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BMC Froggatt guide free download

by Nick Smith 11th February 2010

Froggatt guidebook coverYes, the "long awaited" new guidebook from the BMC may soon be available!

No, honestly. It's nearly finished (apparently), and to prove it, the BMC have got a preview of the Gardom's Edge chapter as a free download on their website :)

The exciting news from my point of view is just how many photos I have in the new guidebook - the Gardom's chapter alone has 4 great shots - of Duz Walker, Luke Allen, Meilee Rafe and Hazel Robson.

And the finished guide? Should be available "in the Spring"... but you'll notice that they don't say which year...

Read more: Free Gardoms Edge download
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Celebrating 10 years of UKClimbing

by Nick Smith 29th June 2009

Today marks 10 years for Climbers.net doing all technical development on the most popular climbing website in the world, UKClimbing.com. Any large website is naturally a team effort, and UKC in 2009 is a far more professional affair, with top quality news, reviews & articles, well supported by... more

Running:

Starting hill training

by Nick Smith 22nd June 2009

Well I'm now just over 3 months away from the Nine Edges endurance race in September, and it is time to start doing some proper "training"! I've spent the last few months slowly building up some basic fitness, running 3-4 times most weeks, but without any particular plan. I think my biggest... more

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Using a Content Delivery Network

by Nick Smith 1st May 2009

UKClimbing.com has just started using a CDN for caching popular static content (mostly JPEG photos). In essence, this distributes our most popular images to Edge servers all over the world, so when you visit a UKC page, the HTML part of the page will load from our central server as normal, but the... more

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Great running in April

by Nick Smith 29th April 2009

This month has been one of my best ever for running :) I'm completely psyched for the Nine Edges endurance race in September, and I've been really ramping up my weekly mileage in preparation for it. In February I only ran 15 km, in March this was up to 88 km and April I ran 136 km (!) This is... more