Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’m not about to say that West Wales can compete on the world stage with the likes of Maui, Fiji or Cape Verde, but on its day, when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining then it can be pretty good. Today was one of those days. Clear blue skies, blue water and...
Those of you who know Aberystwyth will know that it isn’t always the most up to date place, but we had promised Morgan we’d take him 10 pin bowling. Unbelievable there is a choice of two places to go, one in Llanbadarn that I’d been to a couple of times before and one in the...
The busy week here continues… We’ll tell you more about some of the things we’ve been doing later, but I did manage to squeeze in the weekly Ystwyth MTB club night ride last night and actually remembered to take some photos too. So, for those of you who wonder why we put ourselves through the...
Every year Information Services at Aberystwyth University arrange several ‘away days’. As a part time member of staff there I’m entitled to go on one and have half a day off. The options include things such as shopping in Chester, Go Karting, visits to gardens and Andrew (who works with me) had organised a cycling...
It was our wedding anniversary yesterday so we bundled Morgan off to school and arranged for him to go home with a friend, took the day off work and had a day out together. We had planed to walk up Cadair Idris in the sunshine but typically the day started off with pouring rain. It...
Don’t want to worry anyone (least of all myself), but it is only 38 days to Sleepless in the Saddle 2009. For those who don’t know, it is a 24 hour mountain bike race around Catton Park in Derbyshire and as a I’m a glutton for punishment I’ve signed up to do it. Sounds hardcore,...
Following on from a successful air can service on our Fox Float shocks, Jon and I decided the other day to do a wiper seal clean and lube on our forks. These things should be done every 15 hours of riding according tot the official Fox service intervals so it was time to do them....
The scene was set, End of Month ride at Afan Argoed. I met Jon, Dave and Dan at the leisure centre, we put the bikes on the racks and headed off to South Wales for a planned ride around the W2 trail. Jon and I stopped off for a Burger King breakfast on the way...
It’s official, it’s a scorcher. The weather station here at Borth and Ynsylas has recorded 27.1ºC today, the hottest day of the year so far.
This weeks Ystwyth-MTB night ride was in the Dyfi Forest. Just Dave, Jon and myself this week and as Dave and Jon are pretty fast I had a pretty hard ride doing my best to keep up. It was a good ride in lovely conditions, hot and sunny. A little too hot really but we...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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