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This is a photograph from the Tullamore Harriers AC "Quinlan Cup" Half Marathon was held on Saturday 30th August 2014 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland at 12:00. This is the second year of the event. Last year, 2013, the event commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the formation of Tullamore Harriers AC which today is one of Ireland's best known athletics clubs. The race was perfectly organised. There were stewarts all along the route, 3 drink stations with bottled water, superb facilities, and great after-race refreshments. The stewards along the route provided great encouragement to all of the runners. Tullamore Harriers and the local community really worked together to make this is a wonderful event. There was also a relay option where teams of two can run approximately 10.5km each. In total 568 participants completed the race which is almost 150 more than the 2013 event.
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Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2100 with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q
This photograph is one of a set of photographs from the Tullamore Harriers Half Marathon 2014. The permanent link to the full set of photographs is [https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646587496250/]. This set of photographs includes photographs of the start and then photographs of the finish up to the 2 HOUR finishing time.
As mentioned above last year this race marathon race celebrated the 60th Anniversary (a Diamond Anniversary) of the foundation of Tullamore Harriers AC. The club was formed in the town in November 1953. However, it was almost 1979 before facilities close to what we see today open in the present day site. Over 50 provincial and national athletics meetings are held at Tullamore Harriers every year. The facilities available combined with it's central geographical location joining routes from North, South, East, and West make it a very attractive venue. The half marathon today firmly brings competitive national road racing back to "The Harriers". In the past there was the famous Quinnlan Cup
Festival of Races (see a link below for some nostalgia) which was one of Ireland's Blue Ribband events with some very famous names of the past lining out for that four mile race. Today, the facilities at Tullamore Harriers are the envy of many athletics clubs in Ireland. The facilities provided by Tullamore make it one of the premier venues for local and national level athletics in Ireland. There is an Olympic standard tartan track, a fully equipped gym, changing facilities, press and media facilities, meeting room spaces, etc. The club also provides a social center and niteclub which makes "The Harriers" a very well known on the local social scene. Esssentially, the town of Tullamore would be a different place if it weren't for the presence of Tullamore Harriers AC.
Overall Race Summary
Participants: There was 568 participants of runners, joggers, and walkers.
Weather: The midday start seen warm pleasant conditions for running. The layout of the course meant that there was a stiff breeze into the face of competitors for the first few miles up to mile 6. When the race turned around to return to Tullamore the wind was somewhat more favourable to runners.
Course: The race starts on the Charleville Road just outside the entrance to Tullamore Harriers. The race proceeds south along the R421 and onto the N52 before taking a route onto local back roads. The race then completes a large rural road route before it joins to the R421 again and the final 1.5 miles are the same as the first mile of the race. The runners enter tullamore stadium and complete one lap of the tartan track before the finish line. The course is challenging in places with some undulations along the route. But overall it is fair course.
Location Map: Start/finish and registration and race HQ was all at Tullamore Harriers AC Club Grounds: goo.gl/maps/xZ4GM (Google Streetview)
Refreshments: There was a very impressive selection of refreshments including sandwiches, cakes, home-made breads, etc in the Harriers clubhouse afterwards. People were able to enjoy their post race refreshments outside in the warm pleasant sunshine.
Some Useful Links related to the race
Our photographs from the 2013 Quinlan Cup Half Marathon: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635307620452/
Youtube PhotoVideo from 2013 race: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbiHE5Eb5I
Another YouTube PhotoVideo from the 2013 race: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCljXrl0BM
A long youtube video showing footage of the race in 2013 and the after-race ceremony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Qg1gqRT9Y
2014 Race Results are available from PRECISION TIMING: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2136
2013 Race Results are available from PRECISION TIMING: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=1448
Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/events/547723028583924/
The Tullamore Harriers AC Website: www.tullamoreharriers.com/
The Tullamore Harriers Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/tullamore.harriers (Facebook logon required)
Quinlan Cup EVENT PAGE on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Tullamore-Half-Marathon-Quinlan-Cu...
The Tullamore Harriers Half Marathon ROUTE on MapMyRun: www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/217165415
The Boards.ie Athletics Discussion Thread on the 2014 Race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057254069&p...
The Boards.ie Athletics Discussion Thread on the 2013 Race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056942637
Read about Tullamore Town on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullamore
Quinlan Cup 1997: ireland.iol.ie/~ar5meade/quinlan97.htm
The Entrace to Tullamore Harriers AC Club Grounds: goo.gl/maps/xZ4GM (Google Streetview)
An Aerial Image of the Facilities of Tullamore Harriers AC: binged.it/12UPZ9N (Bing Aerial BirdsEye )
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Two AEC Reliances from the Starr, Anston (SY) fleet seen here in Scarborough during 1989. BGY 582T had been new to National Travel London whilst YPP 318S had started life with Horlocks of Northfleet.
