Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
My first ride for what seems like ages due to a cold, and it was a night ride with Dave, Pete and John. We started from the War Memorial in Penrhyncoch and decided to head up via Banc y Darren as that was likely to be the least icy route. It was icy in a few...
Well, I think that windsurf session this morning may have been my last chance to hit 40 knots before I’m 40 in a few weeks time. There may be another chance but it hasn’t quite come together yet. I had a nice early start as Ivor, our local katabatic wind was in full force, so...
I Blame Pete for posting on the forums saying: “See you up there later, looks like it might be a calmer one than of late too !!” Because as soon as he posted it yesterday morning it started pouring down and continued to do so almost all day. When we arrived at Angler’s Retreat for...
The conditions this morning looked awesome for windsurfing. A rare strong SE wind and some decent waves to give us 30 knots of cross-offshore winds and super clean, head high waves to play on. Perfect for down-the-line wave sailing and not conditions we normally get here as it’s usually cross-onshore so the waves are never...
I think I need some new running routes. The ones I do are OK and doing the same route now and then to gauge your progress (or lack of as the case might be) is always a good thing, but doing the same route all the time is not only a little boring, but hard...
My attempt to do some longer rides continued yesterday with another long early morning ride on my Mountain Bike. Last week I managed 44 miles in just over 4 and a half hours, this week it was 53 miles in just over 5 hours. Admittedly quite a bit of it was on the road, but...
Autumn has been living up to expectations with some decent winds. I have of course been making the most of it and have been out windsurfing quite a bit. Even better is the fact that there are a couple of students at the university who windsurf as well this year so I might actually have someone to...
Well, we knew it was coming but when it blows properly it blows! The wind here started at around 3am, then eased off a little this morning before picking up properly to 40-50 knots at around 10am. The exact time we had planned to go out windsurfing. Normally that would be a good thing, but...
I think I’m going to sign myself up to do a 12 hour solo Mountain Bike Race – Although it won’t be a ‘race’ for me, just a challenge to try to do it all without too much in the way of stops. I’m not sure which one to go for though so any recommendations...
I’m toying with the idea of doing a 12 hour solo MTB race next year, so though I’d better start doing some slightly longer rides. Up until now, anything over 15 miles was considered a longer ride and I very rarely do a ride that far. So, yesterday I was up at 5am as usual...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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