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Early 1960s pictures of Totternhoe FC @Tottsfc I believe, featuring my dad Dugald Orr (1935-1997)
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Big crowd of swimmers seeing in 2024 with a New Year's Day swim @BeckenhamPark, cold but certainly woke me up
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Out today to mark our club's 125th anniversary - 'Kent AC: a short history in places' by Neil Gordon-Orr tells our story through many of the places in South East London where we have run, jumped and partied: archive.org/details/kent-ath…
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More than 400 people turned out on Saturday to celebrate @hillyfdsparkrun 500th event and to thank event director Stephen Robson who is standing down from the role transpont.blogspot.com/2023/…
Enjoyed my visit yesterday to @theglenparkrun in Cork - the nearest parkrun to the city centre go-feet.blogspot.com/2022/08…
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New book! ‘Parkrun: An Organised Running Revolution’- this is the first book to take an in-depth, evidence-based look at parkrun - the free, weekly, timed 5km run on a Saturday morning - and to explore the reasons for its astonishing global success tinyurl.com/2p9b7rje
Great swim today @SOLDoutdoors Thames Young Mariners lake at Ham (near Richmond). 500m loop, easy walk in entry to lake, friendly people, lovely location, £5 entry surreyoutdoorlearning.uk/the…
Great day out in the sun @BexleyAC1 at Erith, helping out with @KentAthClub at the Kent Youth Athletics League, so much enthusiasm and talent
After reading @_katherine_may_ The Electricity of Every Living Thing was inspired to go for a walk in Blean wood (near Whitstable)- went to uni down the road but never ventured in, which is how I got to my 50s without knowing what a wood anemone was
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Ultimate accolade for @Lixsanyee Alex Yee - a shout out from @gillespeterson!
Oh no getting to that posh sports bit of the Olympics between the swimming & the athletics, have embraced rowing but draw the line at gee gees
🔹 Rowing
🔸 Swimming
🔹 Dressage
🔸 Diving
Here's what's coming up on day five in Tokyo and who's in line for the 23 medals on offer.
#Tokyo2020 #bbcolympics
Here's @Lixsanyee out front @hillyfdsparkrun (2014?), the rest of us not far behind as race had only just started!
Congratulations to @Lixsanyee, Lewisham lad, Hilly Fields parkrunner, Kent AC athlete and now, Olympic Silver medalist. Well done Alex. We’re all so proud of you. @parkrunuk @teamgb #OlympicTriathlon
Great to be back out there @hillyfdsparkrun yesterday
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With Brockley's Alex Yee in triathlon tonight, putting together list of previous Lewisham Olympians, so far: Daryll Phillips, also in Tokyo squad, won bronze in 4x100m went to Prendergast Hilly Fields; James Ellington 200m 2012 & 2016; Conrad Williams 400m in 2012 @cwilliams400
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Save river swimming at Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge from Kings College ban - if an army of “flower-crowned laughing swimmers” is needed to defy this, count us in waterandwild.blogspot.com/20…
Long ago an English-born child went to Wembley, he was so small that his dad bought a wooden stool so he could stand on the terrace and see the game. His Scottish dad said you could always support England then one of us would definitely win. No way, it has to be Scotland [thread]
England won 5-1 but he never wavered then or since in supporting Scotland. Will that grown up child be heading for more disappointment this very evening? Or maybe not