2013 JBST Tri-Camp

At the end of January, I returned to Club la Santa in Lanzarote for the JBST Triathlon Camp, hosted by Joe Beer and Dan Bullock of SwimForTri. The main aim for this camp was to get in some start-of-season training, and to get some swim analysis from Dan. Unfortunately, I arrived at the camp with…

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Bike Winter Rebuild

My bike is a fairly old Giant TCR1, which I bought back in 1998. At the time, the design was fairly revolutionary, being the first ‘compact’ bike frame, designed by Mike Burrows, who also designed Chris Boardman’s 1992 Olympic Gold Medal winning Lotus Type 108 ‘Superbike’. Over the years, I’ve upgraded quite a lot of the components on the…

Club la Santa Nov 2012

I’m just back from a week at Club la Santa in Lanzarote. This is my 6th or 7th stay here, and it’s one of my favourite places to train on this planet. The plan was for some end-of-session warm-weather training and to spectate at the Ironman 70.3 event. Over the time of our stay, I managed 5 bike rides and…

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YFCalendarView – iPad Calendar Framework

YFCalendarView is our open-source framework for a full-screen iPad calendar. It’s loosely based on the Mac calendar framework LRCalendar (which seems to have largely disappeared from the ‘net). It provides a full-screen monthly calendar, functionally similar to the iPad Calendar app ‘Month’ view. Download the latest code from our Github repository: http://github.com/tevendale/YFCalendar