Retail Pricing Both the Polar Vantage M and Polar Vantage V are available NOW for pre-order with delivery in late October. Vantage M : $/€279.00 Vantage V: $/€499.90 Vantage V (H10 Bundle): $/€549.90 Vantage M does not need H10 MORE INFO: You can find all related posts listed in this tag as I add them…
The new Oura Ring is a sleep and activity tracker. It is like the original Oura Ring but with a significant makeover both in terms of the physical appearance of the ring as well as with the app. I’m in the process now of writing up a more detailed “new Oura Ring Review“. For now,…
This post is a HVMN Ketone Review covering a claimed new fuel source for enhancing the performance of endurance athletes. Tour de France (2018) has just finished and apparently several of the riders were using HVMN Ketone. I’ve just been experimenting with some too. I will point you to some of the science but will…
Biblical in its depth and coverage this Garmin Fenix 5S Review takes a detailed look at the most featured smart sports watch adding numerous insights for the interested reader
Continually Updated – A comprehensive look at ** ALL** the best running watches with music across the entire running watch market. this Best Running Watch Music guide looks at ALL the contenders
Dartford Heath parkrun Situated in south east London / Kent, not far from the M25, Dartford Heath parkrun is a lovely two-lap course, entirely on flat trail paths. The nearest car park to the start line, on Heath Lane, is very small and will probably be full by 8.30am. Car parking is a bit…
This is one of those ‘YAY days’. I tried something a bit techy & convoluted and it all worked out. What I tried to do It was my first run for a while to check out my Achilles (mostly OK, thank you for asking). Also with RunScribe Plus now going LIVE with their “Sensor Fusion”…
In this Thule UpRide 599 Review we will look in detail at Thule’s top-end, roof-mounted bike rack. The UpRide 599 is a premium bike rack but does that premium justify the design? Is it easy to install on your car roof? How quickly can you get a bike on and off? It looks a little…
I have been using the Vantage a lot for cycling over the last week and a bit. Mostly because of riding a lot (over 30 hours) but also because of not being able to run too much at all. This post is more of an update of some of the info I have got from…
V2.036 – 24 September 2018 Hmmm. This has been a quieter month than I thought, although things are starting to hot up. Withings has bought Withings (errr). It’s a long story and a slightly old one too. However after buying back Withings from Nokia, Withings are now releasing a sports watch. It does look as…
RunScribe have finally announced today that the longstanding ‘sensor fusion‘ beta process is finished – ie Sensor Fusion is LIVE. This means that the pace/distance calculations should now be notably more accurate if you are coming from a previous non-beta version. I am assuming that this will also feed through into a more refined…
The choice for the best power meter pedals was, until recently, limited to Garmin Vector, Favero Assioma and Powertap P1. SRM EXACT pedals are now available for pre-order. You can now pre-order the SRM LOOK EXACT pedals from Power Meter City. Headlines: Claimed +/- 1.5% accuracy BLE + ANT+ 100 Hour battery from a 5…
I’ve got a juicy rumour (fact) to share. I’ll call it a rumour for now as I can only titillate rather than tell you who it is. The only real WearOS sports watch is still the M600. But now there is another WearOS sports watch on the cards but this time it will be using…
The new Polar Vantage M and Polar Vantage V have finally hit the communications channels on the net…if not quite yet the shops (late October). A Polar Vantage Review will not follow until late October and that will be with a proper production model not this beta unit. This post gives a detailed, tabular comparison…
This is the Polar Vantage M. The looks are very similar to the more expensive V model. Colours are basic and only offered in 3 and I understand that the RED colour is only available directly from Polar. That’s my last favourite of the three. Polar thought that there is a wider desire to customise…
We have two completely new and different watches both branded Polar Vantage. The Polar Vantage V is the top-end model and effectively replaces the V800. I would call it a triathlon watch and a pro running watch. The Polar Vantage M is still a ‘pro’ running watch and it’s still a triathlon watch too. In…
It’s relatively early days