Author: Alan Cole

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Aliums

The Aliums are putting on a good show in the sunshine – A Purple Sensation next to the conservatory.

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Big Cow 2012 Photos

I’m not sure if there was an official race photographer at the Big Cow Triathlon on Sunday. Anna took one or two photos of me though which I added to my race report as did my Dad so here are a few of his photos from the event.  

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Olympic Torch Relay

We managed to miss out on all of the Olympic Torch Relay festivities in Aberystwyth over the weekend as we were away in Northampton for me to compete in the Big Cow Triathlon, but fortunately it was passing close to us on Monday morning. The roads to school were going o be disrupted so the...

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Big Cow Triathlon 2012 – Race Report

May 27th 2012, Big Cow Triathlon, one of my ‘A Priority’ races this year and something I’d been working hard towards for months. I’m still relatively new to this triathlon malarky having only started last year and this was my first big, higher profile race. Not only were there close to 1000 competitors, many more...

Final Race Prep – Trip to A&E Wasn’t in the Plan 4

Final Race Prep – Trip to A&E Wasn’t in the Plan

Those of you who know me or read this blog regularly will know that I’ve been training hard for triathlons this year. The weekend just gone was the first  of two big races I had planned so everything had been gearing up ready for the weekend. Training had been going well, I’d put in the hard work,...

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Sea Mist

Although everyone else has been basking in sunshine all day, we haven’t seen even a glimmer of it here. You only have to go about 1/4 mile inland though and it is wall to wall sunshine. Come on sea mist back to sea with you we want some sun. It’s only manage to get to...

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Race Preparations

I’ve got a triathlon coming up at the weekend, the first of my ‘big’ races this year. It’s not big in terms of distance as it is still a sprint distance triathlon, but it is a higher profile event with considerably more entrants than the previous races I;ve done. The entrants are also on a...

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Apiary Antics

After successfully performing artificial swarms for the first time in our beekeeping careers last weekend, this weekend we had to return to the hives to continue the process. Although we had divided the colonies between two hives to produced a parent colony and a swarmed colony, the next step was to move the hive containing the...

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A Jubilee Quest

As Scout & Explorer leaders for Borth 2nd Scouts Anna and I seem to be busy organising things for them to do all the time. The latest is a treasure hunt that we’re calling the ‘Jubilee Quest’ that will have to keep over one hundred of the local Cubs, Scouts and Explorers occuped for an...

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Bee Garden

At last, the weather has changed and the sun has come out. The temperature even got into double figures today, although according to the weather station it did only hit 14.6°C. It’s supposed to be nice all week as well and will make it into the high teens temperature wise. I managed to spend a...