Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
What to do? Sit in and watch the Olympics from London 2012 which have been amazing, or go out and enjoy the brief spell of sunny weather? We’ve been trying to do both and it looks as though Morgan has been inspired by some of the athletes. So much so that he decided to start...
The sun was shining, Morgan was off school and I’d promised him we would get the canoe out and go to the beach. So, after a meeting in the morning that is exactly what we did. Slip, Slap Slop and we were ready to do battle with the sun and the waves. Our inflatable canoe that...
My knee coped with the CRC MTB Marathon on Saturday so I was all geared up for the Vitus Sportive on Sunday. After a decent nights sleep in the tent we were up and eating breakfast under pretty ominous looking skies. It wasn’t raining in the campsite but there were dark low clouds surrounding us...
Fortunately my knee issues didn’t seem to affect my cycling so I was able to complete the CRC MTB Marathon on Saturday and we had a good weekend camping in Abergavenny. We drove down on Friday immediately after work. We were meeting with Jay, Brad and Mel all of whom were also riding. Morgan was...
Whilst in Bristol recently we visited a few of the sights thanks to Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I’m from Bristol originally so things such as the Suspension Bridge and the SS Great Britain are fairly commonplace to me, especially as I used to walk past them everyday on my way to school. But Morgan and Anna...
Following on from my post about tracking my diet, I thought I’d post a list of what I’ve been eating, so here’s my food diary from Monday.. A typical day in the life of Alan. Breakfast 1 portion of M&S Delicious Nutty Crunch cereal 3 tablespoons of yoghurt – homemade with skimmed milk 1 mug...
My triathlon training and racing has been going well lately, but I’d still like to step things up a gear and get faster still. I can’t afford new go faster kit such as aero wheels or a tri-specific bike which could shave some seconds off my times. I could increase the training load which I...
I do like eating home grown produce and the garden is doing well at the moment. Last night I managed a meal with loads of fruit and veg that we had grown with our own fair hands. It was a bit of a mix and match meal as I grabbed it after a circuit training...
I have always avoided making Yorkshire puddings as I seemed to think they were too difficult to get right but thanks to Jamie Oliver and a recipe in his Ministry of Food book I now have a fail safe method which works every time. Even Morgan can make them. I’ve adjusted the recipe so that...
Busy Busy Busy – We’ve been so busy lately that I’ve just realised I haven’t blogged about many of the things we did last weekend, let alone what we did yesterday. As well as the bee-keeping, moth trapping and planet watching that I did blog about, we also spent Sunday outdoors. First we went to...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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