Category: Cycling
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Half season
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…
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Try-a-Tri 2016 Photos
Photos from the weekend’s Try-a-Tri event with the Cardiff Triathletes are up on Flickr. Good weather this year and it looks like a load of fun was had. I love this race. Flickr
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XTERRA England 2015. More please.
What happened? I was happily looking forward to the end of the triathlon season, followed by a whopping increase in gaming time, doughnut eating, lazing around, and probably some sleep too, and then XTERRA happened. After a summer of struggling to train consistently, mental fatigue (and a whole load of physical fatigue), and thick with…
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Final peak
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…
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Racing in 2015
I think most athletes that have been competing at their sport for a number of years feel like they’re struggling to continue to progress. You can measure progression in some areas, you feel like you’re improving, but results often don’t match up. Competition is like that – if we’re all improving and comparing ourselves with…
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Try-a-Tri 2015 photos
I spent a damp morning taking photos at the Cardiff Triathletes’ Try-a-Tri event today. I’ve been doing this for years and it never gets old. Even on an unusually rainy race day everyone seemed to be having a great time and overheard snippets of conversation at the finish line told of fun, a challenge, and…
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Bala
This is a very late race report. One of the things about the last triathlon of the year is that you look forward to the season ending and the start of doughnuts, lying in bed in the morning, and shifts in routine. I’ve also been lazy about writing up my last race of the season:…
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Photos: Stuart MacCormac Sprint Triathlon 2014
I took photos at the Stuart MacCormac triathlon early yesterday morning. The Flickr album is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/samwebster/sets/72157647808947206/