Category: Triathlon

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Auckland ITU World Champs Preparation

~ Monday Oct. 15th – Ready to Go ~ We are all packed and ready to go on the biggest trip of our lives. Packing seems to have taken a while but we are now pretty much done and just want to go today, but we have one more day of work / school before...

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Beating Jetlag

One week to go until the biggest race of my life – The ITU World Triathlon Championships in Auckland, and I’m still here in wet, grey, dreary West Wales. I won’t actually get to Auckland until Thursday afternoon and the race is early on Monday morning so I only have a few days to adjust...

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Sponsors

With the World Triathlon Championships race fast approaching I wanted to say thanks and give some exposure to the companies, organisations and people who have sponsored and supported me financially. As you can imagine, training for, get to and competing in a World Championship event in New Zealand is an expensive undertaking. So, shortly after I qualified...

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Strava, Race Shape and other Strava Tools

I can’t quite remember if I’ve blogged about Strava.com before, but if not, I should have. It’s yet another website that allows you to upload your GPS data from cycling and running sessions. You can record this data on a GPS device such as my Garmin Forerunner 910XT or a GPS enabled Mobile such as...

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Team GB Photo Shoot

The number of locals who have qualified for places on Team GB for either the World Triathlon Championships or European Triathlon Championships keeps growing. All Age-Group athletes of course but due to the unprecedented number of us we got together last night on a windswept village green for a photo-shoot with the photographer from the...

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Bike Box Packing

I thought I’d better have a practise run packing my bike into my new BikeBox Alan – I wouldn’t want to try doing it half an hour before heading for the airport only to find I couldn’t fit it in! It was actually fairly easy to do I first marked the position of the saddle and various...

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It’s for Real!!!

The start lists for the ITU Age-Group Triathlon World Championships have been released on the ITU World Triathlon Series Website…. My names on the list, it really is real, I shall be competing in the World Championships in Auckland before too long! Scary hey! Here’s the proof (Click to enlarge): What’s more, I received the latest...

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Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon 2012 Photos

Well, the first ever Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon was a roaring success. I hope everyone had a good day. I’m sure the competitors won’t agree with me but I reckon helping to organise and marshall all day is actually harder work than when I’m racing. I’ve now uploaded the photos I’ve taken to the Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon...

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Stress Fracture – The last thing I needed right now!

I suppose it had to happen. If you ask Anna she’ll tell you that I always have something wrong with me before a race and it would seem as though the size /importance of the race is directly proportional to the severity of the injury. I haven’t done too badly this year, but I had shin...

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Vibram FiveFingers – First Impressions

Thanks to the kind people at TriBlogs and Vibram, I recently received a pair of Vibram FiveFingers so that I could use them and blog about them. You’ve probably seen Vibram FiveFingers before – they are the odd looking shoes with individual toes and they are developing a bit of a cult following amongst those...