Month: April 2012
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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.
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European Tri Champs, coming up
It’s Tuesday. We’re all back at work after a nice Easter break. Next Tuesday I’m off to Israel! It’s my first A-race of the year, and a pretty big one at that. The European Triathlon Championships for us age-groupers (i.e. amateurs) is on the Friday and Saturday next week, in the sunny, hot and often…
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150-odd days in the life of an age grouper triathlete
I’ve been taking a photo a day of something training or racing related for the last 150 odd days and putting them up on Flickr as a bit of a 365 project. I started when I began preparing for the 2012 season, and as I train every day I thought I’d snap something as a…
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Swim drills & confounding the Garmin 910XT
The Garmin 910XT measures your indoor swim training distance by counting the lengths you swim. You tell it how long the pool is and it does the maths. It can get confused if you change stroke mid-length or don’t swim normal strokes. I tried it out with some sculling drills today and it was fine…