This is Rangu, the male cheetah living in the Eighberg zoo in Switzerland. I had the great chance to pet him!

This is a photograph from the 7th annual Longwood Village 10KM and 5KM Road Races and Fun Runs which were held in Longwood Village, Longwood, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 23rd October 2016 at 11:00. This photograph was taken on the River Boyne Bridge at Ashfield, Clonard, Co. Meath where the beautiful River Boyne marks the county administrative boundary between Kildare and Meath. The races are held annually to support the development of the local GAA club while also supporting local charities. The race has support from Trim AC which sees the race have full AAI premit status. These races have grown steadily over the years and this year almost 400 participants to part in the two races. This is an impressive statistic given that a very large number of local runners will be preparing for the Dublin City marathon 7 days from now. However both races provide marathon runners and all other runners, joggers and walkers with an ideal opportunity to race on a very fair course in a beautiful rural setting. Barry Clarke of Longwood GAA and Trim AC and his very large group of volunteers deserve the highest of praise for the very high standard of organisation immediately apparent to anyone taking part in the race. Overall the whole day was a great success with the hard work put in by the organising committee ensuring that participants enjoyed their race experience. Both routes were accurately measured, kilometer points clearly marked, junctions well stewarded, and electronic timing provided. The event provided many local runners, joggers, fun runners and walkers with a local event to support whilst at the same time providing runners preparing for events such as the Dublin marathon with an opportunity to race a short, fast, distance in the lead up to marathon day. The GAA club provided excellent stewarding and traffic management all around the course. The race had a professional feel to it and it is sure to grow next year given the very positive feedback from many of the participants today. The weather didn't exactly play ball with some heavy showers of rain for both races. However this didn't do anything to dampen the atmosphere of the race.

We have an extensive set of photographs from all of the races today in the following Flickr Album: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157672030705623

Timing and event management was provided by PopUpRaces.ie. Results are available on their website at www.popupraces.ie/

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM and 10KM 2015: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157660017638535

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM and 10KM 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157648845224981/

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM and 10KM 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157636477484093/

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157631820426332/

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627782257481/

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157625058772687/

Longwood is a small village in South East Co. Meath and is close to the town of Enfield with access to the M4 Motorway. The weather was almost perfect for road running. A beautiful crisp autumn morning with dry cool conditions. 5KM Course: The 5KM started in Longwood village. Runners then took a left turn in the Village down St. Oliver's Road. This straight section of road brings runners to a left turn onto a very well maintained boreen road for less than one kilometer. The race then emerges and joins with the 10KM at Stoneyford where the runners take a left and then another left before arriving back at the finish line in Longwood GAA club. Overall this is a very fast and flat 5KM with no hills to speak of.

10KM Course: The 10KM event begins in Longwood Village outside Dargan's Pub and proceeds westward out of the village. There are some interesting points along this part of the course. At the 2KM point the runners will run under the double bridges - an aquaduct for the Royal Canal and a bridge carrying the Dublin Sligo Railway line. The race then enters county Kildare just before the 3km and after taking a right turn at the four-cross roads known locally as Lally's Cross it returns to County Meath on top of the River Boyne Bridge (Ashfield Bridge) which forms the county boundary. The race follows a straight road for the next 2KM until runners encounter Blackshade bridge which is the toughest climb on the route. As a point of interest Blackshade bridge brings runners back over the Royal Canal and the Railway line. The race then crosses the River Boyne again at Stoneyford before taking a right which will bring runners on a testing two kilometer stretch with some short hills. The 10KM course then joins with the 5Km course for the final 1.5KM back to Longwood GAA club for the finish.

USING OUR PHOTOGRAPHS - A QUICK GUIDE AND ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS

Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?

Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share directly to: email, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.

BUT..... Wait there a minute....

We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.

This also extends to the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.

I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?

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I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?

If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.

Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.

In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.

I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?

Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.

Let's get a bit technical: We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs

We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?

The explaination is very simple.

Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.

ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.

Above all what Creative Commons aims to do is to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?

As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:

     ►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera

     ►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set

     ►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone

     ►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!

You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.

Don't like your photograph here?

That's OK! We understand!

If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.

I want to tell people about these great photographs!

Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets

This is my new car ... isn't it beautiful?

This time of year is big for pool shots

This is a 1969 Austin 1800 Land Crab that was parked at a shopping centre.

Taken at Lisarow, NSW in 2013.

This photostream is a collection of my favorite pics If anyone wants to chat about interior design, you can reach me via my Houzz page - ift.tt/IrzZEF

This is probably my most favorite picture of Colette, ever.

This selection of writing implements and book clasps attest to the scholarly nature of the Greyfriars.

This chickadee apparently thought this stick was in the way. She (I assume, hehe) tossed it aside.

From Martha's Sunday Funnies

Camera: Lomography Colorsplash

Film: Lomography CN 400

1. 121/365 Who needs to pay the professional for this shot?, 2. 122/365 Tulips at Monona Terrace, 3. 123/365 It's good to have Daddy home!, 4. 124/365 Stream, 5. 125/365 Rummage sale prep, 6. 126/365 Peaceful, 7. 127/365 Huh?, 8. 128/365 Yup, it's May 8, and it's hailing!, 9. 129/365 Pond with waterfall, 10. 130/365 Hakuna Matata, 11. 131/365 It's like legal crack!, 12. 132/365 Yellow, 13. 133/365 Playdoh bowling, 14. 134/365 Hairy Harry gets a haircut, 15. 135/365 Tee 'em up, 16. 136/365 Appropriate face for church?, 17. 137/365 Crazy face, 18. 138/365 Rummage prep, 19. 139/365 Come shopping!, 20. 140/365 Alium, 21. 141/365 Closed for the night, 22. 142/365 A medal!, 23. 143/365 Crazy nap hair!, 24. 144/365 Slip n Slide, 25. 145/365 New bike!, 26. 146/365 Morning shadows, 27. 147/365 First Lego set, 28. 148/365 Last day of Preschool!, 29. 149/365 White Sangria, 30. 150/365 Batman, 31. 151/365 Honor

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This is the best sculpture in the whole world. It's difficult to say enough good about Rodin.

thanks lisa for suggesting this crop! i kinda went over board on my software....but i think that this is awesome!!!!!

