Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After a morning of training on Sunday, we had to move a couple of our beehives. The out Apiary in Llandre where we had been keeping them was due to have some building work nearby and the bank that they were on needed some stabilising work carried out in order to allow access to the building...
True to my word of upping the intensity with my training, I did some more hills reps during my Sunday morning run. I had planned to do 6x 2 minute hill reps, but on the first one, the hill I choose only took about 1 minute 39 seconds, so they were going to be a little...
I noticed the other day that the water level in our fishtank was getting lower, after a quick investigation it was clear that it was leaking. There was water down the side of the tank, the wood supporting the tank was discoloured and damp and there were little pools of water on the things below...
I’ve decided to try something completely different this year with my training and do everything back to front as far as the periodisation is concerned. My training has been a little lacking lately anyway and I just don’t seem to have had any ‘oomph’ during training sessions. There’s been nothing in particular, but I just don’t seem...
Sorry, but it’s time to talk about Poo! I don’t know why I’m apologising really, 9 year old boys might find the topic amusing but as adults we should have grown out of that by now. Defecating, pooing, a number 2, taking a dump, having a sh*t, laying a cable, dropping the kids off at...
After torrential rains in the morning, Morgan and I were supposed to be going mountain biking on Saturday afternoon, but as the skies cleared and the sun came out Morgan couldn’t be bothered so instead I decided to go for a walk along the beach into Borth to get some bread and milk. It turned...
Seeing as I did a Hilly Hogmanay Half Marathon last year I had decided to do something similar this year. We were away in St David’s though so I couldn’t do the same route, nor could I do it on New Years Eve so instead I did it first thing on New Years Day. I...
We were invited to spend a couple of days in St David’s. staying in a holiday home owned by some friends. We couldn’t go for long as we just so happened to be looking after their guinea pigs so couldn’t leave them for long but decided spend New Year there and make a start on...
Monday started off cold and frosty as we loaded up the car for a day Mountain Biking at Coed y Brenin. I was running the last of my 6 assessed coaching sessions towards my Level 2 Cycle Coaching Certificate so we were meeting all of my students there for a final few tips and a...
We didn’t get huge amounts of snow here, but it did start snowing quite heavily whilst Morgan and I were out Mountain Biking yesterday at Pendam. Once we’d finished biking and got into the car it came down really heavily again so Morgan took a quick video clip of the snowstorm as I drove along...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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