Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Friday evening they said, it’s only an hour or two each week – so we signed up and became Scout Leaders for Borth 2nd Scouts. They forgot to tell us that there would be several planning meetings a month, tonnes of emails to read and respond to and phone calls galour! On top of that...
Well, we did once again manage to get some honey from our bees. Not a lot but one or two (small) jars more than last year. Not much and not a very successful year all round with the bees, but what little we did get is delicious!
Well, the first ever Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon was a roaring success. I hope everyone had a good day. I’m sure the competitors won’t agree with me but I reckon helping to organise and marshall all day is actually harder work than when I’m racing. I’ve now uploaded the photos I’ve taken to the Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon...
I suppose it had to happen. If you ask Anna she’ll tell you that I always have something wrong with me before a race and it would seem as though the size /importance of the race is directly proportional to the severity of the injury. I haven’t done too badly this year, but I had shin...
Thanks to the kind people at TriBlogs and Vibram, I recently received a pair of Vibram FiveFingers so that I could use them and blog about them. You’ve probably seen Vibram FiveFingers before – they are the odd looking shoes with individual toes and they are developing a bit of a cult following amongst those...
With the World Championships looming and my old TYR Hurricane wetsuit looking a little worse for wear I thought it was time to spend yet more money on this trip to Auckland and get a new wetsuit. I’d been looking around for a new one for a while and then noticed that Chain Reaction Cycles...
I’ve recently returned from a very successful weekend at the Rother Valley Triathlon Festival. I’ve written a full Rother Valley Triathlon Race Report elsewhere, but being the organised type I like to arrive at such places early just to get a feel for them and so that I don’t need to rush. The race was...
We had the Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association photo competition on Tuesday evening. Vicki who was orgainsing it this year had put a huge amount of effort into it so there were some really good prizes up for grabs. We however didn’t really put much effort into it this year as we didn’t have much time so...
It’s take some organising (mainly by Sharon), but the first ever Aberystwyth Triathlon is on this weekend. Comprising of a 750m sea swim in the bay off North Beach, transition on the prom, a 30km ride up Penglais Hill, out to Tre Dddol and back and then a 5km run along the prom with a sneaky little...
YEEESSSS!!! – Q1, Rother Valley Triathlon. Get in there, Alanya, Turkey here I come!!! OK, it wasn’t quite as exciting as my qualification for the World Championships earlier this year but I’m still pretty pleased. For a start this time I only gave myself one chance by only signing up for the final of 3 qualification events. If I didn’t...
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