Category: Running

  • Getting on

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        The shoulder seems to be fixing itself pretty well. The bone is doing its own thing as bones do and Gareth at Swansea Health Solutions has been stretching & working on the muscles in my necks and shoulder to get some mobility back after a couple of weeks of immobilisation. It’s amazing how…

  • Moaning tendons

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    You’d think they’d be happy. “Have 2 weeks off”, I said. “No, make it 3. We’ll do nothing except for a bit of walking, and not even much of that”. Did they thank me? Did they make the most of their time off? No. After breaking my clavicle I didn’t run for 3 weeks. For…

  • Christian Malcolm – track sprinter – Mizuno Seiei

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    Here’s another South Wales athlete (Cardiff) who will be running in the 200m & 4x100m (fingers & toes crossed for that one) events in the Olympics. Keep an eye out. Here’s his Power of 10 history of data for the stattos reading: http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=21570 Mizuno are running an elite athlete performance centre in London while the…

  • Kinetica Gower Triathlon 2012

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        Hooray! This morning was an amazing sunny, clear, blue sky, windless, summer Gower morning! Which was a good job as over 300 of us got up before the sun did to race in a sprint triathlon from Port Eynon. It’s a hell of a lot easier getting up daftly early when the rain…

  • Another race ticked: Triexercise Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon 2012

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    Last weekend I turned up to another national champs race: the Welsh National Standard Distance Triathlon Championships at Broad Haven (ooh – I just noticed it’s part of the Grand Prix series and I should be at the next two events too). Pembrokeshire Tri Club’s race in St Bride’s Bay is always good. And hard.…

  • Brit AG std distance tri champs (abbrev.)

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    A challenging weekend. A big cross country drive through Wales (pretty), camping with kids in the rain (leaky tent), a broken exhaust clamp threatening to dump the back box (noisy), trying to get kids moving (slow), almost no mobile phone signal (middle of nowhere), and a very competitive race (big legs, lots of carbon stuff).…

  • Taper

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    Wahey, what a difference a week makes! With the drop off in fatigue and a bit of a lovely taper my reasoning, goals and aims for triathlon in general and the upcoming race have naturally settled and aligned. I had a nice easy spin on the bike on Sunday which allowed me to visualise my…

  • Photos from the Cosmeston Sprint Triathlon 2012

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    For the last couple of years I’ve been racing at Windsor on the weekend of the Cardiff Tri club’s summer race – the Cosmeston Sprint Triathlon. This year I missed out on my entry (probably a good thing as the river was flowing too fast & they cancelled the swim part of the race) so…

  • Gloucester Triathlon 2012

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    I’ve raced in the TTG Gloucester triathlon for the last 2 years (this is my 3rd season in triathlon). It’s a pool swim, so has 1 minute or 30 second staggered starts. It’s a proper time trial from start to finish, you never really know who’s doing what behind you, or what’s happening up front.…

  • Winner!

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    I won the Gloucester Triathlon today! I’ll write up a race report & grab some of Kim’s photos, but it was hot, breezy and a big, big effort. I swam ok (two-piece trisuit is a bit draggy without a wetsuit), hit the bike really hard & the short climbs even harder (knocked my chain off…