Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Daily Stats – Day 3 Miles Ridden: 97.6 miles Metres Climbed: 5584 feet Time Riding: 6:27:30 Average Speed: 15.1 mph Total Miles Ridden: 304 miles Total Ascent: 14,400 feet Total Time Riding: 19:27:29 Todays Weather: Sunny. Day 3 of our JOGLE adventure was underway, and I had finally had a good sleep at the Pitlochry...
Daily Stats – Day 2 Miles Ridden: 88.1 miles Metres Climbed: 3704 feet Time Riding: 5:44:01 Average Speed: 15.4 mph Total Miles Ridden: 206.4 miles Total Ascent: 8816 feet Total Time Riding: 12:59:59 Todays Weather: Showers, then sunshine. Day 2 of JOGLE started off on a grumpy mood thanks to no sleep and the horrible...
Sorry for the lack of updates during JOGLE, but we didn’t have very good wi-fi signals most of the time and therefore couldn’t post to the weblog. I will make amends over the next few days though and will post for each day as soon as I get the chance. In the meantime, here’s an...
Daily Stats – Day 1 Miles Ridden: 118.3 miles Metres Climbed: 5112 feet Time Riding: 7:15:58 Average Speed: 16.2 mph Total Miles Ridden: 118.3 miles Total Ascent: 5112 feet Total Time Riding: 7:15:58 Todays Weather: Misty, Sunny then rain rain rain. Day 1 of JOGLE and we had all met at Thurso the night before...
Another early start so that we could get on the road and not have to rush was rewarded by some amazing views through Glencoe with the low morning sun lighting the mountains. We set off from the Youth Hostel is Crianlarich at around 6:30am after a quick coffee and made our way towards Fort William....
Holiday time!!! if you can call cycling the length of Britain from John O’Groats to Lands End a ‘holiday’.. Or driving it for that matter as that’s what Anna will be doing acting as support crew along with Morgan. Before we could do that though we had the small matter of driving North to John...
As you should know by now we are about to embark on a charity cycle ride from John O’Groats to Lands End in aid of JDRF (Click here to support the charity and sponsor our ride). We are just about ready to start heading up to John O’Groats in order to start the ride on...
Our beekeeping adventures continue and we have now taken the WBKA Basic Beekeeping Assessment. There is no obligation for beekeepers to do such things but as beekeeping has always been a hobby for us rather than a money-making or even honey-making scheme, this just seemed like another aspect to the hobby. Study Groups For us,...
Just some nice bright flowers from the garden. Enjoy!
My toes are ready for Jogle – now to work on the rest of my body which is well and truly overweight at the moment. It’s been a while since I’ve been this fat!
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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