Simon Branford

Simon I am a thirty-something researcher in the Evolutionary Biology Group, which is in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading.

I am the website coordinator for Sirens, which is a conference, part scholarly examination and part networking retreat, dedicated to women in fantasy literature. Sirens is organised by Narrate Conferences.

I like to spend time running, orienteering, and reading.

This blog is powered by WordPress, using a theme that I designed myself. The owls-count.net domain is hosted by Dynamiconomy.

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Orienteering April 2013

Friday 24th May 2013 | Orienteering, Races | No Comments

In April I went orienteering six times. The map images link to a copy of the course with my route taken from my GPS. JK Relays I was running first leg on a Men’s Short team. I had a decent run, managing to keep a decent pace round even though I was suffering from a cold. Training at Mexico Towans A short training run around the sand dunes. St Ives Urban I made a mess … [Read the rest]

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