Category: Sports

  • TriExercise Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon 2013

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    Between the European Triathlon Championships and the British Champs this year there’s a tricky 4 weeks of working out how to recover, kick the fitness on, and try to “peak” again. There’s not much you can do or expect from 4 weeks, and as you dropped most of your training load & fatigue for the…

  • European Triathlon Champs 2013

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    A couple of weeks ago I raced as an age grouper in the Euro champs in Alanya, Turkey. Since coming back I’ve been busy catching up after taking only a handful of days away from work. I’ve also been mulling over what happened, how I’m performing and what to change. The venue was pretty good.…

  • Up and away

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    I’m off to Turkey tomorrow for the European Triathlon AG Championships in Alanya. I’ll be racing in the standard distance event on Friday morning, and I’m looking forward to having a good crack at it. I think my form is coming around, and Friday will be a test of my training over the last x…

  • Deva Triathlon 2013

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    Oh dear. They say you learn more from your bad races than from your good ones, so I’ll try to do that here. The Deva Triathlon up in Chester was a World Age Group Triathlon Championships qualifier, and as we have a home World Champs this year, and a home World Champs on the Olympic…

  • TTG Gloucester Triathlon 2013

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    The first race is in the bag! It was good to get that out of the way, and great fun on a sunny day in Gloucestershire. The TTG Gloucester Tri is a sprint distance race starting athletes off in a 25m pool at 1 minute intervals, so it feels like a time trial. It was…

  • Weight training & endurance athletes

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    I’m getting older, so regular strength training is even more important for me now than it was when I was younger. I enjoy it more these days too. Olympic lifts are fun, and sometimes it’s nice to train indoors where it’s dry and warm. Many endurance athletes worry about strength training. I think their concerns…

  • Try-a-Tri 2013 Photos

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    My photos from yesterday’s Try-a-Tri run by Cardiff Triathletes are up on Flickr: Full resolution photos are in there (have a hunt). A Creative Commons License is attached to the Flickr page but they’re free for competitors’ usual uses.

  • Google Glass: triathletes and wearable computing

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    Image from Flickr by Antonio Zugaldia Alright. Google Glass. Here we go. Google Glass has been hitting the news recently for a few reasons. It’s the next big thing. Or it’s not the next big thing. Everybody will be recording everybody else. We will need to learn new lessons in etiquette. It sucks. Its amazing.…

  • Gadgets

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    I bought a new set of scales and they say I am heavier than I thought I was. I bought a new gadget to measure my sleep and it says I don’t sleep as well as I thought I did. I bought a new power meter and today’s test says I don’t put out as…

  • How to stay warm on the bike

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    Another cold snap has hit us when we were getting used to the idea of some milder weather and the roadside flowers of spring. From Twitter and whatnot I get the impression that people not used to riding through a winter are riding their bikes and struggling a little with the cold. Morning temperatures are…