Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Summer must be on its way – I went for my first proper open water swim of the year today. Now, usually by this time of the year I’ve been in the sea loads either windsurfing or surfing, but as there hasn’t been much wind lately and the surf seems to have coincided with days...
After the highs of my race in Pwllheli last weekend, the rest of a week has been a bit of a low training wise. I had an easy little spin on the turbo trainer on Monday and then went for an easy run but didn’t feel too good on it. I put it down to...
You’ve probably already read that I had a good race in the Pwllheli Triathlon on Sunday. I’ve now had chance to look through my data and I’m quite pleased with my run in particular. I know you really shouldn’t try new things in a race, especially something such as new shoes, but that is what...
April 1st already and time for Pwllheli Triathlon, my first race of the season – will the winter training have paid off? Will I be any faster? How will the competition do? The first race of the season is always a bit of an unknown, but less so than last year when it was also...
I’ve been meaning to write a reviews of the various online training diary applications / website for a while now. I’ve written a review of the training software available for a Mac before, but the online offerings have probably now overtaken these in features and even robustness. I still like the idea of local, offline...
Well, I was hoping not to have any excuses for my first race of the season – the Pwllheli Triathlon on Sunday – but as usual, I do! first up, I’m not really treating this as a particularly important race and will therefore simply be training right through it. No tapering beforehand and no real...
As we were in Bristol for the weekend I decided to take my biking and running kit and meet up with Jay, Brad and Mike for a little ride and run around the Bristol Triathlon course. Brad, Mike and myself will be doing the Bristol Triathlon in July so we thought it would be good...
I managed to surprise myself and run an unexpected Personal Best for 5km the other day – Well, PB for recent years anyway. I’m not supposed to be that fast quite yet as I haven’t started any speed work within this years periodised training plan yet, and going quite so hard is probably a bit...
In an attempt to improve my triathlon performances I’ve been working with a coach and I’ve been trying to follow a periodised training plan this year. Periodisation There are plenty of quite large books that go into great depths about periodisation in triathlon training (one of the best being Joe Friels “The Triathlete’s Training Bible“....
I got my new training gadget on Friday, a Garmin Forerunner 910XT that I’ve been wanting to get hold of for a while. Stocks are limited and they’ve been a little difficult to get hold of but I managed to get a good deal and excellent service from Tristan at heartratemonitor.co.uk. There was no messing...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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