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2nd Nov 2008 - 4.5 Mile White Horse Chase - 00:36:23

[ 4 November, 2008; 10:00 am; ] Round one of the clubs winter league saw about 20 people freezing their butts off in the middle of Balsall Common. The route was a 4.5mile loop all on road, and mostly flat.
Being in group A (the slow ‘uns) we set off 5mins ahead of the others.  It was only a small group but I [...]

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EDF ENERGY BIRMINGHAM

[ 26 October, 2008; 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. ] On 26th October 2008 Birmingham will stage its first ever half marathon organised by Birmingham City Council and this historic Race Against Climate Change is sponsored by
EDF Energy. 

The EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon, which is 13.1 miles long, will start outside the Birmingham Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr, a fitting venue given that the stadium [...]

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Xtreme Terrain 10

[ 27 September, 2008; 8:30 am to 9:30 am. ] Twice around the 5k track, all multi terrain with slight inclines and trails. This course uses the same tracks as the other Festival events. Although not particularly hilly it is wonderful scenary to run across with some fast gravel tracks and slower heathland trials.

Xtreme Terrain 10

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Stoppies on a VFR =(

Well yesterday morning i discovered that stoppies on my VFR are baaaaaaaad.
Coming up to a round about the nice transit van infront of me decided that he was going to go, and then stop. I slammed on my brakes which cased me to do a stoppie and then as the back landed i lost my [...]

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RSS Feeds in a vb.net desktop application…

Ok so i thought it would be a good idea to write an RSS feed reading into the project that im currently working on.
Based on this i found the following code:

Public Shared Function ProcessRSS(ByVal rssURL As String, ByVal feed As String) As String
Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(rssURL)
Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()
Dim sb As [...]

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oooo New and Shiney

Im still trying to figure out whats going on with this wordpress thing, so please bare with me.
It may take me a few days to get all of the piccys back up aswell

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