Trimeta… what?
Kamila Valieva struggling in her free skate at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games Summary Hard training damages your body Training time at competition-specific intensities [more...]
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15 Important Things to Know About Covid-19; You Won’t Believe #11!
The World Health Organisation recently released a report after sending 25 international experts to China to analyse the situation regarding Covid-19, also known as Coronavirus. Here I attempt to summarise the important points in the report. [more...]
The Berlin Marathon Experiment
A training program lasting 8-weeks was written and followed, subject to the time constraints imposed on the subject with the aim of taking an over-the-hill, middle-aged, untrained male subject to a level of conditioning appropriate to completion of the Berlin marathon. [more...]
The Death Star Problem
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… TL;DR The Death Star was destroyed by a single catastrophic vulnerability Modern, centralised internet communications are [more...]
Explaining the Mass Start
With the Olympic Winter Games just around the corner in February, the winter season is already well under way. In the sport of speed skating, the first major qualifying event [more...]
Cities Beginning With B
This is the long-awaited update to a post I made in August of last year where I explained my situation to those who were interested. As one has come to expect from my life, [more...]
Imposter vs Turing
This feeling, often described as imposter syndrome, where a person is unable to internalise their own achievements despite evidence to the contrary is one which I perpetually feel [more...]
Setting Up Encrypted Email on OSX
It has recently come to my attention that strong cryptography, while readily available (and free) is not straightforward to use for most people. Someone really ought to build [more...]
Finish Line Cameras
Earlier today I was watching the live feed of one of speed skating’s regular “world cup” events – one of a series of races held throughout the skating [more...]
A Hong Kong Hike
This satellite photo of Hong Kong shows just how much of it is actually not-concrete More than a concrete jungle Despite being one of the densest cities in the world, with [more...]
Bad Advice Part 3: How To Buy A Camera
Photography’s a wonderful thing, and with the ubiquity of digital cameras, it has become more accessible to more people than ever before. Cameras are literally [more...]
Sochi Special: The Anatomy of a Race
We are now well past the halfway point in the speed skating competition, with only the one individual distance remaining for both ladies and men, then the team pursuits. True [more...]
Sochi Special: Timing Equipment
It was bound to happen sooner or later. There had already been races decided on meagre hundredths of a second, and now we have an example of a race which has been decided in [more...]
Sochi Special: It’s not about the suits
The golden suits of team Japan in 2010 unfortunately didn’t yield the correspondingly-coloured medals. I had intended to use this ‘day off’ from speed [more...]