Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, that was exciting! Whatever happened to Spring? It’s horrendous out there and much more like winter. The air temperature has been around 4-5ºC all morning and according to the weather station in our garden the wind has been at around 40-50 knots all day so far. Needless to say it is pretty wild out...
It was the last day of the school holidays today – well, actually it was an inset day but Morgan is back to school tomorrow. As the sun was shining and Morgan was at home with me I took the day off work and we headed up to Pendam for some mountain biking action. Morgan...
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...
It’s been like winter all week with sub-zero temperatures and a cold northerly breeze, there was a small window of summer last week when the shorts came out, I got a sun tan and the temperature reached 22.8ºC, Spring is all around us with fresh new growth, lambs in the fields and springtime flowers everywhere...
After a week or so of glorious weather, sun tans, shorts and busy bee-keeping, a sudden plunge back into temperatures below freezing, icy winds and snow on the hills just in time for the school holidays was a bit of a shock. Needless to say, this coupled with the fact that I was ill meant...
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...
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...
The Pier on Aberystwyth is becoming known as a spectacular place to watch starlings coming in to roost, so here’s some footage of the starling murmuration at its best. An amazing display by the starlings all with the gorgeous backdrop of Aberystwyth seafront on a sunny Spring evening. What could be better?
I had a gorgeous run last night. The clocks have gone forward, the evenings are long and the weather is as good as it could be. I wasn’t supposed to go for a run but I couldn’t resist it so headed off down the beach towards Borth. The beach was quiet with only a few people wandering...
Sunday mornings usually have me doing a run and a swim these days, and last Sunday was no exception. I couldn’t swim at Machynlleth as the Aquathlon was on and I was supposed to be doing hill reps anyway, so would be better off running on my own. I therefore headed into Aberystwyth nice and...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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