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Fred

Me...

I will try and update this page with more information before the New Year 2025!

Here's a picture of me surfing in Australia! This is what I'd rather be doing - if there are no waves then I'll fix all those broken computers!

real surfing

I was lucky to meet and marry Beth

Marrying Beth

I also enjoy kayak surfing and compete in the BCU Surf Circuit where I was ranked in 2002 can seen here.

I also enjoy Karate and host the Bristol Shotokan Karate Web site at: http://www.bristolshotokan.org.uk.

I was at EuroBSD Conference 2004 and 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 . During the 2004 conference which was mentioned in this report at ONLamp.com where in Figure 6 my hand becomes famous: EngiBeer

I have been known to run in half marathons:

Race Date Posn [1] Name Race# Gun Time Chip Time 10K Time Notes
Long Marston 1987 Fred Crowson
Long Marston 1991 Fred Crowson
Peterlee 31 August 1997 Fred Crowson 01:40:00 [a]
Bath 25 March 2007 2585 8165 Fred Crowson 8080 01:50:19 01:47:10 00:52:57 [b]
Torbay 24 June 2007 483 1047 CROWSON, Fred 188 1:50:15 1:49:53
Bristol 9 September 2007 2608 9076 Fred Crowson 6757 01:52:35 01:49:17
Torremolinos 3 February 2008 683 965 Fred Crowson 1268 01:54:46 01:54:46 648 Male, 137 Veteran A [c]
Bath 16 March 2008 3977 10,008 Fred Crowson 6270 1:55:38 1:52:54 0:54:34 [results]
June 2008: ruptured anterior cruciate ligament....two shot knees...
Bristol September 2009 Fred Crowson

[1] Total number of race finishers.

[a] Approximate time.

[b] Bath results weblink (2007).

[c] Torremolinos web results (2008).

Fred still has a way to go to catch up with Beth ;~)