Category: Sports

  • Getting on

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        The shoulder seems to be fixing itself pretty well. The bone is doing its own thing as bones do and Gareth at Swansea Health Solutions has been stretching & working on the muscles in my necks and shoulder to get some mobility back after a couple of weeks of immobilisation. It’s amazing how…

  • Moaning tendons

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    You’d think they’d be happy. “Have 2 weeks off”, I said. “No, make it 3. We’ll do nothing except for a bit of walking, and not even much of that”. Did they thank me? Did they make the most of their time off? No. After breaking my clavicle I didn’t run for 3 weeks. For…

  • Swansea Health Solutions

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    I spend quite a bit of time in here. Gareth has been looking after me for a few years now, and with my broken collarbone I think he’s going to be seeing a lot of me over the next couple of months. The NHS nurses, health care assistants and surgeons have been great and I’ve…

  • A week or so of repair

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    I’ve been good, keeping my broken shoulder immobilised (well, the pain helps with that) and staying wedged on the sofa in front of the Olympics on the telly. The iPad is very handy & I’ve been able to read a lot but I got sick of talking to it. Sitting at a desk & typing…

  • An early break

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    I had a little tumble on my bike on Sunday. I was doing a tempo segment followed by a nice longish aerobic portion and the 12 minute tempo reps had gone really well. Lots of power coming out of my legs and I was having a nice easy spin around Tewkesbury to warm down. It…

  • Christian Malcolm – track sprinter – Mizuno Seiei

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    Here’s another South Wales athlete (Cardiff) who will be running in the 200m & 4x100m (fingers & toes crossed for that one) events in the Olympics. Keep an eye out. Here’s his Power of 10 history of data for the stattos reading: http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=21570 Mizuno are running an elite athlete performance centre in London while the…

  • Kinetica Gower Triathlon 2012

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        Hooray! This morning was an amazing sunny, clear, blue sky, windless, summer Gower morning! Which was a good job as over 300 of us got up before the sun did to race in a sprint triathlon from Port Eynon. It’s a hell of a lot easier getting up daftly early when the rain…

  • Brit AG std distance tri champs (abbrev.)

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    A challenging weekend. A big cross country drive through Wales (pretty), camping with kids in the rain (leaky tent), a broken exhaust clamp threatening to dump the back box (noisy), trying to get kids moving (slow), almost no mobile phone signal (middle of nowhere), and a very competitive race (big legs, lots of carbon stuff).…

  • Taper

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    Wahey, what a difference a week makes! With the drop off in fatigue and a bit of a lovely taper my reasoning, goals and aims for triathlon in general and the upcoming race have naturally settled and aligned. I had a nice easy spin on the bike on Sunday which allowed me to visualise my…

  • Drive

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    I’m lost. Or at least, I feel lost. It happens every now and then, and I usually tell Jack that getting lost isn’t a bad thing. It’s a form of exploring. It’s only June and I’ve already hit some big goals for sixes. For most triathletes the season is just gearing up as summer hits…