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Tom Roper
Seaford, Sussex
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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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Two weeks to go
It may be a little late, but I’ve started to pack more runs into my week. This week consisted of: Monday’s track night, with Seaford Striders, at the Lewes Leisure Centre track. After a warm-up, our group ran 300m with... Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Three weeks to go: mud, mud and more mud
The Brighton Half is now three weeks away. This week’s excursions consisted of: A Seaford Striders run on Wednesday; I took my group for a five mile run round the second half of the winter route. Once again, they outpaced... Continue reading
Posted Feb 4, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Four weeks to go: a milestone
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There are now four weeks to go till the Brighton Half. From this moment forward, apart from a small sherry when Mrs R and I watch University Challenge tomorrow, no alcoholic drink will pass my lips until I cross the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Five weeks to go
After a Wednesday night with the Striders, when I once again fed the insatiable appetite of my group for interval training, and a Peacehaven parkrun, the most significant run of the week was today’s, a ten miler to Bo Peep... Continue reading
Posted Jan 21, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Six weeks to go
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It was not a bad week, all things considered. I recorded a respectable 18 miles, led a hard intervals session with the Seaford Striders on Wednesday, ran a solitary dark evening run round Seaford on Friday, and then on Sunday... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Festina lente
Slow progress, but progress nevertheless. In the first week of 2018 I ran the Seaford Striders New Year’s Day run, about 5k on the seafront, some short runs to and from a gym in Brighton where I went for a... Continue reading
Posted Jan 10, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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A year's running: 2017, and on to 2018
I’m back from the Seaford Striders New Year’s Day run, in one piece, although I hadn't run for ten days. It’s time to sum up 2017 and look forward to 2018. In 2017 I ran 559 miles. For comparison, in... Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2018 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Struck down by man flu
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it seemed such a good plan. With nearly two whole weeks off for Christmas and the New Year, I would run most days, and start to build distance and stamina, with longer runs that it’s hard to fit in when... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2017 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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First week of training for the 2018 Brighton half
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Training officially began for next year’s Brighton half marathon last Monday. The week was not a typical week, though, so rather than follow the programme, whose demands are in any case very modest in the first of sixteen weeks, I... Continue reading
Posted Nov 13, 2017 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Couch to 5k, and an anniversary
Tonight the second Seaford Striders Couch to 5k completed the programme, the ninth week, with 30 minutes of non-stop running. It was a chilly night, and my group, who self-identify as medium, set a cracking pace. We finished back at... Continue reading
Posted Nov 8, 2017 at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Ah, in fact it's 5th equal with Lyme Park, each at 411 ft elevation.
Toggle Commented Oct 3, 2017 on On not running the Lewes Downland Ten, and a Bevendean Down parkrun record at Tom Roper's Running Training
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Glad you enjoyed the Downland Ten. It is a glorious race. I hope to be back next year. Thanks for the tip; I should very much like to do that parkrun. Do you take your figures from https://jegmar.com/stats-hq/fastest-races/parkrun/? According to that, Bevendean Down has crept into 5th place
Toggle Commented Oct 2, 2017 on On not running the Lewes Downland Ten, and a Bevendean Down parkrun record at Tom Roper's Running Training
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