Year: 2012
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Whitford point multi-terrain race report (review?)
The Whitford Point race last night was great fun. It had a very relaxed feel, with mostly fairly local people rocking up, paying a tenner and running through some fantastic Gower scenery on a sunny, spring evening. The start and HQ are in Llanmadoc on a small lane nestled amongst some little hills and the…
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Whitford Point
I’m running the Whitford Point multi-terrain (i.e. off road, or cross country, or mud, sand, dirt and tarmac) race this evening hopefully. I’ve heard about this race for a number of years but usually after it happened. “Did you run in the…?” is usually what I get asked in the week after it happened. I…
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Digging a new hole
After the taper for my first A race of the year and losing all the fatigue I’d built up and become used to it’s feeling pretty tough to try and start digging myself into that hole again. Only when you get to look over the edge back at the normal world do you regain the…
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European Triathlon Age Group Championships 2012, race report
My first A race of the year, and my first international triathlon was held in Eilat, Israel. A bit warmer and drier than we get in Wales, so not perfect to prepare for, but the windy desert wasn’t far off what we get on the coast here. I qualified at Bala last year for this,…
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Tracking our Graduates’ Project
The College of Medicine, Swansea University is interested in understanding what happens to our graduates when they leave their undergraduate medical training. I’m not directly involved with this project, but I’m spreading the word. If you’re in your final year of study, or if you started your studies in 2006 and you were a Graduate…
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European Triathlon Champs, Eilat, 2012 – how did I do?
How did I do? How did I do? I only went and finished in 3rd place in my age group race! Chuffed to bits.
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Landed
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…
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Sunwise Competition
Sunwise are running another sunglasses competition. Nip to their competition page if you fancy a pair: Sunwise sunglasses competition Competition closes 30th June 2012.