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April Update
Swim It was a hugely disappointing month with swimming. I’m not too sure what happened, but the swimming just seemed to get harder and the times got slower. I was over in Ireland for a week over Easter, and ended up not going at all. There were also lots of other events on that just […]
March Update
I’m very late adding a March update considering it’s almost the end of April now, but here goes: Swim The swimming is still improving (don’t read the April update when it comes out). I went 12 times during the month, and increased my best distance to 1500m without stopping, which is a huge improvement on […]
Lionheart Sportive – 22-Mar-2015
Sunday 22nd March saw me achieve a big goal in completing my first ever century ride at the Lionheart Sportive! It was chilly to start off with and a bit breezy at times, but overall I couldn’t have asked for a better day weather-wise. My longest ride this year was 111km last weekend around the […]
MongoDB for Java Developers – Done!
I’ve just completed the free online 7 week course provided by MongoDB University on ‘MongoDB for Java Developers’. I’ve done plenty of Computer Based Training (CBT) courses over my last 16 years in the IT industry. In general, I have found most of them to be a waste of time, with a handful that have […]
February Update
Overall, it’s turned out to be a great month training wise, and I feel in a much better place than just a couple of months ago. Going through in triathlon order: Swim I’ve made a real effort to go swimming 3 times a week, and it’s starting to pay off. I’m only swimming a total […]
Reality Check
The last few days have actually gone ok. I’ve been feeling under the weather and struggling with a cough, but I’ve still managed to get a few training sessions under the belt. The best news is that the swimming is starting to improve ever so slightly. At the beginning of December I was lucky to […]
One month down …
So the first month of Project 2015 has drawn to a close, so I figured it was time to take a very quick look back to see any signs of progress. Overall, it was a good month in terms of the goal. From a cycling perspective, I covered 549.3km in January. Looking at Veloviewer, this […]
Bluemix Demo
Today I gave a presentation and hands-on demonstration of IBM Bluemix. This had given me an opportunity to spend a number of hours over the past week or two trying to understand more about Bluemix, its relationship to Cloud Foundry, and the whole concept of Platform as a Service (PaaS). For me, PaaS is a […]
Zwift Beta
The Ant+ USB2 stick had arrived, so I couldn’t resist trying out the Zwift beta app on the turbo trainer. I only rode for 5 mins, and was wearing jeans and t-shirt at the time. It definitely made just a few minutes on the turbo more bearable. I now need to work out when to […]
MongoDB for Java Developers Week 2
Finished the week 2 of this online course a couple of days ago. I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised by the course. My experience of technical courses has not been great. All to often you end up being told what to write and where to put it in the code and that […]