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| All go at the REP Arun Swim 2021 |
A busy weekend of two events as things continue to open up slowly in a "specific and limited way" - with as many Covid Secure event logistics and plans as can be done to keep everyone as safe as possible - mostly from each other.
First up the REP Arun Swim - with free downloads direct from the gallery
http://sspimg.com/REP-Arun-Swim-2021-Gallery
and then the
Muscular Dystrophy Town and Gown Oxford 10k - with live free photos on the day using pic2go technology for everyone to share immediately ! www.pic2go.co.uk/register
and there's the backup gallery here: https://sspimg.com/Oxford-Town-and-Gown-10k-2021-Gallery
Here's a list of all the events so far this year with their free download galleries, and future events. If your next event isn't listed on it - then they need to sort themselves (or if you're a race director - yourself!) out !
Race galleries and Entry websites
If some of you are wondering what the big deal is about free photos - especially the metrics for sponsorship in terms of using them for brand awareness - we measured over half a million sponsor branded image views for an event with 2000 participants within 24 hours. Weather your sponsor is a charity or a commercial entity, or you're just trying to promote your future events - without a doubt more than 700,000 views of your brand or logo due to an event is going to make a difference to your business ! (just make sure you have a photo service that can genuinely measure it!). Get in touch if you think it would help your event...
And now for some pictures, sorry mostly swim ones this week... congratulations to Mick and the REP crew for running such a fantastic event yet again !
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| woken from her pre race slumber and stretch in the waiting area |
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| swimmers up their manicure game |
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| safe hands |
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| they're Tuff ! |
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| critiquing wetsuit colours |
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| The new Charlies Angels reboot |
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| my bets on her winning any sport she chooses |
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| classic wetsuit catalogue pose, excellent for sharing hand numbering too |
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| nobody was allowed his green hat |
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| yes, we have her numbers. Excellently displayed. |
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| she trod in *something* |
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| bunny fists, a new karate style |
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| the alternative catalogue pose for hand number sharing |
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| he really wanted to be playing cricket |
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| the long march ends here |
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| and off they went ! |
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| I think he's got a license to use it ? |
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| Raw Energy |
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| Confirming current size |
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| the racing wading look |
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| clean exit |
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| focussed |
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| not needing to look at your watch to stop it is a sign of coolness |
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| for the win |
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| shock and awe |
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| citizens arrests sometimes have to be done |
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| waving to the crowds |
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| double thumbs for being alive |
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| single thumbs are ok too |
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| taking it all in |
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| definitely happy to still be alive |
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| ok that's it I'm taking up portraiture |
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| styling it out with clear numbering |
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| it does get busy, keep your goggles on ! |
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| all is double good ! |
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| swims are fun with friends |
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| did he forgot he already took it off ? |
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| relief and joy |
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| Munch does swimming art |
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| In judo this throw is called ogoshi. It's a hip throw, here with a high shoulder hold. |
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| cheering to the balcony |
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| DID IT ! |
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| One for the records |
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| confident of victory |
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| Sharing and having sporting fun - what more do you want ? |
and here's a few from the Oxford
Town and Gown 10k - you should enter the
next one in Cambridge by the way, that'll have free live photos too - it's in October.
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| Running under the bridge of sighs |
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| happy running |
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| Tastes good |
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| power ranger on speed |
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| correct number wearing with a water pack |
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| running is a happy thing |
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| it's just joyous ! |
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| wave to the crowds (who were socially distanced) |
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| enjoying the park for yourself out front |
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| getting a bit of air |
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| flying on |
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| tap dance jazz smiles ! |
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| all going well |
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| double thumbs |
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| couldn't have been happier to see Paul if she tried |
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| all going well at 5k |
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| Views - you want views - how's this for views ? |
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| orange raging bull |
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| Happy now ? |
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| it's good run in the park to the last corner |
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| The start of it all |
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| socially distant start waves worked out well |
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| even spacing and good pacing |
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| For the win ! |
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| This years winner ! |
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| bounding in |
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| racing to the line |
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| I have history of comment on this sort of number wearing |
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| great team Tshirt |
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| it's a smile to the finish (might use that next time I'm ever marshalling) |
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| must.not.be.beaten. |
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| team running |
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| YES! |
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| ooh look my race pictures are here already ! |
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| I have the same problem with ear buds |
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| knowing your race time is good |
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| fly it in for the win |
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| no she didn't make contact - but it looks close ! |
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| Chapeaux |
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| childcare is difficult during covid |
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| Queen and Princess for the win ! |
so that was a fantastic day out in oxford, and we missed the torrential rain, by about 10 minutes. The start on waves from 9am to 10:10 meant that the course never got jam packed and was a relatively gentle affair in town - perhaps to the point that some of the cyclists didn't really understand what a closed road meant because there was nothing to really see. The waves did however mean that we got a lot more photos of everyone else because - people were more spread out - and that's a win for us as well as the runners.
If you're interested - it was 10 people starting off every five seconds - there was ten dots on the road as starting points, and a starting countdown clock and traffic light for each group. ten people would come forwards out of the five queues onto the dots during the red light, and then go on green.
The waves were grouped up every ten minutes to be brought to the start area - keeping people back in the park until their wave was time to go.
Heart rate tech.
because you know I love a bit of tech, and well, have a bit of a cardiology thing going on.
This thing works as a normal HR strap with my Polar watch and as it's bluetooth will work with almost any other modern one. Some will even let it display the ecg live on your watch...if you don't want to watch it on your smartphone app.
I've now got a
fourthfrontier.com HR strap that does a two point ECG and QTc measurements as well as breathing rate - allowing it to work out real lung and heart effort and overall physical training stress - so you can train smarter (and not over train or under train!).
Here's a little clip of the sort of "nice then nasty" ECG I get whilst asleep multiple times during the night - and this data is good enough quality to go to my consultant with. Any cardiac consultants reading this blog that can see something going on - feel free to get in touch and tell me !
Anyway, Paula Radcliff uses one, so if it's good enough for her to optimise her workouts, why not you too ?
So we now have three weekends of back to back Mighty Hikes, with their wonderful live galleries on the day, helping them to drive massive fund raising for the wonderful work done by Macmillan. Here's hoping that the weather picks up a bit better in the meantime.
And until next time, well done England on that football match,
Anthony
