Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Despite our wishes we don’t have a greenhouse yet so we’ve been making the most of the conservatory that we had built last year and have been raising some seedlings on the window-sills this Spring. The courgettes are coming on strong, as are some of the beans that we kept over from last years beans....
My never ending quest to get faster feet continues. It worked quite well with my recent purchase of some new race shoes for running. A few days after buying them I wore them for the first time in a race and put in a massive personal best for a 5km run. So, with that success...
Summer must be on its way – I went for my first proper open water swim of the year today. Now, usually by this time of the year I’ve been in the sea loads either windsurfing or surfing, but as there hasn’t been much wind lately and the surf seems to have coincided with days...
Easter was upon us and for us that means Easter Egg hunts and chocolate. Morgan didn’t get up too early, but when he did, the Easter Bunny had been and had left a trail of clues for him. It was nice that for the first year he was able to read them completely by himself and soon...
It’s been like winter all week with sub-zero temperatures and a cold northerly breeze, there was a small window of summer last week when the shorts came out, I got a sun tan and the temperature reached 22.8ºC, Spring is all around us with fresh new growth, lambs in the fields and springtime flowers everywhere...
After the highs of my race in Pwllheli last weekend, the rest of a week has been a bit of a low training wise. I had an easy little spin on the turbo trainer on Monday and then went for an easy run but didn’t feel too good on it. I put it down to...
After a week or so of glorious weather, sun tans, shorts and busy bee-keeping, a sudden plunge back into temperatures below freezing, icy winds and snow on the hills just in time for the school holidays was a bit of a shock. Needless to say, this coupled with the fact that I was ill meant...
I was contacted the other day by someone from Rowse Honey telling me that they were planning on planting loads of plants especially for honey bees around the country and asking if I’d like to get involved by helping to spread the word. The idea is that they’ll plant a lavendar plant in community gardens...
You’ve probably already read that I had a good race in the Pwllheli Triathlon on Sunday. I’ve now had chance to look through my data and I’m quite pleased with my run in particular. I know you really shouldn’t try new things in a race, especially something such as new shoes, but that is what...
April 1st already and time for Pwllheli Triathlon, my first race of the season – will the winter training have paid off? Will I be any faster? How will the competition do? The first race of the season is always a bit of an unknown, but less so than last year when it was also...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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