Category: Swimming

  • Mumbles Triathlon 2011

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    Oh what a miserable start to a June Saturday. We sat in our cars waiting out the latest heavy rain shower wondering if we were really going to have to get out and race in this horrible weather. Of course we would. The weather forecast showed the showers mostly holding off for the rest of…

  • Windsor Triathlon 2011

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    I raced at Windsor last year and had a great time. It’s a really good location, I like the windy river swim and I think the run route is cracking (even if it is slow), and I did quite well. I knew I hadn’t paced it brilliantly last year though and was keen to have…

  • Devil’s Aquathlon 2010

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      I raced in the inaugural Devil’s Aquathlon last weekend in the Lido at Sandford Parks, Cheltenham and up Leckhampton Hill. It was a 2km outdoor pool swim, wetsuits allowed, followed by a mostly cross country 10km run with a nice steep 200mish hill to climb. The aim was to run to the Devil’s Chimney,…

  • Bigger boys!

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    Bala (standard distance) triathlon, 2010 So that was an interesting weekend. Kim and I went to Bala for the last race of the triathlon season. It was great getting back to Snowdonia and fun to camp, although we don’t seem to be as slickly organised as I vaguely remember. Probably the best thing about Bala…

  • Last race of the season

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    Well, my last triathlon for 2010 anyway. I’ve still got a bunch of running races lined up (and a sneaky aquathlon). This will be one of the few races this year that I hope to feel fresh for. I’ve spent most of the year trying to catch up my fitness (after breaking my foot) for…

  • Gower Sprint Triathlon 2010

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    So this has been a challenging weekend so far. I’m not sure what the lesson is but it’s in there. I invited a mate and his family to come and stay with us and to enter today’s Gower Triathlon. Garry and I used to bike race together when we were half our current ages and…

  • Summer’s here?

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    Just as I was getting used to the long, mostly easy riding, running and swimming my training has switched at last to more race-like speed work. Of course, I’ve been racing since April or May, so I’m a bit out of sync with my original and current training plans. I just finishing my winter training,…

  • Windsor race report

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      I wasn’t going to bother writing a race report, but I haven’t blogged for a bit & it’s getting a bit work biased here, so I’ll write a short bit about the weekend. I’m also writing this on an iPad so let’s see how good this virtual keyboard is. I also raced the Gower…

  • Fading

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    Day 269: Fading, originally uploaded by samwebster. The results from Llandovery triathlon are in and they look nice for me. I had a fast swim, which I knew, but I also had the fastest bike split. That’s very nice as I don’t think I’m biking very well yet. My bike fitness has only just caught…

  • Again, OMG I live here!

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    Again, OMG I live here!, originally uploaded by samwebster. This is from last weekend (which, for some lovely reason, feels like an age ago) from Langland Bay. I swam with Thom and Holly early on a Saturday morning. Time: 8am. Air temp: 8C Sea temp: 8C Wonderful. And chilly. Incidentally, this is the route we…