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What a privilege to compete in Millfield School pool, home of so many great British Olympians including our neighbour Pete Lepiniere. My results were more down to earth, a couple disappointing, a couple Ok including the 50m Breastroke sprint where I broke the South West Region age group record for that event. Long way to […]
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After the Aquabike events, I felt I was cheating by not finishing a race properly. So when Sue got into regular running with her friend I joined them a couple of times and thought 5km is manageable. Today I did the Ocean Triathlon Club Sept Sprint Tri at Leybourne. Thoroughly enjoyed it, legs a bit […]
Having done the standard distance Aquabike in June I moved up to Middle Distance. This is half ironman distance but not at all in the same league as the real ironman which includes the half or full distance marathon. The nice thing about Aqua is that when you rack the bike at the end of […]
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Having enjoyed my open water swim in the Thames on June 1, I was ready to TRI again! I found Aquathon. A triathlon without the run. Off to Ashford on June 15 for Tri-Spirit event. I did the standard distance 1.5k swim and 40k bike. Great venue. Lake temp 18 degrees and a lovely flat […]
After a couple of lake training sessions I took the plunge in the Thames at Windsor for the Human Race Windsor 3 Km Swim. Due to strong currents the route was changed to go around a small island making it very congested. 3 laps was actually 2.7Km but despite kicking, pulling and punching I got […]
Having rested up for months now and as I write this still suffering a week long cold, with a bad back thrown in for good measure, I am looking to the future. I miss my summer open water swims so I am looking forward to so more of that again soon. As a warm up […]
After 5 or so excellent years using IDNet as my broadband provider, I have today changed to BT Broadband. No dispute with IDNet but their download quota became too expensive for my needs. However, they very quickly responded to my request for early payment refunds, which they did in a matter of minutes. Well done […]
Well, we only averaged 10 mph for this event but that was due to my total lack of hill climbing ability. The course started at Gatwick village and took in flooded roads, hailstorms and gale force winds. It covered nearly 1000m of climbs including the ‘The Wall” or Kidd’s Hill. Although I was extremely slow, […]
Well, here we are after the summer excitement Christmas has come and almost gone. We decided to invite all the family and they stayed for 3 nights. 5 lovely grandsons, but put together rather lively. Foul stormy weather with local flooding kept them indoors for much of the time but we did get out when […]
With the biggest storm in years looming apparently this evening, today Stuart, Steve and myself did the annual KCA event. Strong winds behind us were great but the home run wasn’t so! We did it in 4hrs 32 mins which I could never have done on my own. However, back at the start there was […]
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