Fitness for life's adventures
For Christmas 2014 I was given a pair of Rapha Winter Gloves, but they were a size Large, which was just a little too snug for my hands. Unfortunately, given the weather was way more wintry than what we saw in late 2015, they’d sold out of the larger sizes, so I didn’t get to …
Having been frustrated by the short-lived experience with the Garmin Fenix, I started looking around for alternatives. Garmin’s Vivoactive was ticking all of the right boxes and was getting good reviews, but I was reluctant to commit to another Garmin ‘trial’ – I need to be recording my training, not trying to work out how …
So the intention to do the 2016 Wimbleball 70.3 Ironman was set back in August 2015 and I spent the last few months of the year upping my exercise regime to give me a good baseline going into 2016. Looking at the positives, I definitely improved my base fitness quite significantly. I joined the gym …
In my experience, of friends who have used them, Garmin devices are either absolutely fantastic or immensely frustrating. When they work, they do an excellent job, but they are so prevalent that you’d expect a few people to have niggles with them… and bad press always trumps good news when people want to share their …
Preparing the ash strips for the core (in part 1 of the build) was time-consuming and wasn’t the quantum leap forward in the snowboard build that Charlie was hoping for. But taking those strips and glueing them together would give us some very tangible… the core!! Deciding what glue to use was the first challenge …
So… we’re making a snowboard… to coin a well-used phrase “How hard can that be”… We definitely have the skills here at Mombee, so we just need to find the time away from the day-job and (in Charlie’s case) school to get things under way. First things first… many thanks to the chaps at Noahs …
Chilli is great for adding taste to food and if you start to think of it as the savoury equivalent to sugar, you can start to shift some of your diet from sugary to savoury. I suspect that there’s some science behind this – with chilli offering a similar additive ‘high’ to sugar (I’m sure …
Tip 1 – The first thing I did last year was to use the “My Fitness Pal” smartphone app to help me track exactly what I was consuming… it was so easy to imagine that a Twix here and there is a low-calorie pick-me-up, or that a latte is the same as a black Americano. It’s …
Finding good and tasty low-calorie meals can be challenging… more so when you’re pushed for time to prepare things… and even more so when you’re trying to maintain a good level of protein in the meal. So I was delighted when I stumbled across a smoked haddock and spinach gratin recipe on the Lavender and …
The joys of bike cleaning… Winter biking can kill your pride and joy, or rather if you leave your bike mouldering in a damp shed under several inches grit and slime every time you get back from a ride, then you will kill your bike. Most bikes will shake off no end of truly atrocious …