Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Sunday was a nice busy day for us – just for a change! As usual it started fairly early for me at around 6am when I got up, checked e-mails etc. and had some breakfast before heading off to Machynlleth in Anna’s Fiat 500 hire car for a run. My planned session was a fairly easy one...
Who’d would have thought it, after a solid twelve hours under wall to wall sunshine in the garden yesterday, there were some snow flurries on my run this morning! It was pretty chilly out there running around the hills behind Machynlleth but I managed to cover 9 miles up and over a pretty big hill....
Fartlek is always a funny word for us and when included with the word ‘windy’ I guess it’s a little funnier, but a fartlek session what I had planned for yesterdays main training session so that’s what I did. For those who don’t know what it means, Wikipedia have it defined as: Fartlek, which means “speed...
Sunday was the final full day of our trip to the Isle of Man and we had several geocaching records that we could try to beat. Number of caches in a day – current record = 15 Number of consecutive days with finds – current record = 6 Most finds in a month – current...
You may not have noticed by my lack of posts about running here but once again I haven’t been running due to injury. I had to stop running last year at the end of July due to knee pain which then became shin pain and a suspected stress fracture. An MRI scan didn’t show too...
I’ve not long got back from a lovely early morning run. The run itself wasn’t anything spectacular – I’m still suffering with a chesty cough and as it was a cold frosty morning I decided to take it easy and stuck to a gentle jog all the way around my 6.5 mile loop, but it...
I’ve been using the Vibram FiveFingers I was given a little bit since I’ve been back from New Zealand and I think I like them! As I’ve said before you need to start off slowly with such things and do some short runs in them at first and then gradually build the volume and intensity of your...
Day 15 of our trip to New Zealand started early for me – There’s nothing unusual there, most days start early for me and when in such a beautiful place I want to make the most of it by grabbing every hour that I can. I started off by going out for a run whilst...
I awoke fairly early in our idyllic campsite on the banks of the Waitangi River, just as it was getting light in fact. I got into my running kit and headed off for a nice easy jog along the Waitangi River Trail. The trail crosses the Haruru Falls and follows the river for a while...
Thanks to the kind people at TriBlogs and Vibram, I recently received a pair of Vibram FiveFingers so that I could use them and blog about them. You’ve probably seen Vibram FiveFingers before – they are the odd looking shoes with individual toes and they are developing a bit of a cult following amongst those...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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