Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Despite the amount of snow on the ground its time to start thinking about which MTB races I’m going to do this year. I don’t do them that seriously as I’m not that good, but ‘competing’ in them is always fun and it gives me something to aim towards. I’m not sure which ones I’ll...
I’ve just done another PWC170 test on my turbo trainer. Hopefully this one is more accurate as well as the first one I did allowed me to find the Power Outputs that I should be working at to provide workrates of 120-140 bpm for the first 6 minute effort and 150-170bpm for the second 6...
It’s going to be a busy day today. Despite having my car serviced and MOT’d just before Christmas, on Christmas eve it decided to break-down meaning I needed the recovery service to come out to meet me in Morissons car park so that I could get home for Christmas. Since then its been sat on...
I can’t get enough of these! I did my 1 minute intervals workout on the turbo trainer yesterday. Once again, I did them at 350 Watts the same as I did last week. Unsurprisingly the heart rate graph is almost identical. It’s good to see how closely I can replicate a workout though as that...
I bought Anna a 1000 piece ‘Where’s Wally’ jigsaw puzzle for Christmas. I think she enjoyed the relaxation of sitting there doing it over the Christmas break and before long it was nearly completed. Then came the day of final success, it was nearly done, until she got down to one piece to go. The...
The Snipe that I spotted in the garden yesterday didn’t return, so while I was sat there with the camera set up I decided to take a few photos of the more common birds in the garden, those that are usually overlooked. I think it will be a little photo assignment of mine now to...
Spotted a snipe in the garden this morning… Managed a blurry photo of it but I have the camera set up ready for its return. Bet it won’t come back now!
I still haven’t quite got the hang on getting pin sharp photos with my longest lens. At 300mm it isn’t really long enough for bird photography either and hand holding it without image stabilisation isn’t easy, but I’ll get there. What I really need is a day out in the hills or along the estuary...
We’ve just got back from a nice little walk up at Nant yr Arian. There’s loads of snowy scenes up there and some cool ice crystals on top of the snow. We had Morgan with us so I didn’t really have time to sit there and play with my camera but there were plenty of...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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MTB / Trail Guides / Wales
Traws Eryri Day 2 – Dolgellau to Trawsfynydd
Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
