Following my first attempt at competitive (well, timed anyway) running, the Marathon of the North in Sunderland in May, last weekend I ran in the Great North Run. This was described in Wikipedia as the world's largest half-marathon until a recent edit demoted it to second behind Göteborg. Still, it's big. I'd heard some of the… Continue reading The Great North Run
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Software Carpentry
Elsewhere on my tour of the north-east, I've been helping out this week at the Software Carpentry boot camp at Newcastle university. These events are aimed mostly at postgraduate research students who need to write software for research. They try to provide just enough training in real-world software development techniques to get people started with… Continue reading Software Carpentry
Phew!
I'm delighted to be able to say I completed the first Marathon of the North in Sunderland yesterday. I hinted at this in my previous post, but midweek before the race I was feeling terrible—I'd had colds and aches; my last training run on Thursday was stereotypically awful, with bad cramps and a sore right… Continue reading Phew!
The Breakfast Post 