Category: Racing

  • European Triathlon Champs, Eilat, 2012 – how did I do?

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    How did I do? How did I do? I only went and finished in 3rd place in my age group race! Chuffed to bits.

  • Landed

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    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…

  • European Tri Champs, coming up

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    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…

  • Mumbles Duathlon 2012

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    Wow, what a morning. What a day. What a weekend! The Mumbles Duathlon is a short, interesting race in a fantastic location, in my back yard and right on my training grounds. The start and finish is at Knab Rock in Mumbles, and the weather (even at 6 in the morning) was fantastic. Blue sky,…

  • Time for a cold bath

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    I’m back from this morning’s race (the Mumbles duathlon – I’ll write up a thing later) and I eventually got myself into a cold bath, and then a hot shower. Ideally it would be an ice bath and a hot bath, but this is the routine that is the best mix of convenience and effective…

  • Early season races

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    The first races of the season can be the most nervy. Right now I’ve got a lot of, erm, anticipation for a fairly minor race in my overall season. It’s a good thing. I love feeling like this. I guess it’s a bit like the first night of a new play that you’ve been working…

  • Pre-Mumbles Duathlon

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    Aha – I just got my entry into the Mumbles Duathlon in time. The latest email says over 200 people will be at Knab Rock for the 7.30am start on Saturday morning. I’m guessing that will spell the end of the good weather… The “long” course is a 5km run with a 32km bike and…

  • Llanelli Half-marathon 2012

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    Early season races are all about learning. So what did I learn today? 1. Put your timing chip on your shoe the night before the race (almost a big oops).2. Find another way of carrying Glucojuice bottles (mine wasn’t there when I went for it).3. Slow down to grab drinks when wearing gloves (splash).4. I…

  • Racing tomorrow!

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    I’m running at Llanelli tomorrow and looking forward to it! Hopefully it’ll be 13.1 miles fast. It’s usually a wet and windy coastal race and that’s what the forecast predicts we’ll be in for again tomorrow. My printed kit just turned up in the post today after being well looked after too. Good timing! If…

  • March!

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    Well, its almost March. The sun is out again today, last weekend was gorgeous for training by the sea, and the first race of the early or pre-triathlon season is coming up on Sunday. It’s starting to feel like spring already! We’ve had a fairly mild winter out by the Gower but I’ll still be…