St Mary, Huntingfield, Suffolk
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It was the first day of the 2019 Easter holidays, and what better way to spend a Monday morning than heading off for a church-exploring bike ride rather than going to work? I caught the train up to Halesworth, and then cycled off out into the hills. The villages and their pretty parish churches come thick and fast around here, and almost all of them are open to pilgrims and strangers daily. There is a good mixture too, round towers, square towers, hardly-any-left towers, reed-thatched roofs, beflinted-porches, and all manner of treasures inside. A fair number of East Anglia's best small churches are in this area. But even given this variety, there is nowhere else in East Anglia quite like Huntingfield church.
This is one of Suffolk's more obscure villages, but the Huntingfield name was that of one of the county's most significant families. Huntingfield is the nearest village to the great pile of Heveningham Hall, with one of the largest Georgian frontages in England. It was rebuilt by the Huntingfields in the 18th Century. Standing on the road and looking across the sheep-scattered lawns to the great building, it is easy to imagine the gulf between the landed gentry and their poor workers in those days. Sandwiched between the traumas of the 17th Century and the energy of the 19th Century, it was the landowners of the 18th Century who had every reason to think that their world was permanent and unchanging, that it would always be as they knew it. Farming sheep, collecting art, patronising musicians, tinkering with primitive science and technology, dispensing benevolent largesse to the poor on their estate - it is a world that is at once attractive and appalling. For them, the Church of England was both an arm of the state dispensing laws, justice and charity, and the setting for the weekly liturgical reinforcement of the puritan-refracted Elizabethan settlement.
But the Industrial Revolution would bring it all to an end, and in more ways than one. In the second half of the latter century, many parish churches were drawn by the excitement of the age into major reconstructions and revisions. Their impulse came from Oxford, where the Tractarians had a vision of the Church of England as a national Church, no longer a protestant sect but restored to the catholicity of its roots, and from Cambridge, where the ecclesiologists decided what a building of the national Church should properly look like. As the young men graduated and were presented to parishes across the country, their ideas spread like wildfire. They had come from their univserities to churches fitted out for protestant worship, with whitewashed walls and box pews focused on the high pulpit, the rarely-used altar gathering dust in the chancel or even discarded. Preaching houses rather than sacramental spaces, and any surviving traces of the building's medieval life survived, perhaps, simply because they were not understood.
Essentially, what happened in England between about 1830 and 1870 was a cultural revolution, a new wave of ideas and the reaction to them. The litugical changes proposed by the Oxford Movement were, at first, objectionable, and then merely controversial. But gradually they seeped into the mainstream, until by about 1890 they had become as natural as the air we breathe. Galvanised by the ferment of ideas and the possibilities of the industrial age, these young men convinced their rich patrons, revolutionised their buildings, and in so doing altered their parishes forever. They often looked to London stars like Scott and Butterfield, or local plodders like Phipson, or else mavericks like Salvin. The demands of the new liturgical arrangements, coupled with a renewed sense of the need to glorify God, led them into what was often a rebuilding rather than a restoration.
Internal decorations were, perhaps, the bespoke work of the architect, Witness Phipson's meticulous attention to detail at St Mary le Tower, Ipswich. Other restorers relied on the big picture, a vision that encompassed walls and floors, but left the fittings to others. By the centenary of the movement in the 1930s, one Anglican clergyman could observe "It is as if the Reformation had never happened". Well, not quite. And now, the pendulum has swung the other way, leaving the ritualists high and dry. But the evidence of the energy of those days survives, especially at Huntingfield, where William Holland, the vicar, drove the Oxford Movement through the heart of the parish, like a motorway through a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The Hollands were the patrons of the living, which gave them the authority and the money to reimagine Huntingfield church on a grand scale. Oxford and Cambridge universites were exclusively for men, of course, but it so happened that William Holland had an energetic and visionary wife. Between 1859 and 1866, Mrs Mildred Holland planned, designed and executed the most elaborate redecoration of a church this county had seen since the Reformation. For seven years, she lay on her back at the top of scaffolding, first in the chancel (angels) and then in the nave (saints on the ceilure, fine angels on the beam ends), gilding, lettering and painting this most glorious of small church roofs. Her husband kept a journal throughout this period, and there is no suggestion that she had any assistance, beyond that of workmen to raise the scaffolding, and a Mr E.L. Blackburne FSA, who was, apparently, an 'authority on medieval decoration'. J.P. St Aubyn was responsible for the structural restoration of this largely 15th century building, and it is very restrained and merciful. But you come here to see the painted roofs, which are perfectly splendid. You can activate the floodlighting with a pound coin in a box at the west end of the north aisle, and the illuminated work is breath-taking.
