Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, it feels as though summer is coming to an end. There’s only a few days left of the school holidays, we’ve just had a fairly damp August Bank Holiday weekend and there are only 120 days until Christmas! We didn’t let the change in the weather dampen our spirits though and managed some family...
Morgan is still quite enthusiastic about his geocaching. He’s keen to go out in the morning to find a new geocache and is motivated by the thought of breaking records. Our consecutive days geocaching streak is now up to 17 and he wants to keep going. Of course, each day gets more difficult as we begin...
As I mentioned elsewhere, we’ve been doing a fair bit of geocaching lately. It started whilst we were away on holiday, we did a few at the beginning of August and in the process gained a couple of souvenirs towards the 7 Souvenirs of August challenge. We then aimed to get a few more souvenirs and before we...
I may have put on lots of weight and lost lots of fitness whilst cycling from John O’Groats to Lands End, but I thought it must have improved my long slow endurance riding. I also thought it would probably be a good thing to keep doing the odd long ride every so often just to...
Geocachers seem to like stats, milestones and collecting things. I know “it’s not about the numbers” but geocachers do like to keep a record of these things. So in addition to tracking the number of chaches you have found, the types of caches you have found, your furthest cache, North, East South or West, your...
After a couple of weeks away and therefore no beekeeping we were wondering how our bees had been faring as we drove home after our holiday. We didn’t quite get home though before the beekeeping began! As we drove out of Builth Wells about an hour from home, I had a phonecall from someone down the road...
Our family summer holiday moved into it’s next phase, following on from cycling to John O’Groats to Lands End and then a day or two on Bodmin Moor we were now at my parents house in South Gloucestershire for a couple of days. We arrived at around lunchtime on Wednesday afternoon and had arranged for...
Following our ‘sort of holiday’ whilst cycling from John O’Groats to Lands End, we had booked ourselves a proper family holiday for a couple of nights on Bodmin Moor. We were staying in a camping pod billed as a Hobbit Home, high up on the moor at Wheal Tor Hotel. The welcome there wasn’t the...
Daily Stats – Day 10 Miles Ridden: 45.0 miles Metres Climbed: 3078 feet Time Riding: 3:02:07 Average Speed: 14.8 mph Total Miles Ridden: 898 miles Total Ascent: 41,898 feet Total Time Riding: 58:49:29 Todays Weather: Sunny. Once again I was up at 4am so crept out of the dorm and went for a wander in...
Daily Stats – Day 9 Miles Ridden: 82.3 miles Metres Climbed: 5915 feet Time Riding: 5:49:20 Average Speed: 14.1 mph Total Miles Ridden: 853 miles Total Ascent: 38,820 feet Total Time Riding: 55:47:22 Todays Weather: Sunny. I woke up at 4am as per usual today so crept out of the dorm I was sharing with...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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