Surf Skiing Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/surf-skiing/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 03 Dec 2020 10:15:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Surf Skiing Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/surf-skiing/ 32 32 2696646 Stretching things a little too far https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/11/stretching-things-a-little-too-far/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/11/stretching-things-a-little-too-far/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:26:54 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=35183 Stretching my Morning Trail Run Saturday was a grey, mizzly kind of day for our first excursion for 9 months. Sunday was altogether nicer with blue skies and a crisp autumnal feel. I missed a run on Saturday as I had been a little lazy. I therefore decided to stretch my planned 50 minute Sunday...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/11/stretching-things-a-little-too-far/feed/ 1 35183 A Long Paddle and a Long Ride https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/07/a-long-paddle-and-a-long-ride/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/07/a-long-paddle-and-a-long-ride/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:35:25 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=34031 That was a nice weekend. Nice that is if you ignore the invasion of the tourists! It’s been lovely here during lockdown; everything has been peaceful and quiet, the wildlife has been loving it, the beach has been clean and tidy and the roads have been quiet. Now that lockdown has been mainly lifted here...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/07/a-long-paddle-and-a-long-ride/feed/ 1 34031 An Hour Record https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/07/an-hour-record/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/07/an-hour-record/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2020 14:13:10 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=33993 The One Hour Record Quite a few people have been posting 1 hour record times on the Performance Sea Kayak website over the past few weeks. As well as times for specific kayaking challenges that include: circumnavigations of islands such as the Isle of Man, crossings such as the North Sea and multi-day exploits such...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/07/an-hour-record/feed/ 1 33993 Up the Dyfi https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/03/up-the-dyfi/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/03/up-the-dyfi/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:49:00 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=32902 Making the most of my One Excursion per Day With the Coronavirus lock-down in full effect, we are only allowed one excursion outside to exercise each day. I thought I’d make the most of it today. The weather was forecast to be really nice. I’d already done lots of University work from home on Monday...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/03/up-the-dyfi/feed/ 3 32902 Socially Distanced Intervals in the Sunshine https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/03/socially-distanced-intervals-in-the-sunshine/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/03/socially-distanced-intervals-in-the-sunshine/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:00:36 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=32889 Today’s Socially Distanced surf ski session in the sunshine consisted of eight 0.25 mile intervals with 0.25 mile recoveries between them. The intervals were pretty tough at times so there was some sweating and dribbling involved but I was miles from anyone else with the whole of Borth Bay to myself so that wasn’t a...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/03/socially-distanced-intervals-in-the-sunshine/feed/ 0 32889 A Birthday Crack https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/12/a-birthday-crack/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/12/a-birthday-crack/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:17:34 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=27978 With the winds having finally dropped enough for us to put our giant inflatable elf out on Monday evening, it would have been remiss of me not to get out for a paddle on the sea on Tuesday – especially as it was my birthday. So, that’s exactly what I did with a nice little...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/08/surf-ski-course-in-fishguard/feed/ 0 27117 Action Packed Days Continue https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/05/action-packed-days-continue/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/05/action-packed-days-continue/#respond Tue, 29 May 2018 06:42:50 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=26616 Wow, another action packed day and on a Bank Holiday too. Open Water Swim First things first and that was to start the day with an early morning sea swim. Not too early today as it was a bank holiday but I was on the beach at Borth by 6:30am ready for a 7:00am start....

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2018/05/action-packed-days-continue/feed/ 0 26616 Sunny Surf Ski https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/12/sunny-surf-ski/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/12/sunny-surf-ski/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:55:34 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25654 After a wet and miserable day in North Wales competing in a kayak Time Trial on Llyn Padarn. Monday was a perfect day. Wall to wall sunshine, 5ºC and some lovely little waves to play in on my doorstep. I’m hoping to get the ‘North Wales Surf Ski Paddlers’ down here to Borth and Ynyslas...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/12/sunny-surf-ski/feed/ 0 25654 Santa Hats at Llyn Padarn Time Trial https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/12/santa-hats-llyn-padarn-time-trial/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/12/santa-hats-llyn-padarn-time-trial/#comments Tue, 19 Dec 2017 06:40:51 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25639 With the 2017 Welsh Cyclocross Series done and dusted I was able to head up to North Wales to join in with the Llyn Padarn Kayak Time Trial Series on Sunday instead. I’d already missed races 1,2 & 3 of this series but it’s a fairly informal affair that anyone can join in with as...

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