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Beach break live in pembrey

Seems as if it went very well after all and even locals close to pembrey country park give it the big thumbs up, despite local worries in the build up. Those who live in garreglwyd seems to agree it was good for the area.

I was open minded about it unlike the local councillors (who often express views not in people’s best interests, more like their own). I am positive about most young people today, and to give them every chance, we all make mistakes and its part of growing up.

One pub/cafe by the station made more in a week than he probable does in 6 months, he was open all day and may help him survive. Also, i did see local business benefitting and spoke to them about it. Yes, there were those who didnt get work, and i feel very sorry for them but there were local coaches and buses there too, as well as outside coaches. So there must have been some contracts put out there for tender under fair competition rules. Dont know the ins and outs so don’t me down!

Its easy for us to be negative but quite hard to be positive at times. Well done to the organisers, well done to all the students on their excellent behaviour and sense of fun and hope you come back next year. There were 14 arrests unfortunately but apparently they were local people.

Twitt
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Using the great outdoors-Pembrey country park!!!!!!!

Nice to see some of my comments have caused some interest from yesterday anyway!

I try to be open minded and if pembrey country park is left in a bad way after the festival, i will be the first to complain!

With this festival closing the doors  to the country park this week, we really should appreciate it that much more from now on shouldn’t we? And the entire coastline when you think about it.

Jean for instance is well known to use the coastal path and beyond in her training, she swears by it and is pretty annoyed its closed this week (the country park)!

If you don’t use the great outdoors, such as the country park regularly, then shouldn’t you start using it a lot more, not only to enjoy the scenery but to do a whole range of workouts?

You have some great running conditions on the hard sand on the beach, i used to use this for my marathon training and usually do 12 miles every friday. From the car park on the left as you go in all the way to the bombing rane should make sure you get around 1 hour 40 minutes of running in, you can run so far down before you notice all the tornado’s coming overhead!! This is a sign to turn back as well as all the signs and barbed wire of course!!

There are great cycle routes there too, all the way around the park and its so vast that sometimes you can get lost, as even i have done several times! I would start off on shorter conservative routes to begin with, and be more adventerous from there as it can take a long time to know the park, and i don’t think anyone gets to know it all down there!

There are also various hills you can sprint up, from hills in the heavily wooded area, to a crazy hill on the right hand side of the ski slope, that jean herself remembers well, this takes some kind of effort i can tell you, and you be a very good barometer on your fitness!!

There are lots of park benches too you can do press ups, step ups and arm dips on and the point of all of this is to state that this is a magnificent place not only to walk, but to get some hardcore workouts in too.

This week’s closure makes me appreciate it all the more, i can’t wait to get down there and experience all its riches from now on!!

Twitt
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Small time thinking?

I saw thousands of visitors arriving for the Beach Break live festival down pembrey country park earlier, and what a welcome sight they were!

This is bringing a lot of money into a community that has been particularly hard hit by the recession, and many pubs and taxi’s were seen up to their eyes with work earlier, this can only be a good thing because these businesses are either not even open or have little trade during this time. There are not many sustainable businesses in burry port, and this should be a welcome boost for them, despite all the negative comments they have issued in the press!

It always makes me laugh when some small town thinkers think that pembrey is doomed to be a place of sex, drugs and violence this week because of the festival, well ive got news for you, it is being run by a highly professional organisation who have done many such events in the past, and its nice to see a high police presence, sadly lacking in burry port usually. And the funniest thing is, anyone who lives in burry port/pembrey is well aware of the sex, drugs, booze, violence that goes on EVERY weekend here anyway!

My guess is that the event will be run very well, the economy will benefit hugely and the youngsters attending will have  fun and entertaining time, what’s wrong with that?

Some people have the same small time thinking to their training, there is only one way to do things, there is a certain amount of time they need to train for, there are only certain movements or exercises they should do etc etc. The lack of variety in one’s training can seriously halt or push back your progress, just because you’re not prepared to do different things from time to time.

If you read through these pages, its encouraged you do different things, i do encourage putting firm foundations down, but this should be supported by varied activities which should also be fun. You should be getting more than sweat out of your workouts, you should be invigorated, energised and totally enthused about your week of training.

It helps too if you live by the coast, which many of you so lets get out there and use the coastal attractions, come on let’s really get out there and do it!!!

Please don’t do the SAME OLD routines every week, train inside AND outside, you will absolutely love it when you get all that fresh air down you, you don’t have to train in front of everyone and nobody likes an audience!

Its a nice week coming up so let’s walk the talk and do it, change it every couple of weeks and show how imaginative you can be, you are literally limited only by your imagination so lets do it!!

Twitt