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Tom Roper
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A further thought: for anyone in the NHS the browser based alternatives to GR that depend on Firefox, Chrome or Safari are off-limits to us, condemned as we are to antiquated versions of IE
Commented Mar 18, 2013 on The demise of Google Reader: On the path to driverless information retrieval at Digital scholarship blog
The demise of Google Reader: On the path to driverless information retrieval
On Wednesday, Google announced that a range of their services are to be shut down. Google Reader – once the best and easiest-to-use RSS reader (Rich Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication)) on the Web – is to be retired on the 1st of July. On the official Google Reader Blog, Alan Green, Soft...
Not sure I agree that RSS is outmoded as a filtering method; there are times when I do need to see a feed in its entirety, not just the bits that tickled the fancy of my Twitter coterie.
And is Reeder a viable alternative? As I understand it, it works on top of Google Reader.
Commented Mar 16, 2013 on The demise of Google Reader: On the path to driverless information retrieval at Digital scholarship blog
The demise of Google Reader: On the path to driverless information retrieval
On Wednesday, Google announced that a range of their services are to be shut down. Google Reader – once the best and easiest-to-use RSS reader (Rich Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication)) on the Web – is to be retired on the 1st of July. On the official Google Reader Blog, Alan Green, Soft...
Reconsidering
It seems to be the way. Marathon training starts optimistically and then things go wrong. Having lost a little time with a frozen shoulder, it was hard to get back into the routine of running five times a week and... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Running with Oblomov
So tired. Is old age catching up with me? A planned twelve mile run on Sunday that in fact ended up as a half-marathon (13.1 miles) left me shattered. This morning I should have been up with the lark and... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Haydock, Ascot and Wincanton
I haven't posted my selections for a while, so to make up for it I go for six today, with less than a month to go till Cheltenham. I can't see Captain Chris being beaten in the big race, the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 16, 2013 at Tom Roper's Weblog
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Ten cold, muddy miles
It's the end of the fourth week, therefore the first quarter, of marathon training. After a good start to the week, I felt a little peculiar on Thursday and missed a four miler; furthermore, on Saturday, which should have been... Continue reading
Posted Feb 10, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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There was one in particular who provoked me. He was either dancing in and out of the traffic, or molesting adjacent women runners, sporting enormous brightly-coloured ear-pieces. I almost wished he would fall under the tyres of a bus.
Has Miss Street-Porter recorded Beowulf? If so, I must seek it out.
I have volunteered, along with several of my fellow Striders, to marshal at Brighton, so will look forward to cheering you on. I believe they are giving us a point all to ourselves.
Commented Feb 5, 2013 on Chichester 10k: giving my Bottom nightly at Tom Roper's Running Training
Chichester 10k: giving my Bottom nightly
The first race of 2013, and the first of the twenty that comprise the Sussex Grand Prix, is the Chichester Priory 10k. I had never run it before and, as it is my intention to enter such races this year, and as my marathon training programme called for a 10k round about this time of year, I enter...
Chichester 10k: giving my Bottom nightly
The first race of 2013, and the first of the twenty that comprise the Sussex Grand Prix, is the Chichester Priory 10k. I had never run it before and, as it is my intention to enter such races this year,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 4, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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The end
I finished Janathon with three miles. It brings me to a total of 81 miles of running in the month. I was delighted to see abradypus and iliketocount crash through the 200 mile barrier, and am still awestruck by silvermetalfox's... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the thirtieth
I took today as leave, not least so I could enjoy a speed session in daylight. It consisted of three one mile legs, with a mile warm-up and cool-down at either end, and quarter of a mile recoveries. I rather... Continue reading
Posted Jan 30, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the twenty ninth
Up early and out into wind and rain for four and a bit miles. It wasn't cold, but hard work in the wind and I see from my average speed that though I was on road, I was slow. The... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the twenty eighth
Posted Jan 28, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Thank you, and I am amazed and impressed to see your monthly total, 216, and fourth place in the running table
Commented Jan 28, 2013 on Janathon the twenty-seventh and the end of week two, marathon training at Tom Roper's Running Training
Janathon the twenty-seventh and the end of week two, marathon training
Seven miles today, and whenever I have to do seven miles, the fact that it is more or less exactly seven miles from home to the end of the east pier at Newhaven harbour and back impels me to choose that route. It was worth it: high seas, a stiff wind going, but behind me on the way back. There ...
Janathon the twenty-seventh and the end of week two, marathon training
Posted Jan 27, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the twenty-sixth
Today was going to be difficult. I planned to go to London and it was going to be hard to find time for a run. In fact, the railways were so disrupted both by planned engineering and by an unplanned... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the twenty-fifth: a short seaside run
Out in the evening for a quick run, two miles by the seaside. I had to be back quickly to meet a fellow Strider to talk about the Juniors page on the website. During the day at work, I came... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the twenty-fourth: evening run, seaside
I shall say nothing more about yesterday and would appreciate it if you would do the same. Today, by contrast, I had a decent four mile run in the evening. It was cold but the ground underfoot seemed safe. The... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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No running
I didn't run today, or anything else. I could plead the excuse of being stuck on the A27 last night. Instead I offer you last night's Night Waves in which Alan Rusbridger and Matthew Taylor discuss running, playing the piano... Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Day 22
I ran four miles this morning and spent five hours this evening in snow on the A27. I have nothing else to say Continue reading
Posted Jan 22, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Twenty one today
And I celebrated with a swim, twenty lengths of Seaford Head pool. Continue reading
Posted Jan 21, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Virgin snow on the twentieth day of Janathon
Six miles in the snow, agreeable, mostly, apart from the descent from Seaford Head which was somewhat tricky. Fresh snow makes for easy running, and is probably very good exercise. And thus ends the first week of marathon training. Miles... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the nineteenth: swimming
Back to the pool, for another Saturday morning session, with my ever-patient coach. Today's consisted of, if I can reconstruct it accurately: 150m front crawl 150m back crawl 100m front crawl arm drill (this requires me to put a pull-buoy... Continue reading
Posted Jan 19, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the eighteenth: waiting for snow
Up early, pills, inhaler, a drink and off out into the cold. There's a wind, south-easterly, colder than the north. Going one way along the front I'm into it, in the other direction it's behind me, I Ignore it. Ice... Continue reading
Posted Jan 18, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the seventeenth: men in tights
Posted Jan 17, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Janathon the sixteenth: over half way there
I ran three miles, as dictated by the programme, over Seaford Head. The sun had just risen and the light was as clear and bright as Switzerland, exactly the sort of light that must have lit Sweder and El Gordo's... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2013 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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