Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
We’ve just got back from a week away which all started with the Bontrager 24/12 MTB race in Newnham Park, near Plymouth. We had a good drive down from here, although the weather wasn’t great and as we got nearer to the campsite the weather actually became atrocious with driving rain loads of spray on the motorway...
This seems to be becoming something of a recurring theme for me… I sign up for a race, prepare badly, get injured and always have plenty of excuses before the big day. This time it’s no different but everything is a little more exaggerated than normal. First up, for some reason at the end of last year I decided...
It was a pretty miserable weekend here, cold, wet and very windy. Usually not a problem for me as that would make for perfect windsurfing weather, especially during the summer when the water is warm. I was therefore pretty grumpy as I couldn’t get out to play thanks to the torn ligaments in my ankle....
Hopefully you’ve already read my post about our camping weekend in Shropshire. We were there so that I could do the Marshbrook round of the CRC MTB Marathon series along with my brothers Jay and Brad. I also met another friend, Darren there who was riding it too. Darren, Jay and myself had signed up...
I’ve barely ever been to Shropshire properly before but we’ve just got back from a lovely weekend camping just outside of a little village called Marshbrook, not far from Church Stretton in the Shropshire Hills. We were there to do the CRC MTB-Marathon on Sunday (more on that in another post) but as part of...
We had a lovely Mountain Bike ride last night and it was nice to see a number of new faces on the ride as well. We met at our usual spot near to Angler’s Retreat. As well as myself, there was Pete, who is now a regular rider having started riding with us last year,...
Morgan has been dying to ride his bike up at Nant yr Arian for a while so whilst the schools were closed last thursday for polling I took him up there and we had a ride around the lake. he also had his first go along the Hippity Hop section of trail. It was a...
Good to see that Danny MacAskill is ‘almost’ human. Morgan wants to be just like him and we’ve been out practising on his bike this morning – It’s going to take a while though, but it’s good to have high aspirations.
The Dyfi Enduro 2011 results are out. You can download the spreadsheet here. I’m pretty pleased with my placing just inside the top 100. Everyone else that I ride with did really well too. Jon came in 18th (11th in his category) in a time of 3:07:13 – The winner Neal Crampton did it in...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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