This shot is tightly cropped because I had to shoot through a chain-link fence.

This UH-1D and the UH-1C in revetment in front of this aircraft had blade strike.

This is a one-off version of the Roding Roadster with an electric engine developed by Siemens.

This lucky attendee received a signed Lionel Messi jersey from the Priceless Surprises vending machine at Mobile World Congress 2015.

This house took a beating from the tornado but it's still standing. Three blocks away it's a different story.

This is my favorite warning sign ever.

This is seen at the sixth annual car show, organized by the Knights of Columbus, and held at Central Catholic School, in Lafayette, Indiana, July 9th, 2016. This year the car show was held on the grass, under trees, in front of the school, instead of in the parking lot. It was also held in the evening, instead of in the afternoon heat.

This picture was taken in Canillas de Esgueva (Spain)

This car is in the universal studio japan

This is the back of a big Hibiscus flower. Isn't it pretty? :)

Taken at Franklin Park Conservatory.

This post card was mailed to Miss Marie Campbell, Fenelon Falls, Ontario on 18 Nov. 1909 from Collins Inlet.

Odette & Derek: For as long as I remember We've been told we'd someday wed Every June until September

Derek: All their pushing and annoying hints

Odette: I've got bruises with their fingerprints

Derek: I can do much better I am sure

Odette: He's so immature

Odette: I see him smiling and my knees start buckling I see inside him and my doubts are gone

Derek: She started out as such an ugly duckling And somehow suddenly became a swan

Odette: So happy to be here

Derek: 'Til now I never knew

Odette & Derek: It is you I've been dreaming of

Derek: This is my idea

Odette: This is my idea

Here a picture of my Prince Derek and Princess Odette dolls together at last.

This night kind of completed my stay in Pieter

This is the placenta of a woman who had monoamniotic twins by cesarian- it was amazing!

This is a section of the South Muskoka river just below Muskoka Falls.

Finn animatronic hiding behind battle-scarred machinery inside the Star Destroyer, lit by moody blue and red lighting during Rise of the Resistance.

This was me vs Tim Williams. Williams fractured my shoulder with the first kick that night.

This is a former Gulf and Pace station.

This is a sample Zumba Fitness flier.

Loved how the sunlight caught this Swan this afternoon

This image was scanned from a photograph from the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle - Churches and Rectories album - A5352a. Erected in 1892.

This image was scanned from a photograph in the University's historical photographic collection held by Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

If you have any information about this photograph, please contact us.

This flower is called higanbana in Japanese which literally means equinoctial flower because it blooms around the autumnal equinox.

Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

今年も律儀に秋の彼岸の頃に咲きました。

神奈川県川崎市にて。

This privately-owned bus is a 1987 MCI TC40-102N.

This bus was originally delivered to OC Transpo as 8776.

Photo taken at Hurdman Station in Ottawa, ON.

This was an OKC Photo Adventures Meetup Group. A group dedicated to outdoor photo adventures! This group is all about getting together for an occasional adventure, improving our photo skills, and capturing some awesome shots. This is our group so if you would like to host a trip feel free to organize one. This group is for anyone that enjoys outdoor photography.

This is why we fought the war, boys! Two men admire the legs of three women. The people in this tiny photo are identified on the back as Red, Edna, Jo, Mary, and Lyle. Lyle's hand touches Mary's thigh, but Mary seems to be okay with this -- unless he did it at the last second before the photo was snapped. It's dated June 29, 1947.

I said that "This is why we fought the war!" but I don't know if Red and Lyle were in World War II. Red might be too young.

Jo and Mary are wearing bikinis, by the way.

This Jo is almost certainly the same Jo in another photo, from 1949.

Gary Busey, actor, turned 3 on this date, by the way.

How to make this photo the wallpaper on your Droid:

1: Get the original size of this photo on your SD card. You can either save it on your computer then copy it to your Droid or use the browser on your Droid and download the original size.

2: Open the photo with the Gallery app.

3: Tap "Set As"

4: Tap "Wallpaper"

5: The app will try to crop the photo. Drag the crop square to include the entire photo. Save.

6: Tap Home. You have a new wallpaper!

This is an photo posted earlier resized for use as a Droid wallpaper

This photo is line because of the white and holographic stripes. The subject is a indigo gift card, I saw it at the checkout and noticed the silver stripes were holographic and I decided to take a picture.

This is a stray cat in Soller

this is the card of the week for our grandchildren !

i only photoshopped

Original picture seen at: www.flickr.com/photos/digitalpotato/2714653423/sizes/o/

Ronald color overlay from: www.likecool.com/Gear/Pic/Creepier Ronald McDonald/Creepier-Ronald-McDonald.jpg

Grimace from: www.catsandbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/grimace.jpg

Hamburglar:

www.outlet4toys.com/thomas the tank engine/hamburgler.JPG

Post-crop vignette, and graduated darker exposure vertically.

Lots of erasing of layers. Got lazy near the end.

Time: 2 hours at Amherst coffee

This is a lie. I never had good tweets.