Category: Cycling

  • The Vicar and the Atheist

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    A buddy of mine has roped me into a cycling challenge. He’s not much of a cyclist, and I might have extended the challenge a little too much. He wants to raise money for a South African community that he will be visiting this summer. I want to raise money for Interburns. He suggested riding…

  • Bigger boys!

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    Bala (standard distance) triathlon, 2010 So that was an interesting weekend. Kim and I went to Bala for the last race of the triathlon season. It was great getting back to Snowdonia and fun to camp, although we don’t seem to be as slickly organised as I vaguely remember. Probably the best thing about Bala…

  • Last race of the season

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    Well, my last triathlon for 2010 anyway. I’ve still got a bunch of running races lined up (and a sneaky aquathlon). This will be one of the few races this year that I hope to feel fresh for. I’ve spent most of the year trying to catch up my fitness (after breaking my foot) for…

  • High intensity training

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    My training finally shifted away from largely easy, aerobic base training to more intense race-like training recently. I broke my foot, was in plaster for 6 weeks and had to go back to aerobic training to rebuild my endurance and general fitness. This is my first year of triathlon racing (I’ve completed 2 triathlons in…

  • Cycling home

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    I got a couple of Flip video cameras, so thought I’d test them out by cycling home & filming it. They’re nice and simple, and work well!

  • Gower Sprint Triathlon 2010

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    So this has been a challenging weekend so far. I’m not sure what the lesson is but it’s in there. I invited a mate and his family to come and stay with us and to enter today’s Gower Triathlon. Garry and I used to bike race together when we were half our current ages and…

  • Summer’s here?

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    Just as I was getting used to the long, mostly easy riding, running and swimming my training has switched at last to more race-like speed work. Of course, I’ve been racing since April or May, so I’m a bit out of sync with my original and current training plans. I just finishing my winter training,…

  • Windsor race report

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      I wasn’t going to bother writing a race report, but I haven’t blogged for a bit & it’s getting a bit work biased here, so I’ll write a short bit about the weekend. I’m also writing this on an iPad so let’s see how good this virtual keyboard is. I also raced the Gower…

  • Why I don’t listen to music on the bike

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    Why I don’t listen to music on the bike, originally uploaded by samwebster. Fast music kicks in (in this case, Gorillaz’ Stylo) & you end up popping 500watts on an easy pootle. Sheesh.

  • Fading

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    Day 269: Fading, originally uploaded by samwebster. The results from Llandovery triathlon are in and they look nice for me. I had a fast swim, which I knew, but I also had the fastest bike split. That’s very nice as I don’t think I’m biking very well yet. My bike fitness has only just caught…