A collection of Fitness, Worship, Networking and Flying musings from the different areas of my life!

Ironman Copenhagen – Training Update – A long and windy road

A long and windy road! What have I been up to?! My last post was written in April, while I had Covid. While I tested positive for 10 days, thankfully I didn’t have too many days with symptoms and therefore was able to continue with some light indoor bike sessions towards the later stages of that 10day perdiod. Post-Covid Training The first few “proper” sessions post-Covid were harder work for the same effort, which I Read more…

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Ironman Copenhagen Training – How are we doing? – April 2022

It’s been a little over 6 months since my last blog post. I tested positive for Covid a few days ago, so this enforced mini-period of rest seems like a good opportunity for a brief recap on how the journey is progressing. Training plan One of the first tasks after booking my place was to research and find a training plan that would help get me from my current levels of fitness and ability to Read more…

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The start of my Ironman Journey

Yes, it’s true – I have entered a full Iron-distance event: Ironman Copenhagen 2022. If you are new to the site, my name is Anthony and I’m based in Maidstone, UK. I intend to document my journey along the way, to share my thoughts and experiences as my training progresses. But first, a little bit of back story to set the scene. My fitness journey started around January 2015 when I joined Beginners2Runners in Coxheath, Read more…

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Self-Hosted Streaming Server – NGINX + RTMP – YouTube + Facebook Live

I’m writing these notes up, mainly as a reference for me in the future – but they might just help others looking to do similar. Issue: During the Coronavirus season, our church, like many, ventured into the world of streaming services, primarily to YouTube but with an eye to multiplexing to both YouTube and Facebook at the same time. Initially, the plan was to stream from OBS Studio to an intermediate platform, restream.io We tested Read more…

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Bluetooth Foot Pedal for Onsong – an alternative to Airturn ?

Project History! The intention of this post is to serve as an aide-memoire for a little project I’ve been working on recently. From time to time, I lead worship at my church, and play acoustic guitar.  For song lyrics / chord charts I use a popular app on IOS called Onsong. A while ago I found an old guitar foot switch unit that started life belonging to a Marshall amp.  I took most of it’s Read more…

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8 more sleeps! We’re nearly there

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The lovely London Marathon page on Facebook today popped up to say there are 9 days to go!!!

The most fantastic way to start this update is to be able to say I have reached my Fundraising target and at the time of posting it stands at – £ 2127.65
I am truly humbled and blessed by the generosity that people have shown in supporting WaterAid in helping me reach this target. (more…)

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Counting down…as the miles go up!!

Having been a month since my last post, I figured it’s about time for a quick update. I took part in the Cancer Research ‘Winter Run’ on the 31st January.  It’s a popular 10k race starting in Trafalgar Square, and finishing along Whitehall. It was the first race of it’s size that I’ve taken part in, with around 15,000 people taking part. I really enjoyed it, especially as I finished in 53:32 which is about Read more…

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100 Days to Go – And Counting!

Eek!! So it seems I’ve hit the big 100 day countdown, and now it’s time to get serious! I started my formal training plan at the beginning of the year, but now its crunch time! So far, it seems to be going really well – running 3 – 4 times a week, with a longer run most Sundays! I’ve forcefully become acclimatised to arctic temperatures to run in – all included in the fun of being Read more…

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Running for WaterAid

I realised it would probably be helpful to share some of the background to why I am running the Marathon, who I will be running for and why. Why am I doing this ? I had the opportunity to go to Rwanda in 2005 and I have very clear memories from that trip of seeing people walking huge distances, carrying heavy water containers – on a daily basis.  Everyone appeared to have to go through Read more…

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Marathon Training plan choices?

I know there is a long way to go before April, but I figured I would start looking at choices for Training plans….and I’m glad I looked now. There are so many choices!  In fact, it’s quite bewildering how many variations there are.  Some focus on time-based runs, some on mileage, while others different again. So far for other training , I have been using the plan feature of the Asics website and I quite Read more…

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