29 Mar 2024
Endurance

Brighton Marathon 2021 

After a year of pretty much no races, the time had finally arrived to be back marathon racing. Manchester was the intended race, but after that was postponed, and I was unable to go on the new date, I booked a place on the Brighton…

Endurance

Cheshire Half Marathon 2020 

With most of 2020 being a complete right off, it meant I could knuckle down and get plenty of good training in. Races should have been on the cards with Manchester marathon, Holkham triathlon and Valencia marathon being the main goals. However, like most events…

Endurance

Helvellyn 

Hannah and I were due to get married on the 29th August and were supposed to be spending two weeks hiking around Canada. Then the coronavirus happened and all our plans went out the window. Instead of sitting home doing nothing, we decided to take…

Endurance

Malaga Marathon 2019 

All the training these last few months had been leading up to one goal – to run a sub-3-hour marathon in the Malaga marathon. The training had been going great, and with a 1:22 in the Tatton Half, I felt like I had a great…

Endurance

Run Tatton Half Marathon 2019 

It’s been a while since my last run event, with the Chester half being back in May. With my marathon training now in full swing for Malaga, I was going to treat this as a fast training run. I had no real goal time in…

Programming

Property Wrappers 

First introduced in Swift 5.1, property wrappers allow us devs to add our own implementation details to a property before they are initialized. Currently, by delaying initialization we can declare a property as lazy, and then return our property when it’s first requested. Property wrappers…

Endurance

Shropshire Triathlon 2019 

A step up was on the cards for this race, as this would be my first shot at an Olympic distance triathlon after my sprint distance race that I did back in April. I did not have the best prep going into the race, as…

Programming

Running Xcode Tests from CI 

The ability to run a suite of tests is a great way to cut down on manual testing time, whilst still having the knowledge that any new changes have not broken the codebase. There are a number of different options when it comes to writing…