Month: February 2012

  • March!

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    Well, its almost March. The sun is out again today, last weekend was gorgeous for training by the sea, and the first race of the early or pre-triathlon season is coming up on Sunday. It’s starting to feel like spring already! We’ve had a fairly mild winter out by the Gower but I’ll still be…

  • cardifftri.net forced backend upgrades

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    My hosting company upgraded the version of PHP on my servers to 5.3 last night. Unfortunately I use old versions of Mambo as the content management system for cardifftri.net, and it doesn’t work properly with PHP 5.3. As I found out this morning. So I have to backup my SQL databases, backup my server files,…

  • Build block fatigue

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    I’m in the third week of my first build block for 2012 & the fatigue is hitting me nicely. I’m ready & recovered for each hard session but afterwards I’m sleepy & knackered. Dropping the volume & increasing the intensity is tiring me out. Zzzzz. Next week will be an easy week, and I’ve already…

  • BB

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    One of the worst jobs to do on the bike is swapping the bottom bracket. Its not that bad a job, if it goes well. But it’s in an area of the bike that gets a lot of filth and a lot of stress. The result of that, after a year or two of pedalling…

  • 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…