Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
With race season in the triathlon world on its way, it time to start working on some speed in my training rather than the strength and endurance workouts I’ve been doing for the last 8 weeks or so. As part of my periodised training plan I’m moving from the strength and endurance phase into a...
Phew, it may be Wednesday already, but after a long weekend, it feels as though we’ve only just started back properly this week. There was loads going on in this part of the world over the weekend. The coast path was officially opened with a ceremony in Aberystwyth at which the band that Anna plays...
Well, that was exciting! Whatever happened to Spring? It’s horrendous out there and much more like winter. The air temperature has been around 4-5ºC all morning and according to the weather station in our garden the wind has been at around 40-50 knots all day so far. Needless to say it is pretty wild out...
After an epic family weekend away camping at the CRC MTB Marathon in Marshbrook last year we thought we’d do it again this year. The CRC MTB Marathons and Road Sportives provide a really good atmosphere, loads of people all into bikes camping in a big field and then riding lots. It ends up like a mini-festival but everyone...
Well, I hope this week of training has had some lasting benefit as it’s been quite a tough one. Within my periodisation I’m just coming to the end of a Strength and Endurance phase before staring on some more speed / race focused work. Within my 3-weekly, Medium, High, Recovery cycle it was a high...
It was the last day of the school holidays today – well, actually it was an inset day but Morgan is back to school tomorrow. As the sun was shining and Morgan was at home with me I took the day off work and we headed up to Pendam for some mountain biking action. Morgan...
My never ending quest to get faster feet continues. It worked quite well with my recent purchase of some new race shoes for running. A few days after buying them I wore them for the first time in a race and put in a massive personal best for a 5km run. So, with that success...
Summer must be on its way – I went for my first proper open water swim of the year today. Now, usually by this time of the year I’ve been in the sea loads either windsurfing or surfing, but as there hasn’t been much wind lately and the surf seems to have coincided with days...
After the highs of my race in Pwllheli last weekend, the rest of a week has been a bit of a low training wise. I had an easy little spin on the turbo trainer on Monday and then went for an easy run but didn’t feel too good on it. I put it down to...
After a week or so of glorious weather, sun tans, shorts and busy bee-keeping, a sudden plunge back into temperatures below freezing, icy winds and snow on the hills just in time for the school holidays was a bit of a shock. Needless to say, this coupled with the fact that I was ill meant...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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