My 2020 Bike – not really a Cervelo R5 review

A bit of Shimano, a bit of Trek, blended with Cervelo gives my 2020 climbing bike.

SunGod Vanguard Review 🏂 Custom ski snowboard goggles

SunGod Vanguard Review: Detailed look at a well-priced, high spec & customisable pair of goggles for ski or board. SunGod Vanguard Review Cylindrical lens

Best Running Watch 2019 🥇 Top 10 | Guide Recommend & Compare

Best Running Watch – Top 10, Full Guide, Recommendations & Comparisons of all models, updated through 2020. Garmin, Polar, Apple…more

Favero bePRO Power Meter Pedals - Carbon Cranks

Best Power Meter Pedals

Best Power Meter Pedals 🥇 Compare Garmin Favero PowerTap SRM

2019 Update: Power Meter Pedals are the best choice for most bike riders. Garmin? Favero? PowerTap? Which is best? Let’s see…

Review / Running Power Meter / STRYD Review

STRYD Review 2019 🥇 STRYD Bible | Running Power Meter Footpod, Detailed

Detailed STRYD Review, Running Power Meter Pod, updated for 2019. Discount Code & Promotion if seasonally available

NPE Runn 50% Off Discount on second treadmill sensor

Special offer right now 50% off a second device this coming weekend AND another 10% off both with the code THE5KRUNNER.

Hammerhead Karoo – New Map Tweaks

New Firmware for the Hammerhead Karoo delivers readability tweaks to maps in several scenarios as well as new TrainingPeaks integration.

IMUK Ironman UK Bike course 2020

Here we have the 2020 Ironman UK bike course,

Best CIQ Apps 2020 – Nominees

Every year we select the Best of CIQ across a range of categories. There are some great nominees for this year’s awards and those of you who looked closely at last year’s winners might, like me, still have the award-winning Crystal Watch Face adorning your Garmin. Before we dive into this year nominees, take a…

Humon Hex * Closes *

Humon today announced that they are closing their doors – I’ll cover the impact on HEX users in a minute. For those who want it, the full communique from Humon is shown further below. Background The Humon Hex is a muscle oxygen sensor, delivering athlete-metrics along a very similar vein to the existing Moxy product…

Fossil – Facebook could buy Fossil and enter the wearables market? SPECULATION

OK folks, this is pure speculation but there are some strange goings-on with Fossil’s share price so let me quickly outline how I put 2 and 2 together to make 4 and a half. The first 2. Fossil’s earnings are tanking. November 2019 saw Y.O.Y earnings down 11%. You can find analyst reports like this…

STRAVA | 3 Billion Uploads

STRAVA hit 3bn workout uploads and 50m registered users. The only way is up for cyclists’ favourite data platform.

Garmin 945 FW Now Live (Forerunner 245 too)

We talked about some exciting new beta firmware for the Garmin Forerunner 945 last week. Some of which also made its way on to the Forerunner 245 betas too. Now it’s all live and you should be able to get the new stuff either via Garmin Connect Mobile or Garmin Express. Here’s the summary of…

Polar H9 Review HRM chest strap H10 oh1 h7

Polar H9 Review | H10 Chest Strap Comparison, Best Polar HRM

Polar H9 Review – A detailed look through the new features in Polar’s latest, best-value Bluetooth heart rate monitor

Garmin Advanced Swim Features | new to 945 & Fenix 6 Series

Garmin beef up their top-end Fenix 6 & Forerunner 945 models with some great new swim features.

Stages Power Meter Review Shimano Ultegra

new Stages Gen 3 Firmware Update

Stages infrequently issue firmware updates as their PM product set is generally pretty stable in my experience (Gen 3). However this one dropped last week and might well be worth updating to if, perhaps, you were experiencing right-side power spike issues. Enabling the gyroscope is only possible with the Android app and only possible solely…

Shimano buys Pioneer Cycle Sports

Pioneer Announces Transfer of Cycle Sports Business Shimano is potentially back in the bike head unit market with the acquisition of what looks to be Pioneer’s entire bicycling components business (assets). As the press release says: Pioneer Announces Transfer of Cycle Sports Business Pioneer Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement to…

Alistair Brownlee Wants to buy Ironman from Wanda |

The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) last week appointed Alistair Brownlee and others as directors. Yesterday, 3rd Feb 2020, the PTO made an open offer to Wanda Group to enter into discussions to acquire the IRONMAN® business from the Wanda Sports Group Company, with the offer backed by funding from by North Point Advisors. Paraphrased, the…

Garmin Widget Glances on the 945 and beyond

Garmin Widget Glances have just made their way to your Forerunner 945. We take a detailed look and add som ethoughts for the future.

NPE Runn Review | Zwift Garmin Smart Sensor for Treadmills

NPE Runn Review – the pros, cons & details of everything Zwift & Treadmill related

parkrun world record broken |

Charlotte Arter delivered an awesome 15 minutes 49 seconds at Cardiff parkrun and broke her own parkrun world record to boot. Here is Charlotte’s result: links to parkrun.org.uk And in more detail, this is her parkrun athlete profile: links to parkrun.org.uk. Tip: If you want to see your own stats one way to do it…

Garmin Virtual Run – First Run – on Zwift Through to STRAVA

Garmin Virtual Run – My First Run on Zwift on Teanu and sending the stats through through to STRAVA. A pleasant but solitary experience

Galerdo – Swim Tracker with Audio

Galerdo Swim Tracker with Audio OK the Galerdo swim tracker is a Kickstarter project but it looked interesting if you are putting in those miles in the pool in pursuit of your IM dream and need a bit of light entertainment coupled with audio feedback of some key metrics.. More details on Galerdo Swim Tracker: …