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St Michael’s 10K, Stone

Posted on June 21st, 2009 by Pete
Filed under Pete Matthews, Race Reports, Running | 4 Comments

Result from last year: 0:57:47
Current 10k PB: 0:46:30
My target for this race was around 0:46:00 but I have had a fairly hard week with another 10k race last Thursday which saw me get 47.22 on a fairly hard multi terrain course.
After having helped out on my mums boat yesterday I stopped [...]

Two Castles Run – 2009

Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Pete
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Im not one to usually do a race report, but i though i would give it ago,
This was my first ever race last year, so i felt that i had to enter it, even if it was the week after my first marathon..
Woke up on the morning and it was raining… not just normal rain [...]

Urgh pre race illness….

Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Pete
Filed under Pete Matthews, Running | 1 Comment

Well with Edinburgh fast approaching, the long run weeks are disapearing fast.  Due to various race comitments, we decided to do our long run last Friday night. Not a problem usually, but this was our first monster. A full 19 miles..
All went well in the run without too many problems, however a sick feeling developed [...]

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

Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Pete
Filed under Events, Pete Matthews, Running | 6 Comments

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 [...]

EDF ENERGY BIRMINGHAM

Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Pete
Filed under Events, Pete Matthews, Ros Matthews, Running | 1 Comment

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 [...]

Xtreme Terrain 10

Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Pete
Filed under Events, Pete Matthews, Ros Matthews, Running | 1 Comment

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

Stoppies on a VFR =(

Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Pete
Filed under Pete Matthews | 3 Comments

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 [...]

RSS Feeds in a vb.net desktop application…

Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Pete
Filed under IT, Code and other geeky stuff, Pete Matthews | No Comments

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 [...]

oooo New and Shiney

Posted on September 6th, 2008 by admin
Filed under IT, Code and other geeky stuff, Pete Matthews, Ros Matthews, Site News | No Comments

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