Category: Sports

  • Gower Golf Club

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    I was practicing on the chipping range in the late evening, over a week ago. On top of the hill the views and sunsets are great.

  • Down time

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    It’s good to be back on the bike. My hamstring injury didn’t seem to be getting much better so I tried to take a full 9 days off any sort of exercise, which included my daily cycle to work. Very inconvenient. I can’t say that it feels as though it has helped much (but it…

  • Stitch Pain: New light on stitch

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    I often get asked about the cause of the “stitch” pain many people suffer from when running. No-one is entrirely sure of the cause or if there are multiple causes, but a recent study has helped define it. Sports Injury Bulletin: Stitch pain article. It appears that most people get a stitch on their right…

  • Golf in the rain

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    A snap from the weekend, playing at Earlswood GC in the rain. My new umbrella did very well. This is the winter tee from the 14th, giving you a choice of whether to carry across to the other side of the “canyon” or to lay it up to the fairway below.

  • Swing comparisons

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    My golf swing is always changing – as a beginner I’m trying to learn the good habits before I get too many bad habits settled in. Here are two videos taken about 6 weeks apart. In the video from today I can see that I’m getting more weight onto my back leg (which the pro…

  • Christmas Pudding Race

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    I finally managed to get out for a short run today. I’ve not been running for about two and a half weeks, and I’m racing at Merthyr Mawr in the Brackla Harriers’ annual Christmas Pudding 10K on Sunday. I had a throat infection last week and was just plain too busy the week before that,…

  • Snapped 3 Wood

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    I broke my 3 wood at the driving range. No unusual bashes, it just fractured. I twisted the head to test it after it had slipped around the shaft by about 30 degrees, and it broke away.

  • Earlswood GC

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    A hilly golf course with great views and some mad holes. Greg in trouble.

  • Swing

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    It seems strange to many people that I’ve gone from rock climbing and mountaineering to golf. The two sports are at apparent opposite ends of the “dangerousness” spectrum and do seem very different, but as with most sports there are surprising areas of overlap. One is to do with the storage of muscle movement sequences…

  • New Grips

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    I regripped my woods. These are a couple of old clubs from eBay (hey, there’s no difference between £100 and £20 per club when I’m struggling to hit the ball) that looked like they still had their original grips, probably from 5 or 6 years ago. It took me about 20 minutes to remove the…