Sitting in bed in the flat with Gemma, after quite a hard day - not so much at work, as getting to work (1:40 min commute each way these days, including a freezing train journey in today, not to mention a few minutes walking around in the bitter cold that were genuinely quite painful ( Read more... )

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Goodbye, PlayOnline ( Read more... )

The council have started our private Saturday-night fireworks shows again (that is, they let off fireworks on the seafront, directly in front of our window ( Read more... )

Running times ( Read more... )

Running times from Saturday ( Read more... )

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Running times ( Read more... )

Official splits:

PosRaceNrWaveNameSwimT1BikeLap1BikeLap2BikeLap3 BikeLap4BikeT2RunLap1RunLap2RunLap3RunLap4RunTotal

9110094SAT4A SHORE THING00:26:5600:03:0300:18:0000:17:3400:17:0100:18:26 01:11:0000:02:3700:13:1500:13:0200:13:1800:12:24 00:51:5702:35:30

Further research reveals that according to the organisers, the bike was 42k and the run was 10.4k (making my average mile almost exactly 8 minutes, which I'm happy with). We came a respectable 91st out of 417 teams, although I was correct in my assumption that almost all of the runners were faster than me - you have to get down into the lower third ( Read more... )