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There’s been no running since I injured my knee at St Mary’s park run in Bridport in mid-July. i took too long to consult a doctor, and now, after a second consultation, have a referral for an x-ray and physio.…
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The Twiathlon, 2019
What, pray, I hear you ask, is a Twiathlon? It is an annual event comprising two athletic disciplines, Twitten running and outdoor pool swimming. The first requires, as I may have explained before, runners to meet at 9 am on…
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Seaford Half Marathon: the original, beware imitations
With my fellow Striders at the start The 2019 Seaford Half Marathon took place in the best conditions, if you like something to look at while running. It was bright, clear, but still cool in a breeze from the north-east.…
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Mid-Sussex Marathon Weekend
We are into the fifth month of the year, and I have just completed my first races of 2019, the Mid-Sussex Marathon Weekend. Made up of three races at the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, the East Grinstead Ten Mile,…
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Text Mining and Machine Learning in Systematic Reviews
A group of librarians from NICE, Public Health England, universities and NHS Library and Knowledge services were privileged to attend a workshop on Text Mining and Machine Learning in Systematic Reviews, led by James Thomas, Professor of Social Research and…
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A set-back
I was pleased with myself; I had a plan to get the much-needed long runs in. On Brighton Marathon weekend, I was to go to the Marathon Medical Conference this afternoon, helping with some of the administration, exhibiting on behalf…
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And what of the running?
‘All this is marshalling is all very well, but what about the running?’ That is the question on the lips of every reader of this blog. And I must say that things have not gone entirely to plan. On New…
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Marshalling the Moyleman: 2019: gentlemen have told me they find it extremely invigorating
The Moyleman is a marathon covering the downs around Lewes, which we organise in memory of Chris Moyle, whose running nom de guerre was the Moyleman. When I arrived at Moyleman headquarters on the morning of St Patrick’s Day, Ash,…
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Moyleman GPX file
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The running year: 2018
Looking back on 2018, I feel a certain smugness. My aim was to do a long, that is half-marathon distance, or further, race in each quarter, and that I achieved. On the other hand I am slow, much slower these…
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Beachy Head: first marathon for five years, first Beachy for ten
I took the notion to enter Beachy Head a year ago, after marshalling the 2017 event. I hadn’t done a marathon for a while, and hadn’t done Beachy since 2008. The 2017 day was fine, the runners who passed me…
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Two weeks (or less) to Beachy
With less than two weeks to go to the Beachy Head marathon, I went to the first cross-country event of the 2018-19 season of the East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League, held at the beautiful Snape Wood course near Wadhurst.…
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Lewes Downland 10, 2018
It’s been so long, as Sigmund Freud is supposed to have said to Mrs Freud, when she came back from staying with her mother. Never mind, what’s past is past. What’s the current situation? Beachy Head marathon is in less…
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In memoriam Humphrey, 2011-2018
Helping me with my Greek irregular verbs I first met Humphrey at the Cats Protection League shelter. Our previous cat Eustace had died at a ripe old age, and we had decided we could not live in a catless house.…
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EAHIL 2018 Talking about professional failure: what can we learn from each other?
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On the 70th birthday of the NHS
My father and grandfather were both general practitioners in Cambridge, and starch supporters of the NHS. My grandfather, George Roper, practicing first from Regent Street, then from Lensfield Road, died in October 1948. He saw only a few months…
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Harbour to Marina (and back): the 182 steps (though I’m told there are in fact 186)
Photo by Multisport Management The plan for 2018, to the extent that a plan can ever be said to exist, was to enter a long race in each quarter, culminating in the Beachy Head Marathon at the end of October.…
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Mount Caburn in the foggy, foggy dew
For fifteen years I have run on the downs in my part of Sussex, but for some reason, I have never run over Mount Caburn. Today I rectified that, with the help of Duncan, CharlieCat to his intimates, Race Director…
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Lewes 10k
The cross-country season ended last month but rose again on Easter Monday, with the Lewes 10k. I last ran this in 2015, which I recall as dry-ish, though even in the driest conditions the low-lying field at mile 4.5 or…
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Pett
It’s a pretty, harmless name, isn’t it? Pett suggests a run that’s furry, that lies on your lap purring or snoring, one that you could teach tricks to, if you had the patience. The Pett cross country race, on 11th…