Xmas Lights
The lights are up, so here’s the obligatory shot of the tree… Xmas is coming!!!
Author: Alan Cole
Let the Xmas Celebrations Begin
With only 2 weeks to go until Christmas Eve, we’ve just returned from a weekend away in Bristol and the first of our Christmas celebrations. The weekend started when school finished on Friday and we started our drive to my parents house. It was my Mum’s 60th birthday so we were meeting up with all...
Running in my Vibram FiveFingers
I’ve been using the Vibram FiveFingers I was given a little bit since I’ve been back from New Zealand and I think I like them! As I’ve said before you need to start off slowly with such things and do some short runs in them at first and then gradually build the volume and intensity of your...
Back on the Water – Windsurfing at Ynyslas
Well, after a day in the hills on Sunday and my first mountain bike ride for ages, it was time to go windsurfing for the first time in months too. Most people who know me will know that I ‘usually’ windsurf pretty much anytime there’s wind which here means most days of the year! However,...
New World Speed Sailing Record
It may not be a windsurfer, but it’s not a kite-surfer either. All the same, it’s a pretty impressive feat with some ridiculous speeds that have completely blown the chances of the windsurfers and kite-surfers out of the water. In fact with a speed of 65.37 knots (average over 500m) it’s not only a new World Record...
MTBing at Nant yr Arian
Its been a while since I’ve been properly Mountain Biking – So long in fact that when I got my bike out yesterday it still had the race number on it from a race I did back in August – The CRC MTB Marathon in Abergavenny. It was therefore nice to get out for a little spin...
Dinosaurs in da House
Morgan got his kid wood construction set out the other day and with a little bit of help from Anna they soon built a pretty impressive looking T-Rex. It’ll live with the Pterodactyl that he and I built earlier in the year. Hope you like it. In this photo you can even see what Morgan thinks are...
All Ready for Advent
Hooray, Christmas is coming and we’re all ready for advent with our advent calendars on the table and ready to be opened tomorrow. Anna’s is the Hotel Chocolate one, Morgans the really cool Lego one and mine is the Octonauts (whatever they are) one! Morgan has had a Lego advent calendar a few times now...
TrainerRoad and a Tacx Flow – I’ve got the Power!
Training with power on the bike is the most effective way of measuring your performance. It’s the only really consistent way to measure your progress (or lack of) and the only real way to produce repeatable workouts regardless of conditions, terrain or your frame of mind. Unfortunately a power meter is still fairly expensive with...
Triathlons 2012 – My Year in Review
Seeing as I wrote a year in review for 2011 I thought I’d better do it for 2012 as well. 2012 was really my first full year training for and competing in triathlons, and what a year it was. I now had a coach, all the gear and was a man with a plan –...
