My running web pages are now at
www.northeastraces.com.
Please update any bookmark/favorite to link to this new site.
Thanks.
This page is retained because it has stuff about my early
running days.
Above, there are three rows of links:
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The first row has links to three web pages
containing lists of races
(mainly in North East England).
There is
a list of future races,
a list of updates to the future races page,
and a list of previous races.
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The next row has
a link to a page giving suggestions
about how to be successful in running,
a link to a page giving a list of those
web pages that link to my running pages,
a link to a page
where you can get
an XML document containing details of all the races,
and a link to a list of maps of some of the races.
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The final row has
lists of races I've completed
(in both date and pb orders),
and a link to my home page.
We swing ungirded hips,
And lightened are our eyes.
The rain is on our lips,
We do not run for prize.
We know not whom we trust
Nor witherward we fare,
But we run because we must
Through the great, wide air.
The waters of the seas
Are troubled as by storm.
The tempest strips the trees
And does not leave them warm.
Does the tearing tempest pause?
Do the tree-tops ask it why?
So we run without a cause
'Neath the big, bare sky.
The rain is on our lips,
We do not run for prize.
But the storm the water whips
And the wave howls to the skies.
The winds arise and strike it
And scatter it like sand,
And we run because we like it
Through the broad, bright land.
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
My obsession with road running began on 11th March 2001
when I began
training with 8 others from the
IT Service at the University of Durham.
We called ourselves
ITS Club 9.
We did our first race on 9th June 2001.
Since then until November 2004, I was racing almost every week.
By July 2003, I had done 100 races.
There's a web page describing
my 100th race.
In November 2004, I entered my 149th race,
the 2004 Marabana,
a half marathon in Havana, Cuba.
Even though I developed a knee injury after 2K,
the race went well.
However, the problem with the knee did not go away,
and for three years I didn't train/race.
However, I've recently started
training
and
racing
again.
In March 2005, after having been in Durham for 19 years, I moved to Oxford.
Here is a link to a web page
describing
my enjoyment of running in North East England
and my thanks to those involved.
Even though I've been in Oxford for many years,
I am still maintaining these web pages.
Their new home is:
www.northeastraces.com.
The photo on the right was taken at about 0640hrs
before the start of the 2004 Marabana
(a half marathon in Havana, Cuba).
Thanks to
John Dix
(of
Handsworth Roadhogs)
for the photo.
I have a web page containing
photos I took of the competitors of the 2003 Kielder Wild
Race.
In my early days of running, I came across Sorley's poem
given on the right.
It sums up my attitude to running,
especially the bits about the countryside and the weather.
I like it when people take photos of me running in races,
but the photos don't usually show me with elegance!
Here are some of these photos:
Here are some more photos:
