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MARCH 2010 |
| March 13th: Results are in for
the final winter handicap race, well done to Jason Cherriman for taking the
honours in the 10k .... |
| March 8th: Eastbourne Half
results are now available |
| March 7th: Thanet 20 results
are now available |
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FEBRUARY 2010 |
| February 28th: Tunbridge
Wells and Brighton Half marathon
results are available ... |
| February 17th: Results are
available for the Sidcup 10 ... |
| February 10th: Results are
available for the latest 10k handicap race .... |
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JANUARY 2010 |
| January 31st: Canterbury 10
results are now available and I have now updated the
kit page with our latest ranges ..... |
| January 24th: The latest Grand Prix
results are available
... |
January 17th: Results for the
Dartford Ten are available .... The Dates have been agreed for our
Pre-London Marathon Training runs - the 20/22 miler will be on March 28th a
9am departure from the buff and the Westerham 17 miler on the 11 April a
9.30 am departure from the Grasshopper Pub Car Park 1 mile west of Westerham
on the A25 ...
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| January 9th: BREAKING NEWS: DUE TO THE SEVERE ICE AND SNOW THIS
TUESDAY'S HANDICAP RACE HAS REGRETTABLY BEEN CANCELLED. ALTHOUGH IT MAY
STILL BE POSSIBLE TO HAVE A RUN, RUNNING AGAINST THE CLOCK WONT BE SAFE ... |
January 4th: The ORR vidi printer has been very busy and results
are now available for the Knacker
Cracker 10k, the End of Year 10k
and the Tadworth 10 ...
Are you going to be fundraising for charity this year ? Let me
know if you are and I will add your details onto our
Fundraising page ... Likewise you can
sponsor your fellow ORR's through via our
Fundraising page including your very own webmaster who will be competing
in his first marathon next April .... |
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DECEMBER 2009 |
| December 30th: What better way to shake off the excesses of the festive season and
kick of the New Year in style than by joining the annual New Years Day
run. It will start from John Mackay’s house 31 Wilmington Avenue,
Orpington, BR6 9BJ at 1.00pm. On offer are three options –
A long very steady cross country run to be lead by Chris Marshall that
aims to be back before it gets too dark.
A shorter off road run of about 7 miles lead by John, or
A five mile cross country walk lead by Elaine. All will finish with the offer of tea and cakes to recuperate. |
December 19th: Tomorrow is our Mince Pie Run meet at the High Elms
 car
park at 10am sharp for a cross country run and carol singing afterwards, fancy
dress is optional .... |
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December 9th: Results are now
available for the December 10k Handicap, £44 pounds was raised on the night for
our nominated charity the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign ... |
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December 6th: Results are available for the
Swanley Christmas Caper and I
have updated the Yellow Shirts Calendar up until July
2010 .... |
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NOVEMBER 2009 |
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November 29th: Results are available for the
Beckenham Trail 10k and the
Crowborough 10k Congratulations to Steve
Wherle for being the fastest over 60 runner at the Beckenham Trail 10k... |
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November 15th: Brighton 10k results
are now available, well done to Dave Burtonshaw for securing another 10k PB,
well done sir ... |
November 11th: Don't forget that next Tuesday at 9pm is our AGM at the
Greenwood Centre in Green Street Green High Street. This is your one big chance
to discuss how your wonderful club is run, plus there will be tea and cake and
much more importantly our London Marathon Draw ....
Results are available for the November Handicap
race .... |
November 8th: This Tuesday is the first of our Winter 10k Handicap races,
don't forget your £1 entrance fee and good luck everybody .... |
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November 5th: Wilmington 10k
Results are now available, apologies for the delays in publishing these the
organisers had technical problems ... |
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OCTOBER 2009 |
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October 31st: STOP PRESS - Results are
available for today's mob match, huge congratulations to us for retaining our
title and a big thanks to our friends at New Eltham Joggers and Petts Wood
Runners ... |
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October 26th: Beachy Head marathon
results are available ... |
October 19th: Results are available for the
Croydon 10k,
Maidstone Half and the
Cardiff Half. Well done to Michael Bennett
and Dave Burtonshaw for setting PB's at the Maidstone Half Marathon and your web
master for knocking 6 minutes off his Season's Best time at the Cardiff Half
Marathon ...
We are hosting a MOB MATCH on SUNDAY 1st NOVEMBER at 11AM,
the start and finish is at the OLD HILL RECREATION GROUND behind the
ROSE AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE. Please come along and help us to retain our
title ...
We are also looking for people who would be interested in being marshalls, if
you are interested in being a marshall please let
Sheila know
.... |
October 11th: Results are available for the
Petts Wood 10k - huge congratulations to our men taking first place ...
Well done to Zoe Wright on completing her first Half Marathon - the
Royal Parks Half marathon and
finally I have also updated the results for this years
Dulwich 10k |
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October 6th: Results are available for the
Sittingbourne 10 ... |
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SEPTEMBER 2009 |
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September 27th: Results are available for the
Run to the Beat Half Marathon ... |
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September 20th: Results are available for the
Great North Run, and well done to
Michael, George and Jerry in the London to Brighton trail run an awesome
achievement .... |
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September 13th: Eridge 10 results are
now available ... |
September 7th: Results are available for
Dry Hill 10 and the Kent
Coastal Half Marathon ....
Following on from Zoe's successful run at the Dry Hill 10 she is now going to be
competing in this year's Royal Park's Half Marathon raising much needed funds
for Cancer Research UK. Why not visit the personal
fundraising page and sponsor her ....
We are looking for 6 men and 4 women to take part in this year's Will Bolton
Memorial at Sparrows Den on Saturday 19th September, contact
Betty
for more information and to express your interest in competing ...
Our young business entrepreneurs - Lucy Miller (pictured here) and Louise Whyte
have both been very busy, click here to
find out about Lucy's personal training service and Louise's Penelope Fitstop |
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AUGUST 2009 |
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August 28th: Full results
are now available for the Laces Mob Match |
August 20th: Congratulations to everyone who helped to retain the laces
cup, a job well done...
I have updated the Yellow Shirts Calendar to include
events up to the of December ....
An extra event has been added to our Hectic Social Calendar an opportunity to go
to a recording of Clive Anderson's Radio 2 show "Chat Room" on Wednesday 14th
October 2009 at 7.15pm in Central London. Have a look at our
Social page for more information ....
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August 6th: Check out our Mob Matches web
page for details of the Laces Mob match on the 18th AUGUST 7.45PM at the
WILLETT RECREATION GROUND in PETTS WOOD. This is our opportunity
to do battle with Petts Wood Runners and keep hold of the very precious Laces
cup. Hopefully as many of you as possible will be able to make it.
Not sure where the Willett Recreation ground is?? check out the
map .....
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JULY 2009 |
July 24th: Check out Nick's social page for
details of an upcoming talk from a Lucozade Specialist, a talk about Sports
Massage and some details about this years Christmas panto ...
The date for this years mob match against Petts Wood Runners has been agreed as
August 18th at 8pm, look out for more details ...
Don't forget about Paul O'Grady's Saturday
morning speed sessions and remember that the session's are open to anybody
that wishes to improve and not just the elite ....
Your webmaster is going on holiday for 10 days in Austria, so there won't be any
updates on the website for a while, so look out for any important emails from
Michael and don't forget to log onto our
chat forum
for any important messages ...
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July 19th: Results from the Dartford
Half Marathon are now available .... |
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July 7th: Bewl 15 results are available ... |
results are available ...
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JUNE 2009 |
June 29th: Latest Grand Prix
results are available ... |
June 21st: Provisional Results and
photo's are now
 available
for the 2k Junior and Senior races and the 10k. Congratulations to everybody
that took part today and a huge thanks to all of our wonderful volunteers ..... |
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June 18th: The Orpington 10k is now FULL
and their will be
NO ENTRIES on the day for the
10k. Here is
the list of the
501 competitors taking
part in
this year's
race ... |
June 15th: IMPORTANT NOTICE - Entries are now
closed for the 10k race on Sunday with no late entries on the day. However there
are still places available in the school 2k run's and the fun run with late
entries available on the day. Click here to
register for the 2k school run's and the fun run ...
Here is the list of entrants for this year's
Orpington Races on Sunday 21st June |
June 14th: Results are in for the
Bluewater 10k ...
363 runners have now registered for the Orpington 10k at this years Orpington
Races on Sunday 21st June including multiple winner Peter Tucker of Blackheath
and Bromley Harriers, places are going very fast so
signup today ....
Here is the current entrants list ....
Eric Enock is cycling from London to Paris on July 22nd a seriously tough
challenge. Check out Eric's fundraising page on our
Personal Fundraising Page ...
If you fancy something different Mike Abousselam has some important information
to share with us about Boot Camp Training
sessions at Shortlands Park and Belly Dancing!!
This Tuesday is the 2nd of our trilogy of Summer Trail Runs - the Chevening Run.
Departure times are as follows :-Meet promptly at 7.30pm at the buff
for the full distance circa 11 miles or if you fancy a shorter Chevening Run of
approximately 4 - 5 miles then meet at the end of Pound Lane at the junction of
Knockholt Main Road at 8pm ...
Chris Marshall's "long group" are also planning a 12 miler departing from the
buff at 8pm which may be heading towards Chevening ....
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June 8th: This Tuesday is the first of our Trilogy of Summer Trail runs -
the Nash
Circular Run departing at 8pm from the lamppost with the normal shorter
options as well ..... |
June 7th: We now have 247 runners for
the
10k race at this years Orpington Races on Sunday 21st June, we are limited
to 500 runners so don't delay and signup
today ....
Here is an updated list of this years confirmed
runners ....
From this Tuesday night our Membership Secretary - Paula Ferguson will be
running a beginners group running for 10 weeks until Tuesday 11th August. Click
here for more information ....
Results are available for the Beckenham 10k
and the Eltham Park 5 and I
hope you all enjoyed the post race picnic in Eltham Palace Park ....
Don't forget to have a look at Lucy Miller's
Sports Nutrition web page and the Ask Lucy email service, feel free to ask
her about anything nutrition related ....
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June 1st: The Grand Prix page has been updated with the results of the
opening 2 events of the 2009/10 Season
Good luck with the Beckenham 10k and Eltham 5 on the 7th June and the picnic in
Eltham Palace Park...
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MAY 2009 |
May 27th: 179 runners have now
registered
for the Orpington 10k on Sunday 21st June, click
here for details of how to enter the Orpington Races and
here is the current list of runners ....
Results are available for the BUPA London 10k
and the Canterbury Half Marathon ...
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May 24th: Results are available for the
Myra Garrett 10k ...
We currently have 135 runners registered for the Orpington 10k on
Sunday 21st June, click here for details of
how to enter or use the
Runners World Website ...
Click here for a current list of runners ... |
May 11th: The vidi printer has been very busy and Results are available
for the Sevenoaks Seven,
Three Forts Marathon,
Ted Pepper 10k and
Whitstable 10k
Check out the Social page for a brief review of our
annual bash and don't forget the High Elms walk on Sunday 17th May at 2pm .... |
May 3rd: So far 55 runners have registered for the Orpington 10k
on Sunday 21st June. Click here to register
or register online on at the
Runners World website ....
The final results are available for the
2008/09 Grand Prix Series, well done to everyone who has taken part and many
thinks to Peter for all his hard work compiling the results ....
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APRIL
2009 |
Apr 29th: We still have 15 spare tickets for this Saturday's Annual
Awards
 Party
in the beautiful surroundings of High Elms, contact Nick directly if you are
interested in going ..
For the early birds there will be a quiz at 7, food at 8.15, the awards at 9 and
then you can dance the night away until midnight .... |
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Apr 27th: Don't forget that tomorrow is the Last Tuesday of the Month and
a very interesting discussion on Hydration will be taking place in the Buff
after tomorrow night's runs .... |
Apr 26th: Results are available for the
London Marathon many congratulations to
the 50 finishers,
let me
know if I have missed you out ....
You can also upload your images of the day onto our
photo site ....
Don't forget that you can email our
Pulse Editor with any stories that you might like to share with your fellow
road runners..... |
Apr 22nd: IMPORTANT LONDON
MARATHON INFORMATION - If you are running
in the London Marathon then join the
07:24
train service from Orpington Station to meet up with your fellow ORR's ...
After the race the ORR baggage handlers will be on the first three
GREEN lorries in the Mall be
sure to give them a wave ...
The post marathon celebration will be held at the Royal Oak Public House in
Green Street Green, from 7pm. The pub has kindly agreed to lay on some free
table snacks, but are also offering a special two meals for £10 deal with those
with healthier appetites ...
Also check out the
latest weather forecast for Sunday and finally the very best of luck to
everyone competing in the race ....
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Apr 19th: Results are available for the
Darenth 10k .... |
Apr 10th: Happy Easter to all of my fellow
 ORR's.
I have updated the Personal Fundraising page
again - check it out, also take a look at Nicks social
page - for an update on this year's Annual Dinner Dance, a family picnic in
Eltham Palace Park and a guided tour of High Elms .... |
Apr 5th: Results are available for the
Paddock Wood Half Marathon and the Worthing Twenty ....
There are only 11 tickets left for the Annual Dinner and Dance, so if you have not already booked your place, please contact Nick directly to reserve your place, and don't forget that you have until Easter to make your nominations |
Apr 4th: Entries are available for the Orpington Races including 2k
Senior and Junior School races and our legendary 10k race on Sunday 21st June,
to avoid disappointment sign up today !!
Have a look at the Orpington 10k web page or
the Runners World Website |
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MARCH 2009 |
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Mar 30th: The Hillcrest 10k on Sunday 17th May has been added to the
Yellow Shirts Calendar .... |
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Mar 15th: Results are available for the
Hastings Half Marathon, some very important information about the
Annual Dinner and Dance and also don't forget
that you can sponsor your running friends through the
Fundraising page ... |
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Mar 11th: Results are available for the last of this year's winter
handicap series |
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Mar 4th: Results are available for the
Eastbourne Half Marathon and the
Steyning Stinger |
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Mar 1st: Results are available for the
Greenwich Meridian 10k and the Thanet 20 |
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FEBRUARY 2009 |
Feb 22nd: I have published the information used in
Steve Wehrle's Marathon Talk and check out
Ashley's Marathon File for some details of
Thursday night marathon training runs.
Results are also available for the Brighton
Half Marathon |
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Feb 16th: Peter "stats" Amos has been busy again and the
Grand Prix Standings have been updated
again and Nigel's 100th Marathon interview is
available for your viewing ... |
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Feb 15th: Results are available for the
Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon |
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Feb 11th: Latest Handicap results are
available ... |
Feb 8th: IMPORTANT HANDICAP MESSAGE The February Handicap is
due next Tuesday 10 February and at the moment the course is clear of snow.
However, the forecast for Monday night and Tuesday is for more heavy snow. If
there is lying snow on Tuesday, we will postpone the Handicap to the following
Tuesday 17 Feb.
Nick's Social page has been updated with some
exciting dining offers at the Royal Oak and lots more ...
Results are available for the Sidcup 10
....
