Year: 2009

  • Tim Don – Advice for beginners

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    There are a bunch of new first years on the course getting into (and a few very much already into) triathlon. If you new guys & girls are looking for advice there’s nowhere better than to start than with words from the Don. Have a look at some of the other Oakley Armchair Sessions on…

  • Autumn

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    Training has been made much easier over the last month by the great September weather. After another dodgy summer Kim’s predictions of good weather when the kids returned to school proved correct, and we’ve had almost no rain for 4 weeks. It’s far easier to drag yourself out of the door to run when it’s…

  • More Microsoft Courier Info – perfect for students?

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    Take a look at another video of the Microsoft Courier tablet in use. It looks like the perfect tool for students: note taking, organisation, time management, linking, information searching, information storage, and if you can view and annotate Powerpoint files, possibly the perfect lecture companion. The price may crash this idea, of course. Also, does…

  • Pembrokeshire Half-Marathon (Dale) – Race Report

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    I ran the Pembrokeshire half-marathon yesterday in Dale, organised by the Pembrokeshire Triathlon Club. I chose it as my last race before the marathon because of the distance, the hills and the location. I was guessing from the maps but when we got there it was as pretty as expected. Kim and I have climbed…

  • Real cyclists can’t be put back together

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    Via Gizmodo.

  • Bulb!

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    When starting to fix a problem, never rely on anyone else’s data. I learnt this through years of fixing other people’s computer & electrical problems. The first question was always, “is it plugged in?” to which they would usually reply, “yes, of course it is!” But when you checked the plug, often it wasn’t. Or…

  • Week 103 – Lungs! Gasp!

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    On Monday we looked at the anatomy of the lungs, with respect to differences between left and right, lobes, fissures & anatomical relationships (and the heart in particular). To discover lung anatomy we used models, prosections of individual lungs, lungs with the heart and great vessels attached, and looked at a cadaver with lungs in…

  • A Microsoft tablet? It might not be what you think.

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    Take a look at the Courier, Microsoft’s potential addition to the tablet market. It’s quite different to what you might expect, and looks very, very useful. It almost looks, er, Appley. It’s more of a booklet than a tablet. See the Gizmodo article: Courier: First Details of Microsoft’s Secret Tablet

  • Shadow

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    Shadow jumped ahead again at the end of this evening’s run. The sun dropped low behind us & he sprang forward as I turned to look at the view. And he knew my legs were tired. Bastard. Posted with LifeCast

  • Run, boy, run!

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    Time for a training update? I’ve done half of a 115km running week, and this is my penultimate big week. I’ve an easy week next week (a mere 90km with no speed session and no long run) followed by a 120km finale that ends with yet another 32km (20 miler!) long run in which I’ll…