Author: Alan Cole

Back to it… Almost 0

Back to it… Almost

After an enforced break from triathlon training last week in preparation for a CPK Levels blood test on Tuesday, I was immediately back to it and raring to go. Tuesday Straight after the blood-letting at the hospital it time for an hour or hard core circuit training followed by an hour of swimfit. Wednesday Wednesday...

Doctor Who Tardis Animation 2

Doctor Who Tardis Animation

It’s half term again so Morgan is at home with me. That means an early start for me so that I can get work done and out of the way before Morgan gets out of bed, giving me plenty of time to keep him entertained. This mornings entertainment was a trip to the hospital for...

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Our Weblog Book 2010

Phew, that’s Volume 2 (July – December) of our 2010 weblog book ready for print as well. After hundreds of hours of work laying it all out in a desktop publishing application, importing photos proof-reading and proof-reading again, creating a DVD of video clips to accompany it and then exporting each volume as a pdf...

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700 Pages of Full Colour Glossy Memories

I wouldn’t like to say how long I’ve spent on it – hundreds of hours probably – but I’ve almost finished the printed version of our ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ weblog book for from 2010. The 2009 edition was 440 pages long and looks glorious, but the 2010 version should top that. It will be...

Stores for Winter – Beekeeping Season Starts Again 0

Stores for Winter – Beekeeping Season Starts Again

After to big freeze of last year, the winter of 2011-2012 has been fairly mild. So what does this mean for our honey bees? Well, we had a check on our three hives this winter and things don’t look too bad. It’s difficult to know if bees consume more food in warm winters than in...

Triathlons, Statins and CPK Levels 4

Triathlons, Statins and CPK Levels

Triathlon Training I’m taking my triathlon training a little more seriously this year. I’ve been following a sensible training plan and have just about finished a winter ‘Base Phase’ of training. With my coach we’d been gradually increasing the volume of training over the past couple of months and I’m now just beginning to increase...

So much for Spring 0

So much for Spring

It’s been freezing out there today. The temperature only rose to 2°C, but Ivor our local katabatic wind was blowing his socks off all day long. 30-35 knots in the estuary, making it feel bitterly cold out there. So much for my post about the first flowers of spring, it’s now well and truly back...

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The First Flowers of Spring

We may have had some of the coldest temperatures of the winter last week, and the rest of the UK is currently under a blanket of snow and ice, but not so here in West Wales. The temperature hasn’t got anywhere near freezing today, there hasn’t been any snow in sight and even that on...

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Climbing Wall Party

It was one of Morgan’s best friends birthday parties at the weekend. Kids birthday parties here seem to be fairly active affairs. The main options seem to be a swimming party, a ‘soft-play’ party, a cinema party or a climbing wall party. This one was at the climbing wall at the University followed by a...

Cool Running 0

Cool Running

My training plan today had me doing a 70 minute hilly run, the longest I’ve ran for in a number of years. Now, it isn’t very hilly here on the coast at Ynyslas so I drive into Tre-Ddol and started my run there. Temperatures were sub-zero so I wrapped up with running tights, thermal top,...