Category: Sports

Aber Falls 1

Mountain Training

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m supposed to be doing the Original Mountain Marathon (OMM) next weekend. It’s Lawrence’s fault as he suggested it, but since he did so, we’ve had little chance to get out ‘training’ together. We’ve been preparing in other ways, buying kit, practise packing, testing dehydrated meals and such like, but for...

Looking down on Nolton Haven 1

Wales Coast Path Run – Marloes Bay to Newgale

Coast Path Vital Stats Marloes to Newgale Distance: 15.19 miles Elevation Gain Today: 724m Highest Elevation: 87m Time: 2:46:55 Av. Pace: 10:59 mins/mile Calories: 11752 Totals to Date Total Distance: 983.83 miles Total Time: 184:30:24 Total Elevation Gain: 29785m Total Calories: 93844 Distance to go: 116 miles After a successful Coast Path run last week...

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Wales Coast Path Run – Dale to Marloes

Coast Path Vital Stats Dale to Marloes Distance: 12.48 miles Elevation Gain Today: 520m Highest Elevation: 62m Time: 2:25:47 Av. Pace: 11:41 mins/mile Calories: 1430 Totals to Date Total Distance: 968.64 miles Total Time: 181:43:29 Total Elevation Gain: 29061m Total Calories: 92092 Distance to go: 128 miles Having had a couple of nice days driving...

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Epic Surf Session

After an awesome day in the hills on Sunday morning, I was back home by around 2:30 pm and the surf was going off!! It was warm, the sun was shining and the waves were pumping. What better way to cool off after a run in the hills than jumping in the surf for what...

Lyn Idwal and Lyn Ogwen 2

More Welsh 3000s

I finished my blog post about a walk in the Carneddau Hills with Rhys last Wednesday by saying: I can’t wait for the next adventure in the hills now. Summer is supposed to return for the weekend, so I’m half tempted to head back up to tick off a couple more of the Welsh 3000’s....

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Summer Returns

After a week or so of decidedly autumnal weather summer has returned. Temperatures were back up into the low 20’s the sun was shining and there was no wind at all… Typical seeing as it was the Boardwsie Demo Day at Aberdyfi! No wind means no chance to try out some new kit and no...

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A few more Photos from the Carneddau

Rhys has just sent me some photos from our walk on Wednesday So, here’s a few more photos from the Carneddau.

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Carneddau Summits in the Wind

I had a day’s annual leave on Wednesday so that Rhys and I could head into the hills of North Wales for a walk. It had been windy enough for windsurfing the day before and the wind showed no signs of easing today either, but that wasn’t about to stop us! Anna had taken a...

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The fastest way to Aberdyfi

Autumn is here and I’ve just got back from a nice windsurf session courtesy of some autumnal winds. It’s definitely beginning to feel a little cooler out there and the conditions are feeling less like summer, despite the sunshine. The winds were dead Westerly. So, my initial plan had been to wait until around 1:30pm...

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Mini Windsurf Session

Well, it wasn’t the best of sessions on Tuesday afternoon, but the sun was shining, and it looked windy so I gave it a go. I started with my 5m sail and smaller wave board but there was nowhere near enough wind. I therefore rigged the 5.7m sail and larger freestyle wave board, but by...