Category: Running
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Llanelli Sprint Triathlon 2012 (report)
It was great to see so many Cardiff Triathletes on the Llanelli riviera yesterday, and even better to see them picking up so many trophies! Top day. The weather this year has already been far better for racing than the whole of last year. The wind even dropped to almost nothing and the north dock…
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Whitford point multi-terrain race report (review?)
The Whitford Point race last night was great fun. It had a very relaxed feel, with mostly fairly local people rocking up, paying a tenner and running through some fantastic Gower scenery on a sunny, spring evening. The start and HQ are in Llanmadoc on a small lane nestled amongst some little hills and the…
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Whitford Point
I’m running the Whitford Point multi-terrain (i.e. off road, or cross country, or mud, sand, dirt and tarmac) race this evening hopefully. I’ve heard about this race for a number of years but usually after it happened. “Did you run in the…?” is usually what I get asked in the week after it happened. I…
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Digging a new hole
After the taper for my first A race of the year and losing all the fatigue I’d built up and become used to it’s feeling pretty tough to try and start digging myself into that hole again. Only when you get to look over the edge back at the normal world do you regain the…
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European Triathlon Age Group Championships 2012, race report
My first A race of the year, and my first international triathlon was held in Eilat, Israel. A bit warmer and drier than we get in Wales, so not perfect to prepare for, but the windy desert wasn’t far off what we get on the coast here. I qualified at Bala last year for this,…
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Landed
I’ve landed in Tel Aviv and I’m wondering, why am I here? Not the big, “Why Am I Here?”, but the smaller, why am I here hanging around for several hours in an airport in Israel after an overnight flight and a long coach journey across the UK with very little sleep and bags of…
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European Tri Champs, coming up
It’s Tuesday. We’re all back at work after a nice Easter break. Next Tuesday I’m off to Israel! It’s my first A-race of the year, and a pretty big one at that. The European Triathlon Championships for us age-groupers (i.e. amateurs) is on the Friday and Saturday next week, in the sunny, hot and often…
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150-odd days in the life of an age grouper triathlete
I’ve been taking a photo a day of something training or racing related for the last 150 odd days and putting them up on Flickr as a bit of a 365 project. I started when I began preparing for the 2012 season, and as I train every day I thought I’d snap something as a…