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      <title>A Beginner's Week: Running, 12-5-30 and Strength</title>
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      <title>Cape Cod Bay: tides, shoals and the season</title>
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      <description>A plain guide to diving La Catedral, the Isla de San Andres and the shore entries of the Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park: depths, levels and conditions.</description>
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      <description>Muaythai allows elbows, kickboxing and K-1 do not. A look at rounds, the five-second clinch, and how the sport reached the Netherlands in 1976.</description>
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      <title>Telling Niagara River Fish Apart</title>
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      <description>Smallmouth bass, walleye, salmon and trout in the Niagara River: field marks, seasonal timing, and what New York and Ontario rules change for anglers on foot.</description>
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      <description>A plain guide to starting Japanese books: picking a first title, handling vocabulary, and the shop terms tankobon, bunko, shinsho and okuzuke.</description>
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      <description>How long the Isle of Man TT course is, where a lap begins, the named corners along the way, and why Bray Hill stays fixed in memory.</description>
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      <description>What a studio portrait, a bundle of letters and a village register can support, and where careful interpretation has to stop.</description>
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      <title>A First Herding Instinct Test, Start to Finish</title>
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      <description>The surface decides the shoe. A plain guide to running shoes for asphalt, korki and halowki for football, and trekking boots for mountain paths.</description>
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      <title>Street Shows: Playing Area, Crowd and Touring</title>
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      <description>A ten by eleven metre street playing area, a crowd of three hundred to a thousand, and the working life of a touring company: what the practical side involves.</description>
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      <description>How a Swiss crossbow competition at 10 m and 30 m is run, the safety routine and stop signals of supervised practice, and the club framework behind it.</description>
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      <description>How gundog working tests are scored, what happens at a herding trial from outrun to single, and how a first canicross or bikejor season works in Britain.</description>
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      <title>Sea Kayak Capsize, Gear and Crossing Plans</title>
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      <title>The Off-Day Question: Does Running Help Your Golf?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Does running between rounds help your golf? The time cost, the choice of surfaces, the fear of heavy legs before Saturday, and where a beginner actually starts.</description>
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      <title>Walk the Course Before You Play It</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What walking the course before a round reveals that a cart hides: slopes, lies and cheap misses, the stops worth making, and the same habit in motocross track walks.</description>
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    <title>The Practice Ground</title>
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