Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Well, after a day in the hills on Sunday and my first mountain bike ride for ages, it was time to go windsurfing for the first time in months too. Most people who know me will know that I ‘usually’ windsurf pretty much anytime there’s wind which here means most days of the year! However,...
It may not be a windsurfer, but it’s not a kite-surfer either. All the same, it’s a pretty impressive feat with some ridiculous speeds that have completely blown the chances of the windsurfers and kite-surfers out of the water. In fact with a speed of 65.37 knots (average over 500m) it’s not only a new World Record...
Its been a while since I’ve been properly Mountain Biking – So long in fact that when I got my bike out yesterday it still had the race number on it from a race I did back in August – The CRC MTB Marathon in Abergavenny. It was therefore nice to get out for a little spin...
Morgan got his kid wood construction set out the other day and with a little bit of help from Anna they soon built a pretty impressive looking T-Rex. It’ll live with the Pterodactyl that he and I built earlier in the year. Hope you like it. In this photo you can even see what Morgan thinks are...
Hooray, Christmas is coming and we’re all ready for advent with our advent calendars on the table and ready to be opened tomorrow. Anna’s is the Hotel Chocolate one, Morgans the really cool Lego one and mine is the Octonauts (whatever they are) one! Morgan has had a Lego advent calendar a few times now...
Training with power on the bike is the most effective way of measuring your performance. It’s the only really consistent way to measure your progress (or lack of) and the only real way to produce repeatable workouts regardless of conditions, terrain or your frame of mind. Unfortunately a power meter is still fairly expensive with...
Seeing as I wrote a year in review for 2011 I thought I’d better do it for 2012 as well. 2012 was really my first full year training for and competing in triathlons, and what a year it was. I now had a coach, all the gear and was a man with a plan –...
Having been to New Zealand this year we are having to have a less extravagant Christmas than usual in order to save some money. No big four bird roast for us this year, not even a big goose or turkey instead we were planning to have a £10 3 bird roast from Iceland! Whilst in...
My last triathlon, which I did about a month ago was the big climax to the year. It was the World Championships in Auckland that I had been working towards all year. It had been a long year of racing and training and when I crossed the finish line ‘finished’ was the operative word –...
Morgan drew this picture of Alan yesterday while he was waiting for me to finish work. Apparently it is Alan from his imagination and he asked me to post it up here for everyone to see!
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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