Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Monday started off cold and frosty as we loaded up the car for a day Mountain Biking at Coed y Brenin. I was running the last of my 6 assessed coaching sessions towards my Level 2 Cycle Coaching Certificate so we were meeting all of my students there for a final few tips and a...
We didn’t get huge amounts of snow here, but it did start snowing quite heavily whilst Morgan and I were out Mountain Biking yesterday at Pendam. Once we’d finished biking and got into the car it came down really heavily again so Morgan took a quick video clip of the snowstorm as I drove along...
Everyone else seems to have had some sort of lurgy lately. Stomach bugs and colds seem to be rife and half of Morgan’s school was off ill one day. Morgan wasn’t quite right himself the other day, Anna’s Mum was coughing and spluttering whilst she was here and work colleagues have all been ill too....
I’ve been doing MAF style training during the winter months for the last few years now, but I’m beginning to think that although the concept is a good one, that the actual MAF method doesn’t work for me. With that in mind it was time to put my thoughts into a blog post. What is...
Hot on the heels of my FTP Test on the bike on Monday, it was time to monitor progress (or lack of) in my running by performing a MAF Test. MAF, a term coined by Dr. Phil Maffetone stands for Maximum Aerobic Function – I won’t go into it here as I have a post planned about it...
I got a bit carried away on my ‘long run’ on Sunday. I went just over 14 miles in the end, the furthest I’ve ever run. It didn’t feel too bad either and was generally just under 8min/mile pace, except for the one big climb which was quite slow and the slippery descent afterwards which was even slower. Not...
Just a few quick clips of Morgan flying his kite at Ynyslas on Sunday afternoon.
Many of my friends were planning a trail run in Pennal Forest on Sunday morning. I would have joined them but they weren’t starting until 9am and I wanted to be finished by then so that I could swim in the pool in Machynlleth. However, Shem had marked out the route with little yellow markers...
I’ve been getting out on my mountain bike a bit more lately. I’ve been organising Night Rides everyone Monday evening and they seem to have been going down well. There seem to be new faces each week as word of the rides spread and most people seem to be enjoying it and coming back on...
I think I must have unusually robust ears as I seem to get through earphones for my iPod in no time at all. I’m forever replacing them so have recently resorted to buying cheap ones from the £1 shop as then it doesn’t matter if I break them. It was quite nice the other day...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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