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Buying bees 0

Buying bees

‘Plan Bee’ is progressing well. We’ve been diligently attending the beekeeping course with the Aberystwyth beekeepers association. The lectures are good and we’ve been making new friends too. The coffee and cake is always a bonus as well. Morgan comes along with us at the moment, he sits there and plays on my iPad, but...

Suffer Chamber 0

Sufferfest

I’ve written here several times about the importance of staying motivated as far as training or keeping fit goes. I’ve also posted plenty of tips to help with that such as: Buying new gadgets. Training with others. Making a habit of it. and many more. I tend to do these myself, maybe not consciously, but...

Running at Race Pace 0

Running at Race Pace

I don’t know about Anna’s walking the world, but I’ve been trying to do a bit more running lately. I still don’t do much, but rather than getting out once a week I’ve been trying to increase this to 2-3 times per week. Trouble is I seem to be getting slower each tim I go...

My Pedometer 6

Walk the World

Those of you who know me will be aware that I am not quite a sporty as Al and I have to admit that since having Morgan my activity levels have dropped off considerably. I keep meaning to do something about it but there always seems to be something else more urgent to do than...

200th Geocache Milestone 0

200th Geocache Milestone

It’s half term this week so Morgan is having a couple of days at home with me. He’s learnt to make me cups of coffee so I’ve had a bit of a caffeine overdose today as he just keeps making me endless cup after cup! Morgan spent the morning in his pyjamas, while I cleaned...

Water Feature Woes 0

Water Feature Woes

The new water feature that we installed last July survived the winter, despite being turned into an ice feature. I turned it on a few weeks ago and it was working fine. It’s been going well and the birds love it, I checked it on Friday and all was still well, then Saturday morning it,...

Getting the Miles in 0

Getting the Miles in

My big challenge this year is the Brontrager 24/12 in July, a 12 hour solo Mountain Bike Ride in Plymouth. I’m not aiming to be fast or do particularly well, but I would like to at least try to keep going for pretty much the whole 12 hours and at least do as many laps...

Ceredigion Moth Trapping 2011 0

Ceredigion Moth Trapping 2011

Well, it’s been a while but we managed to put the moth trap out last night for the first time this year. Up until now it has been either too wet, too cold, too windy or I’ve been too busy. Last night looked perfect though, not warm with temperatures dropping to just below 6ºC, but...

Lumicycle XPG ATL 8

Time for some new MTB lights

I’ve been having problems with my lights on the past few night rides. Despite the battery being fully charged, they only seem to last for about 2 hours at the most and then just shut off on me. The battery is 3 years old and does get quite a bit of use I suppose so...

Power To Weight Ratio 0

Ramp Test No. 3

I did a Ramp Test at the Sports and Exercise Science Dept. yesterday, just to see how my training was going and if I’d made any improvements. I did one ramp test in May 2009 as part of a study for Jon’s PhD. and another in April 2010, so thought it would be good to...