What else is there to see? Some 15th Century window borders in the east window of the south aisle depict hares and a little dog with a bell around his neck. And what is that at the bottom, a dragon, or a winged lion? Evidence of the church's continued High Church tradition into the 20th Century is in statues of the Blessed Virgin and child flanked by St Francis and St Dominic in a triple image niche set in a pillar of the north arcade. Was it originally for a rood group, perhaps above an altar? Any church is a palimpsest, history written and rewritten over its skin as a touchstone to changing liturgical imperatives and the long generations of its people. Across this canvas the enthusiasms and Huntingfield in Mildred Holland's time are writ large, and will last long.
And there is something else, and a great curiosity. Ann Owen, the Vicar's wife in the neighbouring parish of Heveningham, is also said to have been responsible for 19th Century work in the church there, this time in the form of stained glass. Visiting Heveningham, I am afraid it is difficult for me to find this convincing, although of course one likes to think it was so, and that the two women artists were friends, or possibly even rivals. But Mildred's story has been brilliantly captured in a recent novel, The Huntingfield Paintress by Pamela Holmes. Pamela tells me that 'it was a comment of yours about Mildred and Ann Owen which sparked my determination to write my first novel' which is very kind of her, although I am sure it was easy to be inspired when one stands here surrounded by Mildred Holland's work.
You might thnk that the towering font cover is also by her, but in fact it is her memorial, placed here by her husband, as is the art nouveau lectern. It is as if her art was a catalyst, inspiring others to acts of beauty. She died in the 1870s, predeceasing her husband by twenty years. They are both now buried by the churchyard gate. How fitting, that they should lie in the graveyard of the church they loved so much, and to which they gave so much of their time, energy and money.
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All Saints, North Runcton, Norfolk
It was a gloomy morning, and the parish of North Runcton was not about to lighten the mood. The church is one of East Anglia's few 18th Century rebuilds, and it is set beside a polite, pretty village green with houses for company. There is no reason on God's earth why the church can't be open during the day, except that this is part of the Middlewinch benefice of churches, for whom welcoming the stranger within the gate or giving hospitality to pilgrims thereby entertaining angels unawares is just something some bloke talked about in the Bible.
There isn't a keyholder notice, but there is one of those efficient lists of telephone numbers churches put up nowadays in case of a gas leak or an earthquake or the like, so John and I stood in the rain ringing them, one by one. Eventually a posh lady answered. Yes, she was the keyholder. No, she couldn't bring the key to the church, and the reason for this was quite extraordinary. It was because I was a man. They didn't bring the key to the church if a man rang unless they were accompanied by someone, and as she was on her own she couldn't do that. She suggested I ring another number, a man, the churchwarden.
His wife answered. She was much less pompous than the first keyholder, but her husband was out, he wouldn't be back till that evening, and no she couldn't bring the key to the church because...
The third keyholder was out, but in any case she was also a woman, so there probably wasn't much point in ringing her. In visits to more than 3,000 English churches over the last twenty years I have only been refused admittance to a church twice before. So, seething quietly inside, we shook the dust (well, mud) of North Runcton from our feet and headed on. By the time we reached the road to Grimston, the sun had come out.
Our route during the day took us northwards and then back down towards Downham Market in a long loop. By mid-afternoon we were approaching North Runcton again, so I gave the churchwarden another ring, just in case he'd returned home early. No such luck. I tried the keyholder who'd been out earlier - still out. So I made one final, desperate attempt to convince the first keyholder.
She didn't seem terribly happy that I'd rung back, and went through the same formulation as before as if she was reading it off of a card. So I suggested that we might come to her house and borrow the key. Well, she actually scoffed. She made it very clear that churches do NOT give out their keys to strangers whom they know nothing about. This was news to me, as not twenty minutes before a kind man at Roydon, who I'd never met before and who didn't know me from Adam, had entrusted me with the key to his church. Indeed, I've borrowed hundreds of keys over the years to see inside churches. But I didn't say any of this because she was beginning to make me feel very small indeed. I let her remind me of the moral of this tale, that I should have rung in advance before I'd set off (but where would I have found the number?), and then I ended the call.
