Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Fartlek is always a funny word for us and when included with the word ‘windy’ I guess it’s a little funnier, but a fartlek session what I had planned for yesterdays main training session so that’s what I did. For those who don’t know what it means, Wikipedia have it defined as: Fartlek, which means “speed...
I’m not impressed with the new Garmin Connect updates. The calendar part of their online offerings used to be one of the best as far as at a glance viewing of your training was concerned. They had lovely colour coding of different activity types, a brief overview of each of your activities and a weekly...
I got to play with a new feature of the TrainerRoad Beta software yesterday. The feature called TrainerRelay allow you to re-broadcast your virtual power data from TrainerRoad on your PC to a head unit such as my Garmin Forerunner 910XT watch. This essentially gives me a power meter that I can use to train with. TrainerRoad...
I’ve visited the Isle of Man many times now, sometimes with surfing kit, other times with windsurfing kit, once or twice with kitesurfing kit and yet others with Mountain Bikes. I’ve windsurfed, surfed, kite-surfed and mountain biked all over the island, I’ve done the Isle of Man End2End MTB race twice, but I’ve never been...
After 5 days with some sort of lurgy that never really came to anything I’ve just done my first training session. 5 days without training may not sound like much, but it was actually 6 days as the day before I started feeling ill was a rest day and to me it seems like ages....
It’s my first race of the year on Sunday, the Pwllheli Triathlon and annoyingly I’ve come down with some sort of pre-race lurgy. Headache, sore throat, cough and aching all over – exactly what I don’t need. I had a rest day yesterday and have taken a day off training today as well, but unless I make...
I have to confess that most of my training seems to have been indoors lately. I’ve been on the turbo trainer loads thanks to TrainerRoad as it is much quicker and easier to fit in a turbo trainer session than it is to go out in the real world. It is also more controllable so the...
The software that prompted me to upgrade to Mountain Lion had an update to it earlier in the week. Rubitrack is a training diary and fitness tracker for the mac that keeps track of all the training I do. I changed to it from Ascent when I upgraded to Mountain Lion mainly because it was...
I wasn’t competing in the INTRtri St David’s Day Aquathlon at the weekend. Mainly because I didn’t want to, but also because it then means as a committee member of the club I could help out with marshalling on the day. I’m not that keen to compete simply because it is too early in the...
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Ha, who’d have thought it – I’m being used in an advert for Beet-it Sport, the ‘beetroot stamina shot’ aimed at cyclists and triathletes. I’ve been using it myself for a while and have been one of the ‘pro performance athletes‘ since last year but now they are using a photo of me in...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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