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Well, it's a foul day outside, back to the weather we know and love so well in the Lakes! Training for 2012s triathlons going well - although only 3 weeks in so still breaking into a new season gently. If you fancy a go at a multi sport race next year, let me know - I may be able to help. You only need between 5 and 15 hours a week to train! Mostly training indoors at the moment which gives good specific sessions but does get a bit tedious after a while. Oh well, only 6 months before the sun comes out again! I've also run a couple of really successful navigation courses over the last few weeks, including a couple of night nav sessions on Loughrigg Fell. Good luck to all the folk that now have The Knowledge, and hopefully you'll never get lost again (or if you do, you now know what to do!) - and I don't mean phone me at 3 in the morning wanting to know how to get off of Scafell Pike! On that note I thought it might be an idea to put together a set of posts over the next few months covering some of the stuff that I include on nav weekends - I reckon there's loads of folk that go on to the hill who don't really know how to read a map or use a compass; some I guess are lucky and others end up being rescued. Shame on you. If you go on to the hill you should be able to navigate. And that doesn't mean turning on a gizmo, that means with a piece of paper and a magnetised needle! So, stand by for Navigation For Beginners, a complete course in 85 weekly parts, starting from the very beginning, a very good place to start.