Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As promised in my Cotswold Triathlon Race Report here are a few photos from the event thanks to my Brother Jay and my Dad. You can see Jay’s entire album on Flickr. The official Photos are here: http://chrisyoungphotos.co.uk/group9299.html
Having missed my first race of the year I’d been looking forward to the Cotswold Sprint Triathlon for quite a while. Looking forward to it maybe, but although it wasn’t an important race there were still the usual pre-race doubts. These weren’t helped by the fact that I didn’t sleep a single wink the night...
Yep, I’m competing in a triathlon race on Sunday so it’s time for some Club Colour Competition Cuticles and a nice alliterative blog post too. The race is the Cotswold Triathlon but I couldn’t quite get the word ‘Cotswolds’ into the title as well. I don’t know about the rest of my body but at least my...
Hahahaha, Strava make me giggle sometimes! It’s been a while since I held the Strava KOM on the Borth Golf Course Straight segment, but it’s the closest segment to my house and, as Jon pointed out the other day, about time I attempted to regain it as he had been in the top spot since he...
I’m sure we weren’t the only ones, but we spent much of Bank Holiday Monday in the garden. I also went for a gorgeous swim in the sea. The water temperature was up to 9°C and the air temperature made it to 14.9°C so the cold was no longer an issue and I had a...
With just one week to go to what is now my first race of the season it’s time that I was getting into race-shape. I’m not quite there yet though but the Cotswold Super Sprint Triathlon next weekend isn’t an A-priority race, just a bit of a practise race before I head off to Turkey...
Whilst Borth was basking in sunshine today we were up in the hills around Nant yr Arian marshalling for the Red Kite Challenge. It’s actually a job for the Scouts but with Anna and I as Scout leaders that means we have to be there as well. We had a good turn out from the...
Morgan and I usually have an hour to kill on a Tuesday afternoon in between the end of school and when I drop him off with Anna at work. I then go to circuits, they have dinner, then Morgan goes to Archery, Anna goes to band and I go swimming, before we all finally go...
There has been quite a lot in the news over the last few days about grammar and how most people don’t use it correctly. Morgan spotted this error by the council while we were having tea in the sun along the prom in Aberystwyth last night. Can you spot the mistake?
I thought it was time that we could enjoy the garden from inside the house as well as out. It does afterall seem as though Spring has finally arrived and the garden is beginning to look nice. Cleaning the windows helped. They get coated in salt spray here in no time so over the winter...
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