Category: Running

  • 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…

  • Triathlon training in Wales

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    Training over the last couple of weeks has reinforced to me how great it can be to live in Wales, particularly if you get your arse out there to see it. The tides have been high in the mornings making the ride out onto the Gower particularly scenic and encouraging me to warm down after…

  • Run, rabbit, run

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    The Llanelli half-marathon started on a cold morning, which is typical of this race, but without the usual rain/hail/40kph winds. There was a fair old breeze blowing by the coast but we had a bit more protection this year on the new course. This is an early season leg-tester/leg-speeder-upper. It’s an indicator of what the…

  • Llanelli half-marathon 2013

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    Wow, it’s the first race of the year already. It’s a bit early and I’m not anywhere near race form yet but the Llanelli half-marathon is a good tester and gets some race pace into your legs. Last year I was ahead fitness-wise because of an early European Triathlon Champs in April, but for 2013…

  • Swansea Health Solutions supporting me in 2013

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    Swansea Health Solutions will be supporting me again in my triathlon season for 2013. If you follow this blog you’ll know that Gareth has kept me together physically for 4 or 5 years now, and one of the main reasons I can train the way I do is because of the way that he looks…

  • How’s the training going?

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    It’s ticking along steadily, thanks for asking. I’ve just finished an early base block with some early season testing at the end of it. My cycling legs are coming back after a prolonged period of swimming and running, swimming is going well after paying some high volume attention to it when my shoulder recovered in…

  • 2012 training totals

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      I just realised, while out on a nice 3 hour ride around the Cotswolds, that in 2012 I’ve relied on a single source of nutrition for exercise. I’ve been sponsored by BBI Healthcare this year and their GlucoJuice and GlucoTabs ranges. They’re simple, dextrose based energy sources. One is a liquid and the other…

  • Midwinter

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    The shortest day is done! Although the day after was worse – it was so dark and wet all day that it felt like the sun never came up. I’m glad I swapped my run and swim around and avoided the weather. It really was that bad. All the fields I passed on my bike…

  • September

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    The kids are back at school, med students are back with us, summer is certainly over but the weather has been sunny and dry. It’s a funny time of year. I’m not sure I can face going through the mill again for another academic year, but I’m enjoying early autumn and looking forward to the…