Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
My trip to Kitzbühel in Austria for the 2014 European Triathlon Championships had begun. It started with an uneventful train journey to Manchester. I actually got off a stop early at Wilmslow where a client of mine was meeting me. Keith from Mannerborne who provides chauffeur services to the rich and famous had offered to...
We’ve just returned form a good weekend away racing at the British Sprint Triathlon Championships at Eton Dorney. We drove down in glorious sunshine on Friday and arrived at the lake for a quick look around. The course looked good and the weather looked as though it was going to be hot. We had booked...
Day two in Liverpool and I was up at 3am writing blog posts and milling about suffering with some sort of lurgy. I had a busy day to look forward to though and lots of eating, starting with a huge breakfast in Jury’s hotel. Buffet style which is always my favourite, although I do see...
Day 5 in London and once again this one was aimed at Morgan with a trip to Legoland. We aimed to get there just after it opened at 10am so set off from the hotel at 8am with a short walk to Earl’s Court tube station. The plan was a quick 10 minute tube journey...
Breakfast With the race done and dusted, it was time to enjoy our trip to London. Saturday started with the big breakfast buffet in the hotel restaurant. And I mean big. Mine went something like this. Orange and Cranberry Juice Large Bowl of Granola with a pot of Yoghurt Cappuccino Fry up – 3 rashers...
Race day was upon us. Although my race didn’t start until 9:50am, transition closed at 7:30am so we made an early start, I had my usual race day breakfast in the hotel room and we headed to Hyde Park for 6:30am so that I could get set up. The Race I won’t recall the race...
Day 2 in London and it was supposed to be a busy one with team briefings, race registration, equipment checks, a possible bike course recce and bike racking. We were hoping to fit some sight-seeing in as well. Luckily I had managed to register the day before so that was one less thing to do. We left...
The Trip to London We weren’t having a ‘proper’ family holiday this year as we couldn’t afford it following our holiday of a lifetime to New Zealand last year. Instead we were once again combining our holiday with me competing in the ITU Age-Group World Triathlon Championships which were in London this year. It wasn’t even going to be...
Phew, that was a quick trip to my parents house and back! Usually we go for a whole weekend, leaving here on Friday straight after school and returning on Sunday, but with so much going on here and a trip to London to prepare for we didn’t have much time so had to make it a...
It’s been a week since I got back from the European Age-Group Champs in Alanya, Turkey. I’m now back in the UK after an amazing trip. I booked my travel independently through Thomas Cook and boy am I glad that I did. Those that booked through the BTF’s preferred travel partner Nirvana had loads of...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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