Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Coast Path Vital Stats Dale to Marloes Distance: 12.48 miles Elevation Gain Today: 520m Highest Elevation: 62m Time: 2:25:47 Av. Pace: 11:41 mins/mile Calories: 1430 Totals to Date Total Distance: 968.64 miles Total Time: 181:43:29 Total Elevation Gain: 29061m Total Calories: 92092 Distance to go: 128 miles Having had a couple of nice days driving...
I finished my blog post about a walk in the Carneddau Hills with Rhys last Wednesday by saying: I can’t wait for the next adventure in the hills now. Summer is supposed to return for the weekend, so I’m half tempted to head back up to tick off a couple more of the Welsh 3000’s....
Having been out of action for a week or so thanks to a cold that went to my chest, I was dying to get out in the fresh air doing something exciting. I went for a short run on Sunday that was slow and quite a struggle but it didn’t set me back at all...
I know some of you (you know who you are!) will ridicule me for this, but I came across a cool website the other day called lighterpack.com. It’s not that clever really, as all it does is allow you to create a list of items and their weights and it works out how much your...
I had another quick pop into the hills yesterday to try out some kit. It was only a short walk/run and not far from home. Having looked down on the Dyfi Valley from Tarren Hendre on Monday, I was again looking down on it, this time from the opposite side whilst on top of Foel...
I thought I’d go for a slightly longer run today. It was a quiet day with a light breeze and cloudy skies so I decided to stay close to home and just do laps of the dunes. The lap around the top portion of the dunes is exactly 1 mile long. It goes up over...
Seeing as we hadn’t long got back from Norway, we had a fairly quiet weekend. Saturday I’d brought home a little bit of lurgy with me anyway so had been taking things easy as far as exercise is concerned. There was lots of wind forecast though so Steve was coming to the coast for the...
The last time I was on the Isle of Man I started running around the Coast Path. The Raad Ny Foillan (Way of the Gull) is the island’s premier long-distance path at around 100 miles. Officially opened in 2018 it quickly became one of the most popular walking routes in the British Isles. The path...
Coast Path Vital Stats Milford Haven to Dale Distance: 10.28 miles Elevation Gain Today: 368m Highest Elevation: 52m Time: 1:43:34 Av. Pace: 10:05 mins/mile Calories: 1167 Totals to Date Total Distance: 956.16 miles Total Time: 177:17:42 Total Elevation Gain: 28541 Total Calories: 90662 Distance to go: 140 miles I managed to get back out on...
I think you’ll agree with me that it’s better in the buff? So, with that in mind this article is all about doing it in the buff! What’s more, just for your entertainment you I shall illustrate it with plenty of photos of me (a grey, slightly overweight, middle-aged man) in the buff as well....
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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