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Photos at Midday

I know that for the best light you should really take photos early in the morning or in the evening, but at this time of year at these latitudes there can even be some fairly rich light at midday. I just wandered over to the beach for some fresh air. There wasn’t much going on...

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More Garden Birds

In my continuing attempt to photograph all of the species of birds in our garden, here are a couple of the often overlooked Starling and one of some Canada Geese flying overhead.

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Biking in the Real World

I haven’t really been out on my bike in the ‘Real World’ for a while. I’ve been on the turbo trainer quite a bit recently and I’ve had one or two little rides in the snow, but nothing proper and nothing on my Commencal Meta 5.5 since replacing lots of bits on it. I wanted...

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Snow Disruption in the UK

I like the snow, and I even, to a certain extent, like the disruption it causes here in the UK. It may be a little convenient for a while, but things soon get back to normal and it’s good to know that the Forces-of-Nature can best us now and then. Lots of people complain about...

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Group Turbo Trainer Workout

My fitness drive continues and last night I went to some training sessions with the Cerist Triathlon Club in Machynlleth. I used to do Triathlons years ago… I think it is probably close to 20 years since I’ve done one though and things have changed quite a bit since then. My fitness levels have decreased...

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Mountain Biking in the Snow

It was a silly idea in the first place, but we hadn’t been out on our mountain bikes for a while so Dan, Dave, Martyn and myself met up at Nant yr Arian last night for a ride in the snow. To be honest it wasn’t that much of a ride as we only covered...

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MTB Race Calendar 2010

Despite the amount of snow on the ground its time to start thinking about which MTB races I’m going to do this year. I don’t do them that seriously as I’m not that good, but ‘competing’ in them is always fun and it gives me something to aim towards. I’m not sure which ones I’ll...

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PWC170 Test

I’ve just done another PWC170 test on my turbo trainer. Hopefully this one is more accurate as well as the first one I did allowed me to find the Power Outputs that I should be working at to provide workrates of 120-140 bpm for the first 6 minute effort and 150-170bpm for the second 6...

Too much for one day? 3

Too much for one day?

It’s going to be a busy day today. Despite having my car serviced and MOT’d just before Christmas, on Christmas eve it decided to break-down meaning I needed the recovery service to come out to meet me in Morissons car park so that I could get home for Christmas. Since then its been sat on...

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1 minute intervals on Turbo Trainer

I can’t get enough of these! I did my 1 minute intervals workout on the turbo trainer yesterday. Once again, I did them at 350 Watts the same as I did last week. Unsurprisingly the heart rate graph is almost identical. It’s good to see how closely I can replicate a workout though as that...