Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
With the Annual ABKA Honey Show on Sunday, we had to make an effort to prepare our entries. We didn’t really have enough honey to enter and hadn’t made anything from wax. No candles, no combs of honey and even the cookery class that we were looking forward to was different this year. The various...
It was my turn to be the supporter at a race yesterday. Rather than being the one racing I headed to the Vicarage Fields in Aberystwyth to watch the Aberystwyth Area Schools Cross Country Championships that Morgan had qualified for. I met Anna there who had managed to come down in her lunch hour and...
No, unfortunately it’s not for me, as I stopped growing many years ago and therefore have no legitimate justification for a new bike every couple of years. Morgan on the other hand is still growing and therefore has. Thankfully the Isla Bike , a Beinn 20 Large, that we bought for him two years ago...
I’ve called this a ‘race report’ but for me and probably most of people taking part it wasn’t a race, just an event. It isn’t classed as a race by the organisers either and is really just an excuse to ride around the hills and woods of North Wales with 600 like-minded people. I’d taken part...
I’m doing the Coed y Brenin Enduro again this year, along with my brothers Jay and Brad. I did it a couple of years ago and had a good time, so thought that as the triathlon season would be over by now it would be a fun event to do not as a race, but...
You may remember me posting about my PMC Chart earlier in the year, saying that all was going well as I built towards a peak ready for my first race. The data from this gives me an overview of my training and charts my levels of ‘Fitness’, ‘Freshness’ and ‘Training Stress’. The plan for any race is...
The Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon seems to be going from strength to strength. In only it’s second year and with a limit set at 100 for logistical reasons it sold out and a waiting list was put in place. As I’m on the committee and help with the organisation of it I decided once again not to race...
Morgan seems to be quite into running at the moment. He has ‘qualified’ for the inter-schools Aberystwyth Area Cross Country race which he’ll be running next week. We’re not sure how far he has to run, probably only a mile at his age, but he seems quite keen. He even wants to do some training...
Seeing as I’m out of action training-wise at the moment I decided to play in the kitchen yesterday and cook up a delicious hearty autumnal casserole with potato cobblers as a topping. It turned out to be really nice so I thought I’d share the recipe here as I made it up as I went...
You may have noticed that I haven’t been mountain biking, windsurfing or doing too many other slightly adventurous activities lately. Very much unlike me I know, but with some big triathlon races on my calendar I was not only training hard for them leaving little time for other recreation but I was doing my best to stay injury...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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