It’s pretty. It feels good on the wrist. It comes from a LONG line of great Polar products. But is it any good? Polar’s M430 is a notable upgrade to Europe’s best-selling M400 from late 2014. As an upgraded product it certainly seems to have much less of the niggles present in other newly…
Garmin Fenix 5 series review and critique of Garmin Fenix 5X, 5, 5S and Forerunner 935 multisport / triathlon watches
Many of us predicted last year that 2017 would be a good year for STRYD as Running With Power gains more mass acceptance. That seems to be coming true.
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IRONMAN UK (BOLTON, 2017) Having gone though an ‘Age Group’ triathlon/duathlon phase in previous years it was always going to be interesting comparing that experience to the parallel ‘big event’ experience of a branded Ironman. The purpose of this post is just to briefly explain the event and then give a little insight into MY training, in…
XERT make several clever Garmin CIQ apps/data fields and they just come out with another one. It’s cleverly entitled “What’s My FTP” I occasionally witter on to people who are half-listening about there not being the need to do an FTP test unless you really want to. XERT have approached this differently to how I calculate…
We’ve obviously had the 920XT replaced by the 935 and the Fenix 3 replaced by the Fenix 5. What about the other Garmin sports watches? The summer gadget drought is upon us. Next upon us will probably be the Edge 1030 and Vector 3 probably announced a few weeks ahead of the INTERBIKE show which…
I’ll take that weather. A little bit of everything more than I’d like (rain, temp wind) but fine and could have easily been a whole lot worse. Although knowing the West Coast it still may well be worse yet. I have my new deeper rimmed front wheel, a Mavic CXR 60, on the front and an…
This seems like a good idea. Not quite for me but I know some of you will love these bands from this startup: Author: Ben Sharp (Pacebands.co.uk) Pacebands.co.uk exists to offer runners an effective, affordable pacing solution, delivered to your door with minimum hassle. Pacebands are simple, disposable wristbands which list the time at which…
We are half way through the year and quite a few interesting devices have already reared their generally pretty heads over the parapet. With notable reservations the best so far is the 935. But what else is to come? A bit more detail on this topic is (here) but I’ll cover the main hopes left…
Here’s one of the data fields on the 935 that I had overlooked for various reasons although I did cover it a little (here) on the new Firstbeat features. You can find it in on your device under ‘other fields’ along with other gems such as ‘battery status’.. The Performance condition field is actually updated…
