Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As part of my rest day before the Big Cow Triathlon we had decided to go for a walk in Salcey Forest which wasn’t far from the Hotel we were staying at in Northampton. We hadn’t been there before so we went armed with some geocaches to look for and planned to walk along the...
I’m not sure if there was an official race photographer at the Big Cow Triathlon on Sunday. Anna took one or two photos of me though which I added to my race report as did my Dad so here are a few of his photos from the event.
We managed to miss out on all of the Olympic Torch Relay festivities in Aberystwyth over the weekend as we were away in Northampton for me to compete in the Big Cow Triathlon, but fortunately it was passing close to us on Monday morning. The roads to school were going o be disrupted so the...
May 27th 2012, Big Cow Triathlon, one of my ‘A Priority’ races this year and something I’d been working hard towards for months. I’m still relatively new to this triathlon malarky having only started last year and this was my first big, higher profile race. Not only were there close to 1000 competitors, many more...
Those of you who know me or read this blog regularly will know that I’ve been training hard for triathlons this year. The weekend just gone was the first of two big races I had planned so everything had been gearing up ready for the weekend. Training had been going well, I’d put in the hard work,...
Ann from the Aberystwyth Bee Keepers Association gave me some goose eggs last time we were up at her house. We went and took them straight from the goose nest and Morgan got to see a day old hatchling while we were there. They are huge, much bigger than a hens egg, and Ann suggested...
I have always avoided making Yorkshire puddings as I seemed to think they were too difficult to get right but thanks to Jamie Oliver and a recipe in his Ministry of Food book I now have a fail safe method which works every time. Even Morgan can make them. I’ve adjusted the recipe so that...
I’ve got a triathlon coming up at the weekend, the first of my ‘big’ races this year. It’s not big in terms of distance as it is still a sprint distance triathlon, but it is a higher profile event with considerably more entrants than the previous races I;ve done. The entrants are also on a...
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