Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
must be completely mad! I’ve just signed up to do the ‘Sleepless in the Saddle‘ Mountain Bike race in August. Its a 24 hour race around Catton park in Derbyshire, but don’t worry I’m not quite mad enough to be doing it solo but will be doing it as part of a 4 man team....
Sunday morning dawned bright and clear with a little bit of surf, so rather than waste the morning watching the Grand Prix and to give Jay a little rest before the second ride of the weekend we went for a nice little Stand-up-Paddle board session at Ynyslas. Jay couldn’t quite stand-up so had a knee-down...
I had another action packed weekend here in Wales. Now that I have a new bike, my brother Jay came to visit so that he could borrow my old bike and come out for a couple of mountain-bike rides with me. He used to be a fairly handy cyclist, racing on and off the road,...
Now that the clocks have gone forward there is plenty of time for getting out and making the most of the light in the evenings. The weather was gorgeous yesterday so Anna, Morgan and I took a stroll across to the dunes. A recent report said that children don’t get to spend nearly as much...
After a long search and several unsuccessful missions, air28uk has finally found our Assume Nothing #2 geocache. These Assume Nothing caches are supposed to be a little difficult and tricky and judging by his log, the persistence paid off and made the eventual find all the more satisfying. This is the log entry: Location: United...
I feel as though I’ve had a fairly productive weekend here. There was enough wind for windsurfing on Saturday, but my chest was still a little sore so I started the day by installing our two new water butts instead. All went to plan and the fact that it was raining whilst I installed them...
Well, after signing up to the Dyfi Enduro a few weeks ago I had intended to do some training for it, get a little fitter on the bike and maybe loose some weight in the process. The plan was to do at least 3 rides a week, a couple of swims, maybe some ‘core-exercises’ such...
Is there something out there?
I had the unexpected pleasure of spending a couple of days in the Cardiac Monitoring Unit at Bronglais Hospital last week. I had some pains in my chest on Wednesday which got worse overnight and didn’t improve on Thursday. Normally I’d put such things down to a pulled muscle or some other injury sustained whilst,...
Hope you all like the new design of the site… I wanted to have a change and also make links to the latest comments a bit more visible. These can now bee seen in the column on the right. It also allowed me to add a few extra things to the columns on the right...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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