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  • Doping in sport: the evidence for performance enhancement at the Olympics

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    Will the London Olympics be the cleanest yet? The audience at the Bishop-Lefanu lecture for 2012 were sceptical, 59% disagreeing with the proposition. The lecture, given every two years, commemorates W J Bishop, librarian at the Wellcome, founder of the Medical Section of the Library Association, the ancestor of HLG, and William LeFanu, Librarian of…

  • Running in the harem

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    Continuing my art-orgy, started with a visit to the Hammershoi at the Royal Academy, I went to Tate Britain, to see both Martin Creed’s Work no 850 and the Orientalism exhibition. I’ve referred to Creed before, on my running blog, but seeing it is another matter. Runners, I counted four different ones, three men, one…

  • Seven for the seven stars in the sky

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    Or seven for the Seventh World Congress, in Unity Theatre’s parody of Green Grow the Rushes O, that we used to sing when I was a young thing. The line refers to the Seventh Congress of the Comintern, at which the popular front strategy was launched. There is also a variant line, ‘seven for the…

  • Neolithic marathon

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    Most of the time I keep my running safely away from this, my main blog, but I must record here that yesterday I ran the Neolithic Marathon, my sixth, in a time of 4:17:32. Technorati Tags: avebury, stonehenge, wiltshire

  • Isle of Wight marathon

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    I only let running spill over into the mainstream blog when I run a race. So let it be known that today I finished the Isle of Wight Marathon in 4 hours, 10 minutes and 40 seconds, a personal best for the distance.

  • Beachy Head Marathon

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    Normally running posts are kept strictly segregated but in this case…yesterday I finished the Beachy Head Marathon in an unofficial time of 4 hours 51 minutes and 54 seconds. More here

  • Seaford half marathon

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    It was the Seaford half marathon today. For details see the training blog and for photos see the running photo album

  • London Marathon

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    I don’t let running spill over into this blog very often, but for once I must.I ran the London Marathon in 4 hours 32 minutes and 11 seconds, coming 17861st, 14151st among the men and 1562nd in my age group.My BSMS colleague Claire Brooks did it in 4:16:14For more see the running blog

  • Hastings Half Marathon

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    Full details over on the Marathon Training blog, but I ran the Hastings Half Marathon today which I completed in 1:43:44, by my watch.

  • Sussex Beacon Half Marathon

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    It’s not my practice to overload this blog with references to my running which would be a tedious waste of bandwidth, but I do record races I have taken part in. So see the marathon training blog for an account of today’s Sussex Beacon Half Marathon.

  • London Marathon 2005

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    I heard this morning that I’ve been accepted as one of the Blue Cross’s Golden Bond team for the 2005 London marathon. This is fantastic, and I hope as many readers of this as possible will sponsor me. I ran a marathon in October but in a fairly disgraceful time. For this one I intend…

  • Mince Pie Ten Mile: official results

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    Official times now up: I was 145th at 1:25:19.

  • Mince Pie Ten Mile

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    i ran the Seaford Striders Mince Pie Ten Mile this morning and in spite of being at parties on Friday and Saturday my watch says I did it in 1:25:17. I await the official time.

  • Beachy Head Marathon once more

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    Results now up. I was 492nd, time of 5:21. And then by some miracle, they adjusted the results. My time remains the same, but my position suddenly moved up to 486th

  • Beachy Head Marathon

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    It’s not my practice to overload this blog with references to my running, which is mostly a private vice, but I must record my first marathon today, the Beachy Head marathon, completed in a pretty disgraceful 5 hours and 20 minutes. If anyone cares, there’s photos in the running photo album: not edited yet. Overheard…

  • Jog shop jog photos

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    Are now up in the running photo album. Unflattering in the extreme, but that’s not the fault of Digimoments, who were the JSJ photographers and kindly gave me permisssion to put these up

  • Jog shop jog

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    I ought to mention my dismal performance in the Jog Shop Jog: 210th out of 213. Some photos will appear soon. The results list incorrectly says I’m a member of the Seaford Striders: as Chaplin replied when asked if he was Jewish at the time he’d made the Great Dictator, “I’m afraid I don’t have…

  • Seaford half marathon

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    Hitherto I’ve stopped myself from blogging about my running, arguing to myself that: a) the world at large couldn’t care less b) and what I do isn’t in any sense noteworthy c) I’ve only been doing it for a few months and d) it smack of self-obsession (the runner’s vice) However, on Sunday 6th June…

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