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Posts from January 2008

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28 January 2008 @ 5pm

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Day 2 - Success!

Yes, Sunday was a bit of a success… I made it up to Enniskerry, and then returned via Bray and the coast road for a total of 55km… and felt god at the end of it! Considering this is really the start of my training, I’m pretty happy with that progress… I may extend my [...]


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26 January 2008 @ 1pm

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Day 1 - Failure

Oh well, it’s never easy…. the plan today was to head from here to Enniskerry, 25k away in the Dublin mountains. I thought 50k should be doable, even if it’s my first cycle of the year, but it wasn’t!
The biggest problem is that I went the wrong way… I most definately took the hilly route, [...]


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25 January 2008 @ 8pm

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A Challenge…

To me.
I’m fed up of my belly, and general lack of fitness, so I’m taking it to the next level. Come June 8th, I shall be taking part in the Wicklow 200. So, training is required, and shall be undertaken, and goddamn it I’m going to do it under 10 hours if at all possible!
Also, with N [...]


Damn it to buggery!

Turns out the pain is down to an inflamed gutty wut and, as I’m asthmatic, I can’t take the usual anti-inflammatories, which means paracetamol and not moving much are the order of the day. The downside of it is that I won’t be out on the bike today -something I am going to do a [...]


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17 January 2008 @ 9pm

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Busy Days…

The last two weeks have been pretty hectic…Had 2 of my finals last week, Databases went poor to ok -a big disappointment really, but it was a very tough exam, and had no past or sample papers to work from, so I suppose I did as well as I could given the circumstances.
Systems Integration went [...]