Year: 2013

  • Swansea Health Solutions supporting me in 2013

    Swansea Health Solutions will be supporting me again in my triathlon season for 2013. If you follow this blog you’ll know that Gareth has kept me together physically for 4 or 5 years now, and one of the main reasons I can train the way I do is because of the way that he looks…

  • How’s the training going?

    It’s ticking along steadily, thanks for asking. I’ve just finished an early base block with some early season testing at the end of it. My cycling legs are coming back after a prolonged period of swimming and running, swimming is going well after paying some high volume attention to it when my shoulder recovered in…

  • Microsoft Surface & websites

        I’ve been using Microsoft’s Surface tablet for a little while now, running the Windows RT version of the Windows 8 operating system. It’s a lovely device, and the cloud integration with Microsoft documents and applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) is great. Having a proper file system back on a tablet device is a nice…

  • Gastrointestinal embryology lecture – quiz results

    I’m giving the next lecture in the embryology series on Monday and I’m mindful that we had a couple of issues with previous quizzes and live results. Let’s add up the scores from the gastrointestinal embryology quiz now: Q1 – girls 86pts, boys 89pts Q2 – girls 50pts, boys 86pts Q3 – girls 18pts, boys…

  • 2012 training totals

      I just realised, while out on a nice 3 hour ride around the Cotswolds, that in 2012 I’ve relied on a single source of nutrition for exercise. I’ve been sponsored by BBI Healthcare this year and their GlucoJuice and GlucoTabs ranges. They’re simple, dextrose based energy sources. One is a liquid and the other…