Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Day 5 of our drive transformation and the heavy machinery was out in force. Once again we couldn’t be there as we were at work, but we left salted caramel chocolate brownies out for the workmen and headed off to work. It turned out to be a lovely sunny day for the workmen, if a little...
Coast Path Vital Stats Llywngwril to Talybont Distance: 14.53 miles Elevation Gain Today: 454m Highest Elevation: 313m Time: 2:26:58 Av. Pace: 10:07 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: Max Heart Rate: Calories: 1583 Totals to Date Total Distance Completed: 77.27 miles Total Time: 13:34:56 Total Elevation Gain: 2904m Total Calories: 8067 Distance to go: 801 miles The plan for Saturday’s Coast...
Storm Imogen has been raging all day. We knew it was coming and the winds and rains started last night, they soon reached the stage where we could no longer hear the TV over the noise of the storm so we retired to bed hoping for the best, having had various flood warnings. We’ve had...
Coast Path Vital Stats Aberdovey to Llywngwril Distance: 14.12 miles Elevation Gain Today: 389m Highest Elevation: 174m Time: 2:25:13 Av. Pace: 10:17 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 127bpm Max Heart Rate: 154bpm Calories: 1311 Totals to Date Total Distance Completed: 62.74 miles Total Time: 11:07:58 Total Elevation Gain: 2591m Total Calories: 6484 Distance to go: 813 miles Another weekend and...
Coast Path Vital Stats Machynlleth to Aberdovey Distance: 15.71 miles Elevation Gain Today: 664m Highest Elevation: 261m Time: 2:35:43 Av. Pace: 10:20 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 140bpm Max Heart Rate: 171bpm Calories: 1489 Totals to Date Total Distance Completed: 48.62 miles Total Time: 8:42:45 Total Elevation Gain: 2202m Total Calories: 5173 Distance to go: 825 miles Stage...
Coast Path Vital Stats Aberystwyth to Tre Ddol Distance: 11.78 miles Total Elevation Gain: 433m Highest Elevation: 116m Time: 2:03:41 Av. Pace: 10:30 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 138bpm Max Heart Rate: 161bpm Calories: 1248 Following on from my run along the Coast path from Llanrhystud to Aberystwyth last weekend, I thought I’d continue with it today with a...
Coast Path Vital Stats Llanrhystud to Aberystwyth Distance: 9.93 miles Total Elevation Gain: 562m Highest Elevation: 158m Time: 1:54:51 Av. Pace: 11:34 mins/mile Av. Heart Rate: 139bpm Max Heart Rate: 180bpm Calories: 1199 I’ve just got back from running along the Llanrhystud to Aberystwyth Coast Path. Not that unusual for me to be up to...
The beached Whale at Ynyslas has been removed today. I just so happened to notice a digger go past the house whilst I was vacuuming the living room and thought to myself that it was probably going to the estuary for a spot of whale removal. So, after my chores and an hour of easy...
Happy New Year everyone, 2016 was upon us so we had to get out and do something, and we had to find a geocache so as to complete the “Goodbye 2015, Hello 2016” geocaching souvenir. Our target for the day was the Hafod Estate and several geocaches there. I would have liked to have gone...
I think 2015 may have been our best year yet as far as geocaching records go. We’ve just finished the year off with two fairly quick and easy geocaches in a very wet and muddy Penglanowen Woods near Nanteos Mansion. None of the geocaches themselves were that notable but it’s a lovely little woodland than...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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