Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I knew it would happen.. Less than three weeks to go until the European Triathlon Champs and I blew my healthy eating regime on Scout Camp. Shed loads of sweets, chocolate and cakes, far too much bread and loads of sausages! Thankfully it was only a couple of days and we’d taken plenty of fruit and...
I still feel silly calling myself an athlete, even if it is a triathlete, but I’ve been fairly fortunate lately and have been feeling almost like a real one. Things have been quiet on the work front – quiet enough so as to have some financial worries – but on the plus side it has meant that there...
As promised in my Cotswold Triathlon Race Report here are a few photos from the event thanks to my Brother Jay and my Dad. You can see Jay’s entire album on Flickr. The official Photos are here: http://chrisyoungphotos.co.uk/group9299.html
Having missed my first race of the year I’d been looking forward to the Cotswold Sprint Triathlon for quite a while. Looking forward to it maybe, but although it wasn’t an important race there were still the usual pre-race doubts. These weren’t helped by the fact that I didn’t sleep a single wink the night...
Hahahaha, Strava make me giggle sometimes! It’s been a while since I held the Strava KOM on the Borth Golf Course Straight segment, but it’s the closest segment to my house and, as Jon pointed out the other day, about time I attempted to regain it as he had been in the top spot since he...
With just one week to go to what is now my first race of the season it’s time that I was getting into race-shape. I’m not quite there yet though but the Cotswold Super Sprint Triathlon next weekend isn’t an A-priority race, just a bit of a practise race before I head off to Turkey...
It’s good to see that some companies do in fact listen to their customers. I had a little moan a few days ago about the sudden changes to the Garmin Connect Calendar, and I wasn’t the only one unhappy with the updates. Thankfully it looks as though they have listened to our complaints and have...
Who’d would have thought it, after a solid twelve hours under wall to wall sunshine in the garden yesterday, there were some snow flurries on my run this morning! It was pretty chilly out there running around the hills behind Machynlleth but I managed to cover 9 miles up and over a pretty big hill....
Fartlek is always a funny word for us and when included with the word ‘windy’ I guess it’s a little funnier, but a fartlek session what I had planned for yesterdays main training session so that’s what I did. For those who don’t know what it means, Wikipedia have it defined as: Fartlek, which means “speed...
I’m not impressed with the new Garmin Connect updates. The calendar part of their online offerings used to be one of the best as far as at a glance viewing of your training was concerned. They had lovely colour coding of different activity types, a brief overview of each of your activities and a weekly...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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