Month: October 2009

  • I love Halloween

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    I’ve always loved Halloween, maybe from an interest in all things ghoulish (and I guess that interest may have lead me to my current job). Go and get your Halloween wallpaper: – Lifehacker: Wallpaper Roundup: All Hallow’s Eve and Spooky Scenes

  • Off To Dublin

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    Kim & I are on our way to Dublin. The kids are staying with my parents, so it’s going to be a weird weekend. This taper period has been very interesting. My legs have become very strong & swift, with some tightness of most of the tendons passing around my ankles. My heart rate was…

  • Taper

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    With 5 days to the marathon I’m well into my taper, and it’s a funny thing. It’s almost like I’m already into the rest & recovery part of the season. I’ve never tapered this long before (and for much of the time when I was racing, years ago, I never really tapered) and I’m out…

  • Embryology quiz

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    I’m writing the quiz for my introduction to embryology lecture that I’ll be giving to the first years next week. The quizzes use the Turning Technologies interactive ‘clickers’ systems, and we use them anonymously. There’s no record of how well an individual scores within the lecture quiz – it’s just for fun (and instant lecturer…

  • Media, information, access

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    How do you access most of your information? As a learner? As a teacher? (Unfortunately this is a question you’ll have to think about, as I still haven’t fixed my comment system).

  • Week 106 – Surface anatomy of the thorax

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    When we looked at the surface anatomy of the thorax yesterday we focused on the bony bits anterior to the mediastinum. We found the sternal notch (or suprasternal notch, or jugular notch), the sternal ends of the clavicles, the manubrium, the sternal angle (or angle of Louis) and the sternum. Our aim was to look…

  • Fear

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    2 weeks to go until the Dublin marathon. At this late stage I’ve got a big pile of fears. I’ve worked hard for a year, I’ve put in huge efforts in training and I’m not planning to run marathons every year, so I’m putting all the preparation on one big race: the 2009 Adidas Dublin…

  • Mobile phones in developing countries

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    Jezebel have an interesting article on the importance of easy communication, in this case via the mobile phone, in developing countries. (I don’t read Jezebel, honest – this was linked to from Gizmodo). There’s an important need to be able to easily contact someone, but also to access information. I’d love to know more about…

  • 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…