Year: 2010

  • Week 201: The Otic Ganglion

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    Ouch! That wasn’t a nice way to start the second year of medical school was it? OK, so most of the session was about the tongue and salivary glands, which seem simple enough until you start trying to hook them up. Then you get into cranial nerves and the intricacies of head and neck anatomy.…

  • Maybe I’m a bit Wilbur

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        My mum has a dog called Wilbur. He’s the big black setter spaniel cross in the grass at the top of my blog pages. He’s a lovely dog and he loves chasing balls. There is nothing he loves more than chasing balls and running. Not even food. See ball! Ball thrown! Run! Chase…

  • Small time exploration

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      One of the best things about being fit is in having the confident ability to get lost and explore, to find and see places you wouldn’t otherwise see. Running, cycling, swimming, walking, climbing – most of the things I do let me explore. From the tops of (or sometimes partway up) cliffs you see…

  • Ready?

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    After finishing the last high intensity training block & feeling dizzy tired I’ve been on an easy week of training for the last 5 days. A little running, a little pootling on the fixie, a little splashing in the pool. After just a couple of days I was feeling good. I’m keen to race again…

  • High intensity training

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    My training finally shifted away from largely easy, aerobic base training to more intense race-like training recently. I broke my foot, was in plaster for 6 weeks and had to go back to aerobic training to rebuild my endurance and general fitness. This is my first year of triathlon racing (I’ve completed 2 triathlons in…

  • Golf has too many rules

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    Day 373: Golf has too many rules, originally uploaded by samwebster. I was complaining about the number of rules in golf in a 365 Flickr photo last week and then this happens in the USPGA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/8916112.stm

  • Mid-season kit failures (cont)

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      Triathlon uses a lot of kit, and triathlon training uses even more. So some of it fails, but when it all fails at once it’s frustrating & time consuming to sort out, repair or replace. I got my iBike power meter back from Velocomp in the USA, replaced under warranty after failing in the…

  • Cycling home

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    I got a couple of Flip video cameras, so thought I’d test them out by cycling home & filming it. They’re nice and simple, and work well!

  • Swansea-Gambia Link Project 2010

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    A group of students are out in the Gambia looking at health in the context of international development. If you want to find out more and keep up with what they’re doing, take a look at their blog: swanseagambialinkproject2010.blogspot.com

  • 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…