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Tom Roper
Seaford, Sussex
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Shane Godbolt, 1943-2019
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Shane and me at the launch of the North Thames Regional Documents Database Shane Godbolt died on 24th November 2019. I am not qualified to write a full obituary, but these are some memories. I first met her in the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2020 at Tom Roper's Weblog
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Annual running totals: distance and elevation, 2005 to 2019
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I went on to look at annual totals from 2005 onwards, to put this year in perspective. In particular, I found that 2019 was not the lowest distance I’ve ever managed: both 2013 and 2014 were worse. This is heartening. Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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2019 in running: worse things happen at sea
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The year started well: I fell from a wall while giving the Seaford Striders a pre-run briefing for their New Year’s Day run, breaking my arm. Before After Then at Easter I fell during the Seaford beach parkrun, while discussing... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Progress: weeks 5, 6 and 7, including a Cambridge run
Week 7 concluded this week, with a run in Lewes, through the Priory as members of Southover Bonfire Society prepared their fire site, then up Juggs Road. It was a beautiful sunny day after yesterday’s storms. When I’m doing greater... Continue reading
Posted Nov 3, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Out of action
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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.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 3, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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The Twiathlon, 2019
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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... Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Seaford Half Marathon: the original, beware imitations
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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.... Continue reading
Posted May 26, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Mid-Sussex Marathon Weekend
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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,... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Text Mining and Machine Learning in Systematic Reviews
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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... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2019 at Tom Roper's Weblog
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A set-back
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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... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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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... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Marshalling the Moyleman: 2019: gentlemen have told me they find it extremely invigorating
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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,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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The running year: 2018
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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... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Beachy Head: first marathon for five years, first Beachy for ten
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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... Continue reading
Posted Oct 30, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Two weeks (or less) to Beachy
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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.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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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... Continue reading
Posted Oct 8, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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In memoriam Humphrey, 2011-2018
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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.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2018 at Tom Roper's Weblog
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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 of... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2018 at Tom Roper's Weblog
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Harbour to Marina (and back): the 182 steps (though I'm told there are in fact 186)
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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.... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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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... Continue reading
Posted May 20, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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These things can't be rushed, you know. It will appear, soon.
Toggle Commented May 13, 2018 on Lewes 10k at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Lewes 10k
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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... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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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... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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The 2018 Brighton Half Marathon
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The 2018 Brighton half marathon was, I see, my fifth race here, though the route changes often. Seek not to understand the mind of the race planner, mortals. For this year, they sent us out to Ovingdean for the first... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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A week to go
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I ran thrice this week; I’m not sure this constitutes a taper, as though I scored fewer miles, they were all tough runs. On Wednesday it was a Striders run, though our numbers were depleted — something to do with... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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