Year: 2012

  • Puncture, what puncture?

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    My front tyre was a bit soft on the bike yesterday but I didn’t realise how soft until I pumped the tyres up today. It looks like I had a hole that the Slime in the inner tube fixed automatically. Some of the green slime was oozing out through pores in the sidewall as I…

  • Swansea Health Solutions new clinic

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    The signs have gone up at the new Swansea Health Solutions clinic & it’s looking really good. Gareth worked on my calves in there last week (first client?) and the interior is coming along too. He’s hoping to be open later this month. www.swanseahealthsolutions.co.uk

  • Mental challenge

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    Preparing for an international race like the European Triathlon Championships (my first race overseas, other than Ireland) has been tougher than maybe I had considered. Physically it’s tough, but it’s fine. Mentally it’s tough, but along with the usual things like fear of failure, of injury, the focus on a single event, and putting yourself…

  • New sponsor: GlucoTabs and GlucoJuice

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    Yep, I’ve got another sponsor to help me in 2012! I’ve been talking with these guys for a little while and was waiting for the logos before blogging about our new association. BBI Healthcare have a base in South Wales nearby, in Pencoed. They make a couple of products right now that are pretty interesting…

  • Base training done, speedy stuff next

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    That’s 98 days of training done in preparation for the 2012 triathlon season, and so far so good. I’ve been testing again this week, and results were a bit weird on the running track (maybe too much coffee…) but the final 200m was the fastest I’ve ever run in that test, my 1000m swim time…

  • Week 222: spinal tracts

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    Ouch – we had some monster neuroanatomy learning outcomes this week. From an anatomy perspective we want students to be aware of the major motor and sensory tracts of the spinal cord, what type of information they carry, where they run (and where they cross over from one side to the other), and what would…

  • I beat myself!

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    I had another crack at getting the me of 2012 to beat the me of 2011 today, and succeeded! Winner! I used a 113km course running from Gowerton out through Neath, up to Glynneath and over the Rhigos and Bwlch mountains, back to Neath and home again. It’s a lovely, lovely route, along the Neath…

  • Finishing my (winter?) base training

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    This week I’m coming to the end of my base block of training. For nearly 3 months I’ve been building my training load by increasing volume and workout intensity bit by bit, with an easier week every 4 weeks to allow myself to recover. Most of that work has been aerobic, but more recently some…

  • Sunwise Waterloo

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    I went out on the bike the other day in perfect testing conditions for the Sunwise Waterloo glasses. It had been chucking it down all day, the roads were wet but the sun came out. It was super bright and low, into my face on the way out (sometimes in Wales we don’t see the…

  • New sponsor: Swansea Health Solutions

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    If you’ve been reading this blog or following me on Twitter for any time you’ll probably know about he-who-looks-after-my-legs. When I started running again I had a few problems and biomechanical issues as my mileage got a bit thick, and he was key to working out what was going on, working on my legs and…