Archive for the ‘Buying’ Category
Present ideas (for me!)?
It’s my birthday on Tuesday (31) and I can’t think of anything I want for a present. Any ideas?
Backup plan is a Herman Miller Mirra chair.
My first Triathlon is Looming – Sooner than I Thought!
Last Tuesday (9th June) I got an e-mail in my inbox telling me that I had won a prize in a competition…
Me: Fantastic!
Reading on: The prize is free entry into a Triathlon
Me: That’s good I want to enter a Triathlon
Reading on: It’s a Sprint Triathlon – 750m swimming (in a lake), 20km cycling, 5km running)
Me: [...]
I’ve Bought a Road Bike! (Trek Madone 4.7)
I bought a new mountain bike in January and just 5 months on I’ve bought a road bike!
Over the past 18 months I have competed in several Adventure Races which are great fun, but there is always an element of luck in them because competitors can choose multiple routes. So I would like to try a [...]
Going Tubeless!
In my last Adventure Race, I got 2 punctures. The time it took me to fix them resulted in Steve and I ending up in 17th place when we should have been in around 8th place.
I think the punctures were just a result of bad luck as I was using good wheels, tyres and inner [...]
New Camera – Canon 40D!
A few months ago I heard that the Canon 450D was coming out, so I sold my Canon 350D on ebay and eagerly awaited its release.
Then once the 450D came out I did a little research (here and on other websites and magazines) and found out that the 40D (which had been out for a [...]