Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Day four of our trip and we were now settling into Auckland. We aren’t really ‘City People’ but Auckland was growing on us. The CBD is very compact with skyscrapers everywhere and an amazing skyline. Getting around was easy and the whole place was buzzing with the energy of the ITU Triathlon World Championships. The...
Finally after 2 full days of travelling we touched down in Auckland at around 1pm and now it was time to get through passport control, customs and biosecurity. Being an island that has been separated from elsewhere for the past 100 million years or so, the flora and fauna of New Zealand has a high percentage...
It had been a while coming but on Tuesday October 16th, after weeks of planning and preparation, our family trip to New Zealand finally began. In case you didn’t already know, it had been a dream location of ours for years but time and money constraints had always meant that it remained just that, a...
First and apology for the lack of posts here recently, but I’ve been on the holiday of a lifetime in New Zealand and was without Internet access. Second a precautionary tale that I shall be making up for this over the next days and weeks with a day by day account of our trip. I turn...
After a fitfull sleep my day started at 4:30am with a caffeinated coffee, porridge and Beet-it beetroot juice for breakfast. This was followed by a shower and getting my stuff ready to go. I then walked down through Auckland CBD to transition area with Graham and Sharon at 5:30am, had my helmet checked and started setting...
~ Monday Oct. 15th – Ready to Go ~ We are all packed and ready to go on the biggest trip of our lives. Packing seems to have taken a while but we are now pretty much done and just want to go today, but we have one more day of work / school before...
One week to go until the biggest race of my life – The ITU World Triathlon Championships in Auckland, and I’m still here in wet, grey, dreary West Wales. I won’t actually get to Auckland until Thursday afternoon and the race is early on Monday morning so I only have a few days to adjust...
With the World Triathlon Championships race fast approaching I wanted to say thanks and give some exposure to the companies, organisations and people who have sponsored and supported me financially. As you can imagine, training for, get to and competing in a World Championship event in New Zealand is an expensive undertaking. So, shortly after I qualified...
I can’t quite remember if I’ve blogged about Strava.com before, but if not, I should have. It’s yet another website that allows you to upload your GPS data from cycling and running sessions. You can record this data on a GPS device such as my Garmin Forerunner 910XT or a GPS enabled Mobile such as...
The number of locals who have qualified for places on Team GB for either the World Triathlon Championships or European Triathlon Championships keeps growing. All Age-Group athletes of course but due to the unprecedented number of us we got together last night on a windswept village green for a photo-shoot with the photographer from the...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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