Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Just got back from a lovely windsurf session in the estuary at Ynyslas. Its that time of year when Ivor, our local katabatic wind is on top form and with a gentle NE wind forecast and sunny skies he was up to his usual tricks. Funneling down the valley at 30-35 knots making for perect...
I haven’t had it long so this isn’t a full review, but my new digital camera arrived the other day so here are my first impressions. After some deliberation over which waterproof digital camera to get I chose a Pentax Optio W60 as a second, go anywhere camera to compliment my Canon EOS 450D SLR...
I’ve been quite pleased with my Mountain Bike maintenance skills lately. I took the rear hub apart on my Commencal Meta 5.5 the other day and gave it a good clean and re-grease and last week it was time to service the air can and check the seals on my rear shock. Jon wanted to...
Some guy producing a guidebook contacted Dave asking for some photos of people riding the trails at Nant yr Arian, so instead of a normal early morning ride we had planned to meet up for a bit of a photo shoot. We had hoped for a few people but it was just Dave and I...
After taking Morgan for a swimming lesson yesterday morning, in which he didn’t do as asked as usual, we heaed off for a walk in Penglais Woods where there was a special craft day going on. We had a nice little walk along the footpath from the entrance opposite the university and then in a...
I think I need to make a trip to Scotland soon. There are loads of really good mountain biking centres there and the new Red Run on Ben Nevis opens soon, June 24th to be precise. It is graded as a Red, XC route, but has a Gondola uplift to the start at 643m, and...
It isn’t available yet, but the new Garmin Foreunner 310Xt looks like an intersting bit of kit. I have a few GPS devices already and love my Garmin Foreunner 305, this just take it to another level, being more rugged and waterproof. Finally, a GPS-enabled training device that isn’t afraid of the water. The rugged...
I’ve been Twittering using Tweetdeck for a while, but now that I administer several Twitter accounts (a personal account, accounts for websites I maintain and company accounts, as well as one for ‘Designing Libraries’ where I work on Monday’s and Wednesdays), it was getting used less and less and I tended to rely on Twitterfox...
Day 7 of my lab tests for a Sports and Exercise Science study yesterday and Jon said it would be a test at one of the extremes. I’m not allowed to know beforehand what the intensity is though. 3 minutes in and the resistance increases and it was obvious that this was at maximum resistance...
Yep, that’s right, for my sins I’m a freelance website designer. Actually its a great job for funding my ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ as it allows me to be pretty flexible, it is also a fairly interesting job in its own way and no two days are ever the same. That said, most days do...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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