Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’m beginning to enjoy running again at the moment. My last run was good and I was pleased with my average pace of less than 7 minute miles. It’s not fast and nowhere near as fast as I used to manage 20 years ago when I could easily bang out a 10k in 40 minutes,...
I don’t post about every windsurf session or bike ride that I do here – You’d soon become bored if I did and besides, I don’t have time to actually do them and to blog about it all the time, but today’s session was a particularly good one! It was blowing a hoolie and had...
My run training technique of ‘doing very little running’ seems to be working still! I would have thought that i’d need to do somewhere around 2-4 runs per week to see any improvement in my spee. I’ve only been doing that per month but still I seem to be getting better. I’ve just got back...
Autumn is here in style. I really do love this time of year. There is lots to do with Halloween, lantern parades, bonfire and firework parties, harvest festivals and plenty going on elsewhere. The trees look amazing, my drive down to South Wales yesterday for a MTB ride at Cwmcarn was spectacular. The route follows...
The end of October already, which could only mean one thing, the end of month ride was due and this time we were off to Cwmcarn in South Wales, a trail centre I’d never been to. It was a long drive so an early start for me. Up at 5ish, check my e-mails and such...
The kitesurfers have now smashed the 55 knot barrieer over 500m – The speeds have yet to be officially ratified by the WSSRC, but Sebastien Cattelan has done it again at the 2010 Luderitz Speed Challenge. After writing history just over two years ago by being the first kiter to break the magical 50 knots...
I was dying to get out for a MTB ride last night. I’d been at home all day without much work to do so had been willing the wind to pick up so that I could go windsurfing – It never did, so I was champing at the bit to get out and do something....
I’ve just got back from an excellent windsurf session here at Ynyslas. I wandered over to the beach and it didn’t lok great, grey, not that windy and not much in the way of waves either. I rigged my bigger sail, a 5.6m Gun Nexus and decided to give it a go with my Naish...
My beloved and very well used Garmin Forerunner 305 has stopped working. I’ve had it since January 2008 and it has been working flawlessy but now it keeps switching itself off. Sometimes it’ll stay on for a while but if I just touch the casing then it shuts down. I guess it could have got...
I did the Bristol Bike Fest on Saturday, a Mountain Bike Endurance race in Ashton Court, Bristol. Jay and I rode the course at a very easy pace on Friday evening and it seemed really nice. There hadn’t been any rain for ages so it was bone dry with loads of lovely twisty single track....
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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