indoors since I left college. But I have competed on the outdoor circuit at the US nationals."

Simons, currently a Class Two football referee, qualified for the semifinal heats at the last World Masters Championships held in Australia.

"At the moment I have just come off my winter training which is was basically a bit of distance running and weight lifting," Simons explained.

"I will be using the indoor meet as a stepping stone to basically see where I'm at. Outdoor training will start when I get back and from there on in it's going to be some serious work leading up to this summer."

The veteran speed merchant is confident that he will do well against some of the best over-40 athletes in the world.

"I feel pretty good this year," he reckoned. " I had a really good winter workout and now it's just a matter of putting out some good speed work on the track."