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Ralltgoed MTB Ride

Alan Cole — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:42:48 +0000

A Stop-Start Winter for Thursday Night Rides Our Thursday night MTB rides have been a bit hit and miss so far this year. The dark nights, cold temperatures, and particularly the wet, windy conditions have kept enthusiasm low. One week it was just Lorraine and me; the following week I turned up and no one...

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Which Training and Analysis Apps Now That Strava is No Longer Free

Alan Cole — Thu, 21 May 2020 10:59:45 +0000

The fact that Strava have started to charge for more of their offerings than they have in the past has forced me to re-evaluate which apps I ‘need’ and which ones I don’t. Do I need to pay for TrainerRoad, Zwift, Training Peaks, Strava and other such apps? What does each one do and what...

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Testing New Wheels and Some PB’s

Alan Cole — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 06:25:41 +0000

It’s always difficult to do a proper test of new parts or new kit for the bike. There are always so many variables at play that it’s not easy to say for sure whether or not these things make a difference, especially when testing in the real world and especially when you don’t have a...

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Blueberry picking, Mountain Biking and Geocaching at Nant yr Arian

Alan Cole — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:22:43 +0000

The school holidays seem to be flying by and the list of things Morgan and I wanted to do during them has barely been touched. We’ve been busy with plenty of other things but thanks to all of this, we haven’t even started on the days of geocaching, mountain biking, surfing, kayaking, gardening, painting and...

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Strava Segment Hunting

Alan Cole — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:54:37 +0000

Hahahaha, Strava make me giggle sometimes! It’s been a while since I held the Strava KOM on the Borth Golf Course Straight segment, but it’s the closest segment to my house and, as Jon pointed out the other day, about time I attempted to regain it as he had been in the top spot since he...

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Strava, Race Shape and other Strava Tools

Alan Cole — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:13:30 +0000

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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The Pain of a Strava Segment

Alan Cole — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:33:21 +0000

I really shouldn’t have done it, I know I shouldn’t, but I couldn’t help myself. It was my second run after a few weeks off due to a knee injury so I should have been taking it easy. My training schedule had me down to do the following: Run: 60 min steady with 2x 6...

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A Brutal New Course Record

Alan Cole — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:48:41 +0000

Wow, that was quite a run, I was smashing records all over the place. Wednesday morning seems to be my day for a long hilly run. Not that long in comparison to what some people do, but long enough for me. As the nearest hills are about 4 miles from here, I tend to drive...

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GU Goodies

Alan Cole — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:16:34 +0000

Look what just came in the post. A whole pile of free GU Goodies courtesy of the fact that I completed a Strava Challenge. The GU 100,000 mile challenge ran from March 9th to April 9th, The challenge was to rack up as many miles as you could. “The more miles you ran, the more...

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Hardtail Loving

Alan Cole — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:53:29 +0000

It’s been a busy week so far this week and we feel as though we’ve barely had time to catch up after our weekend away. Today was just as busy. I started off the day with some website work on the computer, and then went out for a hard, 10 mile run. It wasn’t that...

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