Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I went for a ride around the Pendam Trail at Nant yr Arian yesterday. I was on my hardtail as I’ve yet to get a seatpost for my newly rebuilt Commencal Meta 5. I started off at a steady pace in perfect conditions, sunny, cool and barely any wind. By the time I got to...
Tomorrow’s the day I do my Lake Bala Swim for Diabetes UK Cymru. There’s still chance to sponsor me and help me reach my target, so please give generously. If you’ve already sponsored me then “thanks” and spread the word. More than 146,000 people in Wales have been diagnosed with diabetes. That’s nearly five percent...
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’ve recently taken up Open Water Swimming. I’ve bought a wetsuit fit for the purpose, I’ve got my GPS working whilst I’m out swimming, I’ve been for swim in the sea, the estuary and a local lake and I’ve signed up to do a swim in Lake...
As you can tell from recent posts our annual trip to the Isle of Man was a success. We drove from home to Liverpool on Wednesday afternoon and as usual arrived a couple of hours early for the boat so wandered around the newly refurbished dock front. It is much nicer than it used to...
As you may know from a previous weblog entry, I’m doing a mile swim in Lake Bala next Sunday in Aid of Diabetes UK. I thought I’d better do some training for it so yesterday I did a mile swim in the pool at the Sport Centre. 68 lengths non-stop isn’t the most exciting of...
After cracks appeared in my Commencal Frame a few weeks ago, I’ve now got a brand new 2010 Meta 5.5 Frame from Commencal. It’s a different colour and a slightly different model but hopefully this one won’t crack. I was expecting the stripping down of the old frame and the rebuilding of all the bits...
Look what arrived whilst I was away. Time to rebuild my bike.
I wasn’t able to take photos of the Isle of Man End2End as I was competing in it (read my race report here). However, Anna and Morgan were out at various points on the course to support and whilst they were there they took a load of photos – They may well have managed a...
Just thought I’d post my GPS route up from Sundays Isle of Man End2End. Not the fastest of times, but I had a great day out cycling from one end of the Isle of Man to the other along with 1400 other people. Click here for my full Isle of Man End2End race report.
Well, I survived the Isle of Man End2End and had a really good day doing it. As always my preparation wasn’t great. I hadn’t really been on a bike much in the run up to the event, I’d been ill a week or so before and hadn’t fully recovered from that and the the bike...
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