Category: Fitness

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Newtown Triathlon – Race Report

My first race of the season, and I’d picked a fairly local, fairly low key event in the form of the Newtown Triathlon to get things started. With only about 60 places available in the race it was never going to be hugely competitive and would therefore hopefully allow me to get a bit of...

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Pre-Race Tinkering

With my first race of the year tomorrow, now probably isn’t the most sensible time to perform open-freehub surgery on my bike. It’s too late though, pre-race tinkering is what I’ve been doing! The rear wheel and more specifically the amount of drag in the rear wheel has been annoying me for ages. I’ve tried,...

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Hill Reps on the Roman Steps

Another good day’s training under my belt on Sunday with yet more hill reps. For the last few weeks my Sunday morning run session has consisted of hill reps. I have usually been doing these on the Caer Gybi Climb just outside Machynlleth, but also did some on week on the Climb up the to National...

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Best 10K Effort

Well, I wasn’t expecting that… I’ve just been out for a run and I started off at a fairly decent pace and just kept going. I ended up posting my best 10K time since I started back with this running malarky. The last time I tried a proper 10k effort I was aiming for 40 minutes...

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A Week of Triathlon Training

I haven’t written much about my triathlon training lately… Not because I haven’t been doing any but mainly because I haven’t had time to fit much blogging in. What with my new job in the Sports and Exercise Department at the University (something else I need to blog about), some painting and decorating jobs that...

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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT

As many of you may know, I’ve had numerous problems with the altimeter on my Forerunner 910XT. Since lusting after the Forerunner 910XT back in October 2011, I bought one in February 2012. I then wrote a glowing report on the Forerunner 910XT with my first impressions  – it did just about everything I wanted it...

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An Active Sunday

Sunday was set to be fairly busy day. I started with my usual run and swim in Machynlleth. My training is stepping up a notch at the moment, with slightly less volume but a little more intensity as I move from Base Training into a Strength and Endurance Phase. That meant hill reps on my...

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Velodrome Training for JOGLE

I’m going to be cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End (JOGLE) later in the year raising money for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Limited.. You can sponsor me here. I’ll be writing more about it over the coming weeks once I’ve had chance to take a proper look at the route myself and start working...

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Hills in the Real World

Well, that was a bit of a shock to the system. I replied to a thread on Facebook the other day about cycling and how most people loathe the Turbo Trainer saying that I actually quite like mine. I said something along the lines of It’s more time efficient There’s less to set up and...

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The Return of Jobs

I may be an Apple Fan Boy but I’m not referring to the return of Steve Jobs, I’m actually talking about a TrainerRoad workout called ‘Jobs’. It’s one I tried on January 23rd and came away from it annoyed as I didn’t manage to complete it. In fact I came nowhere near. The workout only consists of...