Owls Count

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My Run
I was running Mens Short this year. Due to child care arrangements I was going off in the mass start on first leg. I often struggle to get my pacing right in such situations and also struggle to get in contact with the map [...]

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My run
My run here can be summed up quite easily. I was not in the right frame of mind and did not push myself. I should have run a lot faster, but never really got going. My route shows that my navigation was reasonably fine.
I had two poor controls. At six I overshot [...]

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String Course
My Run
Like the sprint area, Leith Hill had also been used for the World Cup 2005 spectator races. I started at a good pace before missing control 4 and losing two minutes. For the next few controls I did not push myself and lost some time. I then made a mistake at 8, overshooting [...]

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String Course and Tempo
Sprint Prizegiving: 1 - 2 - 3
My Run
At the World Cup spectator races, in 2005, I had a really good run around the University of Surrey and I was hoping for [...]

Terry Pratchett is one of the best selling UK authors. During my teenage years his books were some of the few I read. Recently he announced that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Recently he pledged $1 million to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust.
In response to this pledge a group of fans have created the site Match [...]

I have lived in Reading for five and a half years and often taken some notice of the local half marathon, but not too much. Last year, while in China (IIRC), I was talking with one of my colleagues and we came to the idea of running this year.