Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve just finished reading ‘The Urban Beekeeper’ a book all about Steve Benbow and his crusade to bring commercial beekeeping to London. It tracks his adventures, mishaps and business initiatives throughout the year and takes a look back at how he got into beekeeping in the first place. I didn’t realise until I started reading...
Despite living just down the road from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), we’d never been there as a family. Morgan had been with school or holiday club once, Anna had been with her Mum years ago, and I’d never set foot there. So, as it was a miserable day on Monday and we were all...
One of the things coaches and experts in the field of sports training seem to be talking about these days is the fact that most of us tend to take the hard workouts too easy and even more so, the easy workouts too hard.In effect we end up doing almost all of our workouts at...
You have to stay positive when injured – if you don’t, you’d just get depressed and this sport malarky is supposed to be fun. Of course, an injury is never much fun and the rehabilitation period is frustrating. Most of us just want to get back out there running again and all we can think...
I really shouldn’t have done it, I know I shouldn’t, but I couldn’t help myself. It was my second run after a few weeks off due to a knee injury so I should have been taking it easy. My training schedule had me down to do the following: Run: 60 min steady with 2x 6...
If only the weather would improve, this would be such a nice place to sit if it wasn’t quite so wet. The garden is looking lovely at the moment.
I’ve just found this article in my ‘Drafts’ folder that never quite got published for some reason. It was written in November 2008 and at the time I was fretting over the garden and the amount of work that would be involved to restore it. So, I thought I’d add it today, along with a few...
I don’t want to speak too soon, but after a few weeks off running due to a knee injury I’ve taken my first tentative steps towards become a fully rounded triathlete again. I’ve still be swimming and biking despite the knee injury, but to be a triathlete you need to be running as well and...
Check out Morgan’s latest cycling skills – He’s getting some lean on this bend!
Morgan and I try to get in at least one days worth of geocaching during the school holidays and always seem to enjoy ourselves. Yesterday was no exception and gave us chance to try out the Geo Bucket geocaching iPad app properly. I’d noticed that with thousands of geocaches in its database Geo Bucket seemed...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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