Month: May 2012

  • Winner!

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    I won the Gloucester Triathlon today! I’ll write up a race report & grab some of Kim’s photos, but it was hot, breezy and a big, big effort. I swam ok (two-piece trisuit is a bit draggy without a wetsuit), hit the bike really hard & the short climbs even harder (knocked my chain off…

  • Llanelli Sprint Triathlon 2012 (report)

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    It was great to see so many Cardiff Triathletes on the Llanelli riviera yesterday, and even better to see them picking up so many trophies! Top day. The weather this year has already been far better for racing than the whole of last year. The wind even dropped to almost nothing and the north dock…

  • Whitford point multi-terrain race report (review?)

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    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…

  • Whitford Point

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    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…

  • Try-a-Tri 2012

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    I took photos at Cardiff Tri’s Try-a-Tri novice race yesterday morning. Everybody seemed to be having a lot of fun, and you can check out the photos in the Flickr set here.

  • Digging a new hole

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    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…