Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I managed to squeeze a few hours working in the garden into my hectic weekend schedule on Saturday. I’d already mowed the lawn a day or so ago, so todays chores were tidying up the edges around the various beds and borders, weeding, cutting back and pruning a few plants and potting out some Rosemary cuttings. The...
7am and I’ve been up for three hours so as to do a load of baking whilst the electricity is cheaper. Managed to get a load of washing and a dishwasher load done at the same time. And here are the fruits (or should that be ‘cakes’) of my labour. 2 Rotorua Mud Cakes 1 Earl Grey...
It’s so nice with the light evenings and slightly warmer weather to be outdoors with the Scouts. The winter months become a little diffiuclt trying to organise suitable activities for them but now that the days are longer we can just go outdoors and do something. Last nights activity was a walk from Clarach to Borth along...
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...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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