Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Offa’s Dyke Vital Stats Hay-on-Wye to Pandy Distance: 16.20 miles Elevation Gain Today: 763m Highest Elevation: 704m Time: 2:52:56 Av. Pace: 10:40mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 132bpm Max Heart Rate: 160bpm Calories: 1424 Totals to Date Total Distance: 595.31 miles Total Time: 111:06:48 Total Elevation Gain: 18721m Total Calories: 54607 Kcal Distance to go: 35 miles After...
I’m all about maximising Time on the Wave (TOW). Usually TOW stands for Time on Water and you all know that I already do that. Surfing, Windsurfing, Kitesurfing, Swimming, Kayaking, Surf Skiing, Canoeing, Stand-up-Paddle boarding have all got me out on the water as much as I possibly can whatever the weather. The conditions are...
How’s this for a spoilt cat? A room to herself with a view of the garden Personal enclosed litter tray Scratching post Multi-tier faux-fur cat tree thingy Cat toys on the window-sill A Lazy, sunny afternoon A comfy sofa to stretch out on And no, the trophies and medals aren’t the cats, they’re mine!!
Another good surf ski session here today. The surf wasn’t quite as big as I had hoped but there was still plenty to play in. No intervals No targets to meet No hard efforts No marginal gains Just fun and games I can’t be bothered to edit video now either and didn’t get that much anyway as...
Time for a MTB race – well, a non-competitive, mass start MTB personal challenge really! After being asked to race for Scimitar Endurance I felt as though I should at least enter a few of the races that the others in the team were doing. Chris was signed up to do the 1st in the series...
I missed out on the Colwyn Bay Surf Ski races today. I could have gone, but it’s a 2 hour drive each way to North Wales. I’m supposed to be driving south tomorrow to Builth Wells so I decided it was best to save some diesel and stay at home. My back has been sore...
A few photos from a walk in the dunes with Morgan. We were going to walk into Borth for ice creams, but my back was still sore and Morgan would rather spend as little time as possible outside so we kept it short. I’d been out in the garden replacing some wooden edging around the...
I do often wonder what things would be like if I didn’t do quite so much training each week. It’s takes up quite a lot of time, usually about 15 hours a week. I’m not training seriously at the moment but trying to fit in several swim, kayak, bike and run sessions a week, along...
When we built our house here one of the reasons for picking Ynyslas was that it was the windiest place we knew of and was therefore windsurf perfection. I spent most of my time on the beach here windsurfing so it made sense to build a house here as well. Anna could at least chill...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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