blog about history & culture of running, swimming & great outdoors ( other sports) go-feet.blogspot.co.uk/ Kent AC/SE London parkruns/COYHatters.
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21 Oct 2024
Early 1960s pictures of Totternhoe FC @Tottsfc I believe, featuring my dad Dugald Orr (1935-1997)
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2 Jan 2024
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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16 Sep 2023
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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14 Jun 2023
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/…
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28 Aug 2022
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
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9 May 2022
Divers Cove, Godstone. Feels like face in the water summer swimming has arrived
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2 May 2022
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…
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30 Apr 2022
Great day out in the sun @BexleyAC1 at Erith, helping out with @KentAthClub at the Kent Youth Athletics League, so much enthusiasm and talent
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26 Apr 2022
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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4 Mar 2022
Quick dip in the Thames at Streatley followed by twilight swim at Thames Lido in Reading
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31 Jul 2021
Ultimate accolade for @Lixsanyee Alex Yee - a shout out from @gillespeterson!
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27 Jul 2021
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
27 Jul 2021
Here's @Lixsanyee out front @hillyfdsparkrun (2014?), the rest of us not far behind as race had only just started!
25 Jul 2021
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
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25 Jul 2021
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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3 Jul 2021
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…
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18 Jun 2021
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]
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18 Jun 2021
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
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18 Jun 2021
Sadly his own considerable sporting talents were overlooked and he never had to make the choice about which team to play for, though it would not have been in doubt. But his own kids know that playing for Scotland remains the preferred option- I mean their grandad’s from Islay!
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