Category: Sports

  • Gulp

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    Gulping air, originally uploaded by samwebster. Surprised to see me?

  • Triathletes

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    Triathletes, originally uploaded by samwebster. Guess where? Try-a-Tri photos are up on cardifftri.net. And look at that! A sneaky 1st year student has sneaked into the oganisation (Oliver, facing camera).

  • My ball bag

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    I’m reaching a milestone in beginner golf. I’m actually wearing balls out playing with them and retiring them to my practice bag, instead of just losing them in bushes/ponds/ditches/trees/long rough/out of bounds/rabbit warrens/outer space!

  • Practice, practice, practice

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    Practice makes permanent?

  • Green is White

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    I played golf at my club with my brother Nick on Saturday. Luckily, he had just finished resoundly thrashing me when it started hailing. We legged it off the 18th, and retired to the clubhouse for a beer. This is what the 18th green looked like from the clubhouse. Cool, eh? The temporary greens were…

  • Driving sucks

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    Some days I need to drive into work, and I’m reminded of why I cycle. Commuting by car sucks. Even when it’s wet it’s better by bike (although having a cycle path helps).

  • Jack at the range

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    Jack wanted to come to the driving range with me so I bought him a junior club about the right size for him, gave him a bucket of balls and let him at it. He’s pretty good, but he doesn’t half get through a bucket of balls quickly!

  • Excercise ‘must be tough to work’

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    Apparently people are confused about exercise and health. I’d go along with that, noticing a large number of large and slow people suddenly appearing outdoors on the cycle paths when the weather becomes pleasant. While a BBC article reports that it is unclear whether one should perform light exercise for half an hour, three times…

  • Welsh Tour Rider

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    The 94th Tour de France starts on Saturday, and it starts in London. Freakier than that, the Tour de France – the biggest and most important cycle race in the world – will start with Geraint Thomas from Cardiff within the peleton. Crazy. Geraint used to ride with Cardiff JIF, a club I was attached…

  • Try-a-Tri 2007

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    OK, so I wasn’t really lazing around on the sofa on Sunday. I was up at 5.30am to get to Cardiff and take photos for the Cardiff Triathletes’ novice Try-a-Tri triathlon. I took almost 600 snaps, thanks to a new SanDisk II Ultra 4GB memory card. Most of those photos have gone up on the…