Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
It’s been a while since I’ve been up in the hills. We have been there for walks with the Scouts, but we haven’t even been out blueberry picking this year for a change. The arrival of a new bike changed that though on Sunday when I had a bit of Trail Fest at Nant yr Arian....
Coast Path Vital Stats Four Mile Bridge to Trearddur Bay Distance: 11.05 miles Elevation Gain Today: 197m Highest Elevation: 45m Time: 1:50:21 Av. Pace: 9:59 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 124bpm Max Heart Rate: 147bpm Calories: 1024 Totals to Date Total Distance: 273.77 miles Total Time: 50:35:20 Total Elevation Gain: 7546m Total Calories: 25685 Distance to go: 613 miles...
Just a few clips from what was a 5 star windsurf session on Sunday. In fact it was a 5 star day really. First up was a walk along the beach and through the dunes. It wasn’t the nicest of days but it was warm and dry, just a little cloudy with a stiff breeze....
The lovely summer weather seems to have deserted us as usual for the school holidays. This is a shame really as I have loads of time off work thinks to the fact that I worked lots of overtime earlier in the year, so I’ve been at home with Morgan. We haven’t been put off by...
MRI Scan Results I’ve finally had the results back from the MRI scan on my shoulder and a diagnosis. Essentially there’s some fairly extensive arthritis of my acromioclavicular (AC) joint. If you remember back to the New Year when my shoulder pain first occurred then I thought at the time that it was an AC joint issue....
The Ocean Lava Half Ironman Distance Triathlon in Fishguard was to be my only race this year and my first since May 2015. Not only that, it was my first ever race of this distance. At Half ironman distance it was more than four times the distance I usually race so it was all a...
My training for the upcoming Ocean Lava Half-Ironman distance triathlon has been going from bad to worse. In fact as mentioned previously I haven’t really been ‘training’ this year, just exercising. I’ve had a shoulder injury so no swimming. I’ve had achilles problems which has stopped me running a little. Then last week I had some...
Sunday turned out to be a nice bright, windy day. Too windy to put the roof on the new lean-to. So, after a hard turbo trainer and srun session it was off to the beach for some windsurfing. The 20-25 knot wind was a little marginal for my 5.7m sail and 85 litre wave board. There...
Feeling completely unprepared for the upcoming Fishguard Ocean Lava Half Ironman distance triathlon that I’m supposed to be doing in a couple of weeks, I thought it was time to simulate riding the course. I didn’t have time to head to Fishguard again to ride the bike route. So, instead I decided to replicate it on...
Grrr… I’ve got some kind of lurgy. Headache, sore throat and generally feeling ‘bleurgh.’ Not ideal for an upcoming first attempt at a Half ironman distance race, but there’s little I can do about that. I have therefore ceased what little training I was doing to see if I can kick it. It didn’t stop me...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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