Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Following our assault on Bwlch y Groes on Saturday I had planned a long ride on Sunday too but Jay and Mike wanted something slightly shorter and a lot less hilly. I therefore re-planned our route as we ate bacon sandwiches for breakfast. We put on a few extra layers after being cold most of the day...
With our plan to cycle from John o’Groats to Land’s End to raise money for the JDRF later in the year, we thought it was time to get some training in so Jay and Mike came up to stay for the weekend and we headed out for a ride each day. Jay had said that...
It’s supposed to be a recovery week this week for me but yesterday’s session was 3x 1 mile repeats with 3 minutes between intervals and the aim was to increase to speed for each mile. I set my Garmin Forerunner 910XT up for the workout, inputting target zones of 6:40 – 6:30 mins/mile for the...
Whilst away for the weekend at Steve and Biddy’s Wedding I at far too much – Well, one measure of a good celebration should be calories consumed thanks to beer, food and cakes, and if it is, then this was a good celebration! I therefore wanted to make sure I got my scheduled Sunday morning run in...
Unfortunately last nights training session didn’t go too well. I decided to join the Ystwyth CC Chain Gang, so turned up at Rhydepennau at the prescribed time, met up without about 30 other cyclists and then we split into 4 groups and started off around the Borth loop. Crash! For a start it was quite a...
Well, that felt odd this morning… Heading off to work while the sun was shining and Anna and Morgan were off at home. It’s usually the other way around, I’m the one staying at home whilst they head off to school and work, but not today thanks to my new(ish) job at the University. Yes,...
My first race of the season, and I’d picked a fairly local, fairly low key event in the form of the Newtown Triathlon to get things started. With only about 60 places available in the race it was never going to be hugely competitive and would therefore hopefully allow me to get a bit of...
With my first race of the year tomorrow, now probably isn’t the most sensible time to perform open-freehub surgery on my bike. It’s too late though, pre-race tinkering is what I’ve been doing! The rear wheel and more specifically the amount of drag in the rear wheel has been annoying me for ages. I’ve tried,...
Another good day’s training under my belt on Sunday with yet more hill reps. For the last few weeks my Sunday morning run session has consisted of hill reps. I have usually been doing these on the Caer Gybi Climb just outside Machynlleth, but also did some on week on the Climb up the to National...
Well, I wasn’t expecting that… I’ve just been out for a run and I started off at a fairly decent pace and just kept going. I ended up posting my best 10K time since I started back with this running malarky. The last time I tried a proper 10k effort I was aiming for 40 minutes...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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