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Olympics 2012 – are you going?

Posted by Techboy on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

You have until the 26th April to apply for tickets to the London Olympics. I’m going to apply for the: Opening ceremony Cycling (velodrome – mens finals) Triathlon Anyone (who knows me) want to go with me? If so, let me know because I’m going to buy the tickets soon (maybe this weekend). I don’t mind [...]

Trading with the Bulls

Posted by Techboy on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

I have always wanted to find an easy, quick gain, low risk – high reward entry into the stock market. Until recently that seemed impossible, but now I think I might have found it… I am a self-confessed geek (hence the nick-name ‘Techboy’ – which Steve Bush at Barclays Bank PLC originally gave me). Before [...]

Introductory Winter Mountaineering Course (February 2011) – Update on Costs

Posted by Techboy on Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

The worst part of going on holiday is planning them! In my previous post I detailed the projected costs of the travel for the mountaineering course that I’m going on. After literally quite a few hours of fiddling on www.thetrainline.com, various hotel companies (including www.lastminute.com, www.expedia.com. etc.) and www.quidco.com I have revised my travel plans to [...]

Things I’m working on right now

Posted by Techboy on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

This is a very brief update on things that I am working on right now Knee Injury: Since January I have had an injury with my left knee. This has resulted in me doing a lot less sport training and events than I would have liked I have had 2 sessions with a chiropractor at [...]

Decisions – Which New Mobile Phone Shall I Get?

Posted by Techboy on Friday, June 11th, 2010

I currently have an HTC HD (running Windows Mobile 6.1 OS) on the O2 network and my contact expires at the end of this month, which means that I can get a new phone. My preferences for a new phone fall into 3 categories: Android based, iPhone 4 and Windows Phone 7 based. Android I [...]

Archive for the ‘Adventure Racing’ Category

Questars – Race 2

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Last Saturday Dave, Steve and I entered the Questars Race 2 which was situated in Brecon, Wales. Steve has entered the whole series as a solo competitor and Dave and I entered just this one as a team. The weekend started off with us putting the bikes onto my car before heading off to the [...]

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Ace Race Series, Race 1 – Photos and Report

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

The organisers have finally uploaded the photographs and report from the event! The first photo (080515101914) on the page was actually the last photo taken of us. It was taken just after we crossed the line (and composed ourselves) at 4 hours and 58 minutes.

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Ace Race Round 1

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Last Saturday (10th May 2008) Dave, Steve and I entered the Ace Race event. This was the first race of a series of 3. The race started with a 5km run, then a bike section followed by a running section, then another bike section. During each of the stages we had to navigate (using an [...]