Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After a fitfull sleep my day started at 4:30am with a caffeinated coffee, porridge and Beet-it beetroot juice for breakfast. This was followed by a shower and getting my stuff ready to go. I then walked down through Auckland CBD to transition area with Graham and Sharon at 5:30am, had my helmet checked and started setting...
I can’t quite believe the number of gadgets we have packed ready for our trip to New Zealand: Garmin Forerunner 910XT GPS watch and Heart Rate monitor for training with. Camera – Canon EOS 450D complete with extra battery pack, 3 lenses and various bits and pieces Camera – Pentax Optio W60 – Little waterproof compact...
Not being a seasoned traveller I’ve never had the need for any flight tracking apps on my iPad but with an impending trip to New Zealand on the horizon I thought I’d check some out and ended up using Flight+, a really clever app designed to track and manage flights all around the world. It’s really...
~ Monday Oct. 15th – Ready to Go ~ We are all packed and ready to go on the biggest trip of our lives. Packing seems to have taken a while but we are now pretty much done and just want to go today, but we have one more day of work / school before...
One week to go until the biggest race of my life – The ITU World Triathlon Championships in Auckland, and I’m still here in wet, grey, dreary West Wales. I won’t actually get to Auckland until Thursday afternoon and the race is early on Monday morning so I only have a few days to adjust...
Too clever by far!!! Nice to see some shots of unconventional riding in Bristol too.
We spent last weekend at Scout Camp down the coast a little. We spent the week leading up to it organising things and then set off with tents and camping kit straight from school on Friday afternoon, heading for a muddy field south of Newquay. We made a quick stop at Llanrhystud for some sand...
With the World Triathlon Championships race fast approaching I wanted to say thanks and give some exposure to the companies, organisations and people who have sponsored and supported me financially. As you can imagine, training for, get to and competing in a World Championship event in New Zealand is an expensive undertaking. So, shortly after I qualified...
Well, yesterday was pretty wet, it rained non-stop all day with 30.8mm of rain according to the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station. Not a record, that still stands at 55.8mm on October 1st 2006 but plenty of rain all the same.
I can’t quite remember if I’ve blogged about Strava.com before, but if not, I should have. It’s yet another website that allows you to upload your GPS data from cycling and running sessions. You can record this data on a GPS device such as my Garmin Forerunner 910XT or a GPS enabled Mobile such as...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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