Year: 2012

  • Cardiff Tri Male Athlete of the Year

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    I forgot to mention that I was voted Male Athlete of the Year for 2011 by members of the club. Thanks everybody that voted, and thanks even more to those that voted for me! I couldn’t make it to the Christmas dinner unfortunately, but it was a very lovely thing to be told of at…

  • Race yourself. Virtually.

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    I noticed some nice new motivational winter training videos and bits up on Garmin Connect the other day (here’s the cycling video) and it reminded me to use the virtual partner function for this morning’s ride as I ride solo & fancied comparing myself to this stage of training last year. I’ve built up a…

  • January training

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    I’m now in the third block of training for the 2012 season, and feeling pretty good. Knackered, but good. This will be the last block of the traditional “base” phase of training, so I’ve just got 3 long rides left. It looks like we’re moving on from the mild, wet weather of the winter so…

  • Week 219 – blood circulation in the lungs

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    The Christmas holidays are over and we’re back to teaching (and learning). This week we went back to the lungs and added a little detail by looking at the pulmonary vessels in more detail, and adding the bronchial arteries and veins to this. As this is a teaching week about pulmonary embolism this anatomy should…

  • I got there in the end

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    Don’t we always? Keep pushing forward bit by bit and you’ll get there. That’s what I keep telling myself every time I play golf anyway. But I’m talking about running. I tweaked my left medial gastrocnemius muscle (calf to some of you) at the end of the 2010 season charging up a steep, rocky hill…

  • 2012, here we go

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    Oh no! Christmas and New Year celebrations are over, we’ve got to go back to work and wait a whole year to do it all again! Time to plan a holiday I think. So 2011 was a tough year, but a lot happened. Illness and death are as hard as it gets, but from those…