Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, as predicted it was indeed a gorgeous day today, and after a solid 12 hours working in the garden my back is killing me and it’s time for a well-earned rest. I started off with a little bit of gardening at 6am this morning, doing quiet things like weeding so as not to wake...
It looks as though it’s going to be another gorgeous day. The sun is rising over the back garden and I can’t wait to get started. Gardening or the beach, which shall it be?
What a gorgeous day we had yesterday – Spring was finally here, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the winds had eased a little. It never quite got warm, hitting about 10°C at best, but it was perfect conditions for the beach cooking that we had planned for the Scouts. We prepared some...
Fartlek is always a funny word for us and when included with the word ‘windy’ I guess it’s a little funnier, but a fartlek session what I had planned for yesterdays main training session so that’s what I did. For those who don’t know what it means, Wikipedia have it defined as: Fartlek, which means “speed...
Well, the school holidays are over and we managed quite a bit of geocaching during them. We hit our goals of beating our monthly record and our consecutive days caching record too. We didn’t do any over the weekend so the last day of our consecutive days record was on Friday when Morgan and I popped into to...
Mmmmm, the house is suddenly full of the aromas of Christmas – I know it’s April but I don’t care as it smells scrumptious! It’s all thanks to the orange, cranberry and cherry muffins that I’ve just baked, complete with nutmeg and cinnamon topping. We’re also cooking a turkey, bacon and leek pie which smells pretty Christmassy...
I’m not impressed with the new Garmin Connect updates. The calendar part of their online offerings used to be one of the best as far as at a glance viewing of your training was concerned. They had lovely colour coding of different activity types, a brief overview of each of your activities and a weekly...
It’s a rest day for me today and for some reason on rest days I just can’t stop eating! I don’t know if its because my body is repairing itself and recovering from the training or just because I’ve got more time as I’m not spending half of it swimming, cycling and running, but whatever it...
I got to play with a new feature of the TrainerRoad Beta software yesterday. The feature called TrainerRelay allow you to re-broadcast your virtual power data from TrainerRoad on your PC to a head unit such as my Garmin Forerunner 910XT watch. This essentially gives me a power meter that I can use to train with. TrainerRoad...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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