An athlete from Australia, Claire McFarlane, rowed at the national level. She also competed in the Australian National Championship when she was 18-years-old.

Back then, she did not enjoy running. This all changed in 1999 when Claire was raped in Paris while living there as a foreign student. In 2009, 10 years after the ordeal, the French Police caught the assailant through DNA. Claire identified the man in a line up, and the horrific memories of that fateful night came flooding back. To continue reading, please visit: https://www.runsociety.com/inspiration/run-to-help-raise-sexual-violence-awareness/...

As boredom sets in...

As a way of practicing my Photoshop skills, I decided to create a "group" portrait of myself wearing all nine of my IBRD shirts. The pictures were all taken in about a half-hour time span last Saturday in my backyard.
My only regret is that there is no 10th anniversary shirt for this year. Perhaps whenever IBRD resumes I will re-create the picture.

Hope you enjoy this little bit of whimsy!

A CAMBODIAN boy became a topic of conversation of the Filipino biking community online for his dogged determination in a cycling race.

A Facebook post by a certain Hong Makaravuth showed the Cambodian kid competing in a race barefoot and using a worn-down Japanese bike while going up against other kids his age in their shiny mountain bikes. To continue reading, please visit: https://www.spin.ph/cycling/this-st...hed-many-filipino-bikers-online-a795-20201111...