Category: Cycling

  • Next!

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        What the hell is wrong with me? I’m gearing up to the last race of the season and I’m already mentally laying out my winter training. Shouldn’t I be welcoming the R&R of October? I always look forward to the changing seasons. This morning was very autumnal out on the bike, in full…

  • Last big block of 2011?

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        I’ve pretty much finished my last big block of training for the year & I’m in a recovery week before a few peaking and taper weeks. I’m quite chuffed that I managed to hit almost every workout in a disrupted schedule, although the running has been limited to aerobic stuff of gradually increasing…

  • Training with power: ditching the iBike

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    My iBike power meter died last week when the wired speed sensor started to fail and the completely crapped out. It needed recalibrating again too after some wet rides, and the data has been unreliable at best and crazy at worst for the last couple of weeks. I’ve kind of had enough of recalibrating and…

  • Mumbles Triathlon 2011

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    Oh what a miserable start to a June Saturday. We sat in our cars waiting out the latest heavy rain shower wondering if we were really going to have to get out and race in this horrible weather. Of course we would. The weather forecast showed the showers mostly holding off for the rest of…

  • Windsor Triathlon 2011

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    I raced at Windsor last year and had a great time. It’s a really good location, I like the windy river swim and I think the run route is cracking (even if it is slow), and I did quite well. I knew I hadn’t paced it brilliantly last year though and was keen to have…

  • Statto: Toshiba Windsor Triathlon 2011

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    Uh, oh, I’ve gone all statto. I really try to avoid this. Analysis is good, over analysis is often too much. Racing at Windsor on Sunday I had a really good day (race report coming soon). I won my age group (!) and was 14th overall, but coming out of T2 into the run I…

  • I hate cyclepaths. Sometimes.

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    I use cyclepaths every day when I ride to work, I support & regularly donate cash to Sustrans, the awesome organisation that has created thousands of miles of cyclepath in the UK and continues to drive new paths across the country, and I am cheered whenever I see one of those little blue and white…

  • Moti Gower Duathlon 2011

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    My excitement building up to the first multisport race of the season was fairly well deserved. It was a windy, early start on the western tip of the Gower peninsula at Rhossili, but the forecast rain didn’t really bother anyone too much. The wind had died down a touch from the projected 20mph+ too. Warming…

  • Testing times

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    Tomorrow is the first multisport race of the season for me, and will be quickly followed by another two this month. They’re training races, getting me prepared for the summer, but they’re also great fun and it’s fairly important to perform well in them. Tomorrow starts early with the Gower Duathlon, running from one of…

  • Riding the Welsh coast

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    The end of March date has been dropped, so we may do the ride in May. In other news, a new podcast is coming very soon on the anatomy of the eye, and the clinical relevance of it all.