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The journal
Nope, I’m not talking about borrowing money to pay of credit card debts. I’m talking about The Fitbit 🙂 and balancing the amount of calories you eat against the calories you burn through exercise. The Fitbit rates your exercise levels into 4 levels, sedentary, lightly, fairly & very active. Very active is shown as red […]
Here is the guy clearing the entrance to my apartment in Les Gets this morning. Oh how I would love to have such a machine 🙂 High winds prevented access to the Northern slopes of Mont Chéry today, so hopefully lots of new runs there tomorrow. Here is the scene at the mid station today: […]
Oh dear it has been officially noted that I’m been very lazy. Just received this from Amazon:- We noticed your blog (listed below) has not updated for more than 30 days. Kindle customers expect to receive frequent updates for blogs and news feeds to which they subscribe. Because blogs should update at least once per […]
Tonight the annual Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge event kicked of with a session on the Future of Education. Six panelists outlined their vision of educations future in ten minutes or so each, I captured the audio and made rough notes using my LiveScribe pen. The full commentary is now live here. My take on […]
Sally and I dedicated October to walking The Lycian Way in Turkey. In 23 walking days we managed to do 262 miles of the 318 , so we walked around 82% of the route including both ends. Section’s we missed are:- The day from Akmel to Gelemis. Although we did walk most of it the […]
Starting to get concerned about walking 300miles in temperatures above 30 degrees centigrade! There is a good write up from some who did The Lycian Way earlier this year here http://bit.ly/qWhrOV I’ve ‘borrowed’ their GPS trail and put it in the Gaia GPS iPhone app and also on my etrex unit! Let’s see ho often […]
Yesterday was the final day of the Jesus Green pool swimming season 🙁 with my use of the iPhone Daily Data Tracker application I know that I swam 69 times since the opening day on the 14th May. In the 69 visits I swam a grand total of 35.78 miles ( 630 lengths), I didn’t […]
Congratulations to Renata & Steve and a warm welcome to my third Grandchild 🙂 Oliver Jones born at 12.03pm on Sunday 4th September weighing in at 3.52Kg (7.7lbs). And the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.
Tonight I christen my new birthday sleeping mat from Sally The tent is safely pitched in the garden of Yann Cornic at his gite in Saint Lizier gite in Saint Lizier Last night I was sharing a room with Michael and Cherie? In the slightly hippy gite at Esbints learning about sheep dogs and farming […]
Having walked 51 miles in the past three days and with over 18,000 feet of ascent and descent on the GR10. Last nights storms & heavy rain this morning gave me a good reason to spend an idle day here in the luxury of La mason du Valier 🙂 Yesterdays highlight was been only feet […]