Category: Daily

  • Walk, Run, Burn

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    Walking the dog, running the hill, and burning the bonfire the other weekend in Cheltenham.

  • Coed Y Brenin

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    I managed to sneak 2 days of leave from work last week during the kids’ half term to get away to Coed Y Brenin Forest Park in North Wales to do some mountain biking and trail running. It’s an excellent place to visit and I’ve been meaning to go for years, often driving past on…

  • Family mountain biking at Afan

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    I was planning to go for a quick ride at Afan Forest Park on Sunday morning, but as we’re planning to visit Coed Y Brenin in the half term week the rest of the family wanted to come too.

  • Finding Blue Pool

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    Kim wanted to go and find a tidal pool that’s hidden in a bay by the sand dunes of Broughton, on the Gower. We had a spot on a map and a vague idea so we followed the coast at low tide as far as we could. It turned out pretty well. But cold!

  • Thoracic Cage Anatomy & Cycling

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    I do a lot of breathing when cycling so I thought I’d record a video about this week’s anatomy topic from year 1 GEM.

  • It’s autumn again

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    Blogging has been paused because this summer has not been good blogging fodder. Racing ended with a torn calcaneal tendon at the end of June, but I’d written off the remainder of the season long before then for other reasons, unrelated to me or my racing. I probably tore the tendon because I wasn’t looking…

  • Half season

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    I’m building up in training towards the TTG Gloucester Triathlon at the end of May, which will be a training race itself, and then the Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon at Broad Haven at the end of June. That race will also be the Welsh Championships for that distance, and apparently the club champs. I haven’t had…

  • Final peak

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    It’s almost the end of August, the end of the summer holidays, the kids are back to school next week and we get our new first year medical students too. It’s also my final (3rd?) attempt to peak my fitness for triathlon in 2015, which is probably tougher mentally than physically. I got it right…

  • Blue tit chicks in the TweetyPi bird box

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    Have you been keeping up with the TweetyPi bird box through its Twitter account? We had some blue tits nest in it and some eggs were laid a couple of weeks ago. Today two of them hatched! Wow, they’re tiny. Follow the @tweetypibirdbox here.

  • Running with Pebble

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    I went for a run with my Pebble yesterday. Being a geek and a triathlete I collect huge amounts of data from my training and have been using Garmin & Polar devices for many years, but as I was running with my iPhone anyway (something I rarely do but needed to be contactable) I thought…