Now, it may well be that North Runcton is a thriving parish, and this church is packed to the gunwales three times every Sunday. Perhaps they actually don't need to be open as an act of witness to strangers, pilgrims and those with a thirst for a sense of the spiritual. Indeed, perhaps they have no room to welcome the tax collectors and sinners who might respond to the sense of the numinous they'd find by wandering into this building on their own, on a weekday. Perhaps they actually do need to keep people out.
But I suspect that this isn't so. The great majority of Norfolk's medieval churches are open to visitors every day. The Church of England knows the power of an open church, knows that it is its greatest act of witness, and in any case works very hard in this county ministering to all its people, churchgoers or not. But there are still pockets of Norfolk where the buildings are kept locked from one end of the week to the next, where the risk of Faith that an open door represents is not taken.
Instead, such benefices open their churches only for the slightly smug activities of the Sunday club, while the graveyard is left to the pagan cult of the dead, the bereaved worshipping their recent ancestors with propitiatory flowers, unable to combine this with a prayer said inside a sacred building, increasingly unaware even that this might be an appropriate thing to do.
As the years go by, the congregation gets smaller, and older, and less welcoming to strangers, hanging on to the rituals that comfort them but which otherwise serve no community devotional purpose, and are no means for sharing the faith and love and life of the parish. The building is used less and less often, eventually being abandoned altogether by people who, no doubt, bemoan the decline and fall of their congregation and shake their heads gravely at the immorality of the young of today, their lack of respect and belief.
And yet, they have not even once taken the risk of letting themselves be found by us, the strangers wondering at the God-shaped hole within ourselves, surprising a hunger to be more serious, and gravitating with it to this ground.
I may well yet be told that the parish of North Runcton is not at all like this. But I expect that it probably is. I am in my fifties now, but when I come to places like North Runcton I feel that I will live to see the last days of the Church of England. I was briefly taken with an apocalyptic vision of the Diocese of Norwich, or anyone else with an interest in the survival of the good old CofE, hastening to places like this, pitchforks in hand, to drive out the current regime, to open the doors and windows of the church and let the air and light in.
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What a hungry pair! Orange slices were the special of the day ;0)
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September 1st. Thurday.
Danielle and Jessica.
Cross trained today. Lots of homework.
Trying to get used to school but I just can't.
Summer, come back to me. I miss you a lot.
Photoshoot of sisters modeling bikinis and swimsuits.
Cowgirl models with cowboy hats, revolvers, and cowboy boots.
President Obama came to Athens today, all roads around us were closed, so all we could do was watch on the TV for two days.
Tenerife.
Pyramids of Güimar.
In 1969 and 1970, Heyerdahl built two boats from papyrus and attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco in Africa. Based on drawings and models from ancient Egypt, the first boat, named Ra (after the Egyptian Sun god), was constructed by boat builders from Lake Chad using papyrus reed obtained from Lake Tana in Ethiopia and launched into the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Morocco. The Ra crew included Thor Heyerdahl (Norway), Norman Baker (USA), Carlo Mauri (Italy), Yuri Senkevich (USSR), Santiago Genoves (Mexico), Georges Sourial (Egypt), Abdullah Djibrine (Chad). After a number of weeks, Ra took on water after its crew made modifications to the vessel that caused it to sag and break apart. The ship was abandoned and the following year, another similar vessel, Ra II, was built of totora by Demetrio, Juan and Jose Limachi from Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and likewise set sail across the Atlantic from Morocco, this time with great success. The crew was mostly the same, only Djibrine had been replaced by Japanese Kei Ohara and Madani Ait Ouhanni (from Morocco). The boat reached Barbados, thus demonstrating that mariners could have dealt with trans-Atlantic voyages by sailing with the Canary Current.
Metra 104 "City of Chicago" and Metra 100 "Ernest Marsh" rest comfortably for the weekend at the Manhattan Metra yard. There are two of the oldest passenger diesels on Metra's active roster.
There is no weekend service on the Southwest Service District.
Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008
Manhattan Metra Yard
Manhattan, Illinois, USA
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Two members of a local 'cover' band that played at Dale Phillips's 60th birthday party. They were a talented bunch.
Two masked Tibetan monks waiting to dance at the Tibetan monastery of Yazer Gon in Manigango.
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It was a wet Monday and I spent some time in the market. People shooting was the order of the day and I spotted these two ladies at the fruit and vegetable stall. This was the first shot in the sequence as both girls saw me making pictures. The brunette saw me in this shot and then the blonde. I did approach the two ladies afterwards. They liked the picture and I offered them a copy.