Category: Sports

  • London

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    It’s the day before race day for us standard distance age groupers, and we’ve been enjoying watching everyone else racing over the last couple of days. Watching Non Stanford run away from the best in the world, even taking a 15 second penalty, winning the female elite race and taking the points to become World…

  • Road To London – the story so far in 2013

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  • WTA: London’s Calling

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    Check out Welsh Triathlon’s website: London’s calling for our Welsh age-group qualifiers Nice, huh? We’ve done a good job of representing most of the age groups but I really thought there would be more of us! There’s a good showing from Cardiff Tri in there too.

  • Distraction

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    This triathlon thing has been a bit all consuming this year. I’m a natural obsessive but this year it’s been a huge topic. More people have been going hard to qualify for a spot at the home World Champs in London, everybody has been upping their games, the races have been bigger, faster, and as…

  • End of the summer

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    I reckon we’re coming to the end of the summer now, but wouldn’t be surprised if we had an extended dry period through September and into early autumn. The weather this year has been great in Wales, and we’ve become a little too used to it. I’ve had some rides and runs in the rain…

  • Keep plugging away

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    I’m away again tomorrow with the family for a bit, probably away far enough to be off (most of) the grid. No email, no t’internet, lots of space, fresh air, fresh roads and fresh hills. It’s good timing & good planning as I’m coming to the end of an extended block of training designed to…

  • Gower Sprint Triathlon 2013

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    I raced yesterday morning at Port Eynon in one of the few races I’ve managed to get to the start line of every year of my short triathlon *career* so far. It’s a local race, and even though the start is just down the road it’s always a very early morning even for me, the…

  • Summertime

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    <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/samwebster/9268549296/” title=”pembstri13_broadhaven_kmm_119 by samwebster, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7355/9268549296_3a913e26b6.jpg” width=”500″ height=”333″ alt=”pembstri13_broadhaven_kmm_119″></a> Summer’s here, and for us in medical education it’s a surprisingly busy time. The academic year is too long, and the gap in between is too short to run all the re-sit exam papers, prepare properly for the next year and take a holiday.…

  • Lahndahn

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    I was getting ready to write a short thing about how I’m waiting to hear about a possible roll down place for the World Triathlon Age Group Championships to be held on the Olympic course in London in September. As I was writing it in my head I got the email from the BTF awarding…

  • Review

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    I had a crap race on Saturday for a number of reasons, which I’ll summon the strength to write about later this week. If you’ve been reading my blog you’ll recall that I’ve improved again this year, and recently made some tweaks to sort out some issues. I’ve made some training mistakes this season, but…