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Feb 5th: I have created the Personal
Fundraising page for 2009,
email me
if you would like me to include your details |
Feb 1st: The Yellow Shirts Calendar has been
updated with the dates of our two Pre-London Marathon Runs, the Westerham 17
miler is going to take place on March 29th and the 22 miler on April 5th. Keep
checking the web site for more information ....
Nick's social page has been updated to include details
on how to watch the ORR 20th Anniversary DVD on-line .... |
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JANUARY 2009 |
Jan 27th: Yes it's that time of year folks, it's membership renewal time,
if you haven't already paid your membership subs for this year don't forget it's
£10 a year for
 first
claim members and £5 for second claim members. Check out the
Frequently Asked Questions section of the website
for payment details and have a look at all of the fantastic
benefits that you can be entitled to as
well
Paula is also going to be in the Buff after tonight's run if you would like to
pay her directly ... |
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Jan 25th: Results are available for the
Canterbury 10, well done to Mark and Annette ... |
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Jan 21st: The Grand Prix page has
been updated with the latest standings following on from the Dartford 10 ... |
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Jan 20th: Results are available for the
Dartford 10 ... |
Jan 14th: Results are available for last nights 10k Handicap ...
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Jan 10th: Do you fancy going to the Little Shop of Horrors launch party
at Churchill Theatre on Thursday 15th January at 6.30pm , check out the
Social Page...
I have started to upload parts of the ORR 20th Anniversary DVD onto the internet
check out the Video page and keep checking back as
more files are uploaded ....
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Jan 6th: Nick's social page has been updated
again, check it out .... |
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Jan 2nd: Results are available for the
Knacker Cracker 10k, well done Mark and
Dave... |
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DECEMBER 2008 |
Dec 23rd: Our Charity of the year for 2009 is the
Muscular
Dystrophy Campaign. Thank you to everyone who has helped throughout the year
to raise £2045.32 for the
Bromley Autistic Trust. Check out the ORR
Official Charities page for more details ...
The Yellow Shirts Calendar has been updated with the
Penshurst 5 Cross Country race
on the 4th January and the
End of 08 10k at Harrietsham, kent |
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Dec 14th: Results for the Hastings
Marathon are now available, congratulations to everyone that took part in
this historic event |
Dec 10th: 10k Handicap results are
now online how did you get on ...
Nick's social page has been updated to include some
exciting events in December, some more discount vouchers and some information
about discount holidays ... |
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Dec 8th: Another Charity has been added to the
ORR Official Charities Page,
SportsAid ... |
Dec 7th: Results are available for the
Swanley Christmas Caper. Also
entries are now open for three of our Grand Prix Events, the
Dartford Ten
on 18th January, the
Tunbridge Wells
Half Marathon on 15th February and the
Hastings Half Marathon on 15th
March so sign up early to avoid disappointment ...
This Tuesday night is the second race in our
winter Handicap series so don't forget your £1 entrance fee and good luck to
everybody .... |
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Dec 4th: Crowborough 10k results
are available |
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Dec 3rd: The ORR Official Charities
page has been updated with the details of another potential charity the
Marfan Trust |
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NOVEMBER 2008 |
Nov 30th: A huge thank you to all the dinners that Attended ORR Dining
Around the World Part One on Wednesday night. Helen Amos has chosen Spanish for
ORR Dining Around Part Two so keep checking Nick's social
page for more info ...
Don't forget that anyone can email me with what their group did a Tuesday night,
just drop me an
email
including which group you were in and what you got up to ... |
Nov 25th: Nick's social
page has been updated again to include another discount voucher
for 40% of wine and Champagne, just what you need to get that party
started.
The ORR Official Charities page has been
updated to include the details of potential charities for our Charity of the
Year 2009. Potential charities for next year are Muscular Dystrophy Campaign,
The Icare Centre in Green St. Green and the Orpington Gateway Club
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Nov 21st: A big thank you to every who attended the clubs AGM on Tuesday
night and vey well done to Collette Gebbett, Rachel Bailey, Shelia Sherman, Eric
Enock, Danny McLaughlin, Karen Kent and Lauren Downie for winning places in the
London Marathon ... Thank you to John for all of his fantastic work as
chairman over the last 4 years and hello to Jan Lenton our new chairman ..
Also Dave King is looking for volunteers to Marshall at
the 100 Marathon Club AGM Marathon at Norman Park on January 4th 2009. Click
here if
you are interested in volunteering |
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Nov 17th: DON'T FORGET about the AGM tomorrow night 9pm at the Greenwood
Centre, Green Street Green. Also Nick's social page
has been updated again to now include some 2 for 1 restaurant vouchers yummy ... |
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Nov 16th: Results of the Brighton 10k
are in check them out ... |
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Nov 12th: Results of the 1st 10k Handicap
race are live, how did you get on ... |
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Nov 11th: The Crowborough
10k has been added to Yellow Shirts Calendar |
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Nov 10th: The results of the Bexhill Half
Marathon are in well done to Dave, Alison and Karen ... |
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Nov 9th: The Yellow Shirts Calendar has now been
updated to include the dates of this years 10k Handicap series and the AGM ... |
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Nov 8th: Don't forget that its the first of our Winter 10k Handicap races
(with a 5 mile option) next Tuesday (Nov 11th). Click
here to see last years results and a
description of the route, but more importantly don't forget your £1 entrance fee
.... Also the date, time and venue have been agreed for this years AGM,
Tuesday 18th November 9pm, at the
Greenwood Centre, Green St Green, this is your chance to discuss the running
of the club and the highlights will include, the chairman's report and Nigel's
London Marathon draw ... |
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Nov 5th: Our Sports Nutrition page has
been updated check it out ... |
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Nov 1st: Nick's social page has now been
updated to include some more of our upcoming social events and I have also
created a page that is dedicated to Sports
Nutrition containing the information from Lucy's talk |
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OCTOBER 2008 |
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Oct 29th: Thank you to Lucy for her very informative and enjoyable talk
on Sports Nutrition on Tuesday night .... Results of the
Dublin marathon are now available
and I have been informed by Nick that there are only 10 tickets left for the
Cinderella Pantomime on Sunday 7th December at the Churchill theatre. Click
here to book your ticket
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Oct 26th: NEWSFLASH - Just to let everybody know Peter Amos and Simon
Clarke are
both safe and well after the terrible weather in Cumbria and are expecting to
arrive back in Orpington this afternoon ...
Results of the Beachy Head Marathon are
available well done to everybody that took part and especially Nigel Webb -
100 Marathons a fantastic achievement ... |
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Oct 23rd: Nick's Social page has now been
updated and the latest Grand Prix
standings are now available ... |
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Oct 20th: The results are now available for the
Maidstone and
Cardiff Half marathons ... |
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Oct 15th: The latest Grand Prix
results are now available and I have added two races onto the
Yellow Shirts Calendar the Bexhill Half Marathon on 9th November and the
Knacker Cracker 10k on 1st January - just what you need to cure that hangover !! |
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Oct 13th: Results of the Petts Wood 10k
are now available, how did you get on ... |
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Oct 8th. The Social page has now be updated to include all of the planned
events for the rest of this year and next spring as well, including the Annual
Dinner Dance. Click here to find out more |
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Oct 6th: I have updated the results pages for the
Dulwich 10k and 5k races the
Great North Run and the
Run To The Beat Half Marathon |
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Oct 1st: Have you ever fancied travelling back in time to the Swinging
60's for one evening. If the answer is yes then why not join your fellow ORR's
to watch a production of SHOUT! "The swinging 60's musical" at the Churchill
Theatre on Monday 13th October at 7.30pm. Click
here for information Also best of luck to any ORR's competing this Sunday
including your webmaster in either the Run To The Beat or Great North Run Half
Marathons. I have managed to find an
interactive map of the
Great North Run course that might prove to be useful |
