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Tom Roper
Seaford, Sussex
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I’ve never read Don Quixote. Now might be the time to put that right. There’s some compensations in the current state though, for example the goats of Llandudno would still be on the `Great Orme https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/31/llandudno-goats-herd-running-riot-coronavirus-lockdown
For the sake of argument
There was an argument about keeping libraries open. Kids who didn’t have computers at home could do their schoolwork. People could use the computers to look for jobs or apply for unemployment. This led to arguments about putting library workers at risk. And whether you could apply for unempl...
Shane Godbolt, 1943-2019
Posted Jan 29, 2020 at Tom Roper's Weblog
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Annual running totals: distance and elevation, 2005 to 2019
Posted Dec 31, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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2019 in running: worse things happen at sea
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
Posted Sep 3, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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The Twiathlon, 2019
Posted Jun 3, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Seaford Half Marathon: the original, beware imitations
Posted May 26, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Mid-Sussex Marathon Weekend
Posted May 6, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Text Mining and Machine Learning in Systematic Reviews
Posted Apr 25, 2019 at Tom Roper's Weblog
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A set-back
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
Posted Apr 4, 2019 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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The running year: 2018
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
Posted Oct 30, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Two weeks (or less) to Beachy
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
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)
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.
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 so is always boggy. Today it, and the ploughed field before it, were bottom...
Lewes 10k
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
Posted Feb 25, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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