Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We already know that weather records were smashed when the Beast from the East met Storm Emma, so here’s what we were greeted to in the morning. First, the view from inside which wasn’t a lot as we could barely see through the windows Outside it was a weird world of frozen snow drifts that had...
Well, the meeting of ‘The Beast from the East’ and Storm Emma were certainly a potent combination. Along with some input from out local katabatic wind Ivor, it led to some new weather records recorded by the Borth & Ynyslas Weather Station here. First to fall was the ‘Feels Like’ temperature which hit a low...
Offa’s Dyke Vital Stats Kington to Hay-on-Wye Distance: 15.24 miles Elevation Gain Today: 723m Highest Elevation: 453m Time: 2:26:48 Av. Pace: 9:38mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 136bpm Max Heart Rate: 157bpm Calories: 1366 Totals to Date Total Distance: 579.11miles Total Time: 108:13:52 Total Elevation Gain: 1958 Total Calories: 53183 Distance to go: 51 miles Another day of adventure thanks...
It may have been minus 4ºC and snowing but that doesn’t stop me. In fact, I was quite warm in my 3/2mm summer suit once I got working fairly hard. Even my bare hands were OK. First I played in the small waves as a warm up, then I did 8x ¼ mile intervals with ¼ mile recoveries into Borth...
It was Morgans birthday at the weekend. Quite how he got to be 13 already I’ll never know. It was also half term last week so Anna and I took Friday off so that we could have a long weekend away. We therefore headed off after work on Thursday to my parents house just North...
I haven’t mentioned my aquarium or the aquascape within it for quite a while. It was all looking really good lately though and the plants, fish and shrimp inhabitants were all doing well. That was until I noticed the bracing piece of glass in the middle of the tank had fallen off! Actually, one end...
Offa’s Dyke Vital Stats Knighton to Kington Distance: 13.95 miles Elevation Gain Today: 763m Highest Elevation: 401m Time: 2:34:25 Av. Pace: 11:04mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 124bpm Max Heart Rate: 146bpm Calories: 1188 Totals to Date Total Distance: 563.87miles Total Time: 105:47:04 Total Elevation Gain: 17235 Total Calories: 51817 Distance to go: 66 miles Monday’s Offa’s Dyke run looked...
After a weekend of flat water paddling in North Wales, I just couldn’t resist getting out for a play in the waves once I was home. Actually, I went for a run along Offa’s Dyke first, but I haven’t blogged about that yet. So, while you wait for the Offa’s Dyke blog post here are a...
The fact that things have been organised so that the Colwyn Bay Ski races and the Llyn Padarn Kayak Time Trials occur on the same weekend makes it worthwhile making the 2 hour trip to North Wales for me. Not that the 2 hour trip to North Wales isn’t always worthwhile. It always is and the...
This fix for a non-responsive Garmin Fenix 3 that I’m about to explain may not work for all situations but it seems to have helped me. The other day, my Garmin Fenix 3 that I love just decided not to turn on. I went to start a workout, saw the screen flash on and off...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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