Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
One of the main reasons I didn’t want to go flat out in the Dyfi Dash Sprint Triathlon race on Sunday was the fact that doing so usually takes quite a bit out of me. It sounds silly for a race that only lasts just over an hour but if I give it everything I...
I’m doing my best to stick to my new plan of increasing my training a little as the race season gets ever closer. As well as my large scale annual periodisation in which I’m trying something new, I also have a meso-scale pattern within my training where I do a 3 week cycle. This consists of...
Seeing as I did a Hilly Hogmanay Half Marathon last year I had decided to do something similar this year. We were away in St David’s though so I couldn’t do the same route, nor could I do it on New Years Eve so instead I did it first thing on New Years Day. I...
Everyone else seems to have had some sort of lurgy lately. Stomach bugs and colds seem to be rife and half of Morgan’s school was off ill one day. Morgan wasn’t quite right himself the other day, Anna’s Mum was coughing and spluttering whilst she was here and work colleagues have all been ill too....
I’ve been doing MAF style training during the winter months for the last few years now, but I’m beginning to think that although the concept is a good one, that the actual MAF method doesn’t work for me. With that in mind it was time to put my thoughts into a blog post. What is...
Hot on the heels of my FTP Test on the bike on Monday, it was time to monitor progress (or lack of) in my running by performing a MAF Test. MAF, a term coined by Dr. Phil Maffetone stands for Maximum Aerobic Function – I won’t go into it here as I have a post planned about it...
I got a bit carried away on my ‘long run’ on Sunday. I went just over 14 miles in the end, the furthest I’ve ever run. It didn’t feel too bad either and was generally just under 8min/mile pace, except for the one big climb which was quite slow and the slippery descent afterwards which was even slower. Not...
Many of my friends were planning a trail run in Pennal Forest on Sunday morning. I would have joined them but they weren’t starting until 9am and I wanted to be finished by then so that I could swim in the pool in Machynlleth. However, Shem had marked out the route with little yellow markers...
I think I must have unusually robust ears as I seem to get through earphones for my iPod in no time at all. I’m forever replacing them so have recently resorted to buying cheap ones from the £1 shop as then it doesn’t matter if I break them. It was quite nice the other day...
Thankfully I may have overreacted in my frustration at twisting my ankle whilst on a run last Wednesday. Following the injury I rested it completely on Wednesday and Thursday and by the evening the swelling had subsided somewhat. I was going to get on the Turbo Trainer regardless on Friday as I didn’t think that...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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