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  • Landed

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    I’ve landed in Tel Aviv and I’m wondering, why am I here? Not the big, “Why Am I Here?”, but the smaller, why am I here hanging around for several hours in an airport in Israel after an overnight flight and a long coach journey across the UK with very little sleep and bags of…

  • A new training partner

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    Check me out, with my state of the art gadge! My longest running sponsors, mum & dad (& my brother & sister), bought me the brand new Garmin 910XT multisport watch for my birthday! Thanks everybody! As I train on my own and often these things are my constant and primary companions. Sometimes you set…

  • Still hungry

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    I’ve almost finished my fifth block of training in preparation for the 2012 triathlon season and I’m still looking forward to getting out on my bike and loving the early morning runs. Not bad, eh? The recent sunny weather and strong fitness probably help, but loving the training is a great sign. Ok, the hill…

  • Upgraded software: cardifftri.net

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    I got stuck into upgrading cardifftri.net‘s content management system from the ageing, crumbling Mambo 4.5.2, through a number of iterations of Mambo (none worked for me), through to Joomla! 1, then on to Joomla! 1.5, and then, finally at the weekend, over to Joomla! 2.5. This is the latest release of this content management system,…

  • cardifftri.net forced backend upgrades

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    My hosting company upgraded the version of PHP on my servers to 5.3 last night. Unfortunately I use old versions of Mambo as the content management system for cardifftri.net, and it doesn’t work properly with PHP 5.3. As I found out this morning. So I have to backup my SQL databases, backup my server files,…

  • Swansea Health Solutions new clinic

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    The signs have gone up at the new Swansea Health Solutions clinic & it’s looking really good. Gareth worked on my calves in there last week (first client?) and the interior is coming along too. He’s hoping to be open later this month. www.swanseahealthsolutions.co.uk

  • New sponsor: GlucoTabs and GlucoJuice

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    Yep, I’ve got another sponsor to help me in 2012! I’ve been talking with these guys for a little while and was waiting for the logos before blogging about our new association. BBI Healthcare have a base in South Wales nearby, in Pencoed. They make a couple of products right now that are pretty interesting…

  • Finishing my (winter?) base training

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    This week I’m coming to the end of my base block of training. For nearly 3 months I’ve been building my training load by increasing volume and workout intensity bit by bit, with an easier week every 4 weeks to allow myself to recover. Most of that work has been aerobic, but more recently some…

  • Cardiff Tri Male Athlete of the Year

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    I forgot to mention that I was voted Male Athlete of the Year for 2011 by members of the club. Thanks everybody that voted, and thanks even more to those that voted for me! I couldn’t make it to the Christmas dinner unfortunately, but it was a very lovely thing to be told of at…

  • 2012, here we go

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    Oh no! Christmas and New Year celebrations are over, we’ve got to go back to work and wait a whole year to do it all again! Time to plan a holiday I think. So 2011 was a tough year, but a lot happened. Illness and death are as hard as it gets, but from those…