Author: Alan Cole

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Valentines Treats

We don’t usually do much for Valentines Day as it’s all a bit of a money-grabbing exercise really. This year, just for a change, I decided to be a little more romantic than usual and so stopped off in the shops on my way home from my Coast Path Run on Saturday morning and went...

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Llwyngwril to Talybont Coast Path Run

Coast Path Vital Stats Llywngwril to Talybont Distance: 14.53 miles Elevation Gain Today: 454m Highest Elevation: 313m Time: 2:26:58 Av. Pace: 10:07 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: Max Heart Rate: Calories: 1583 Totals to Date Total Distance Completed: 77.27 miles Total Time: 13:34:56 Total Elevation Gain: 2904m Total Calories: 8067 Distance to go: 801 miles The plan for Saturday’s Coast...

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Garmin Fenix 3 Phantom Activities Fix

Recent updates to the Garmin Fenix 3 seem to have introduced some annoying bugs for me and many others. One of the most annoying of these is the addition of loads of ‘phantom activities’ to Garmin connect, and therefore any other tracking services that use Garmin Connect as it’s source. For me, this manifests itself...

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Booster Bars

I’m sure that even being packed full of seeds and fruit that these ‘Booster Bars’ aren’t good for you. Somehow, I think the masses of butter, sugar, peanut butter and honey kind of override any goodness from the seeds. And if we’re counting calories then things don’t get much more calorie dense than this. Very...

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Storm Imogen

Storm Imogen has been raging all day. We knew it was coming and the winds and rains started last night, they soon reached the stage where we could no longer hear the TV over the noise of the storm so we retired to bed hoping for the best, having had various flood warnings. We’ve had...

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Fruity Feet

New toenails for me – Strawberries this time to give me fruity feet. Painted by Anna of course.

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Aberdovey to Llwyngwril Coast Path Run

Coast Path Vital Stats Aberdovey to Llywngwril Distance: 14.12 miles Elevation Gain Today: 389m Highest Elevation: 174m Time: 2:25:13 Av. Pace: 10:17 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 127bpm Max Heart Rate: 154bpm Calories: 1311 Totals to Date Total Distance Completed: 62.74 miles Total Time: 11:07:58 Total Elevation Gain: 2591m Total Calories: 6484 Distance to go: 813 miles Another weekend and...

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Big Garden Birdwatch

We had an extra incentive to do the Big Garden Birdwatch this year: points for the Green Impact Scheme. The Green Impact Scheme is an NUS run scheme that the University take part in aimed at reducing waste, improving efficiency and general saving the planet. I mentioned it a while back when we did the...

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Sunday Morning Social Ride

Seeing as I can’t swim at the moment and therefore don’t go to the pool after my early morning Sunday bike ride, I thought I’d try for a Sunday morning social ride instead. There are a few groups that ride around here on a Sunday morning so rather than leave the house at 5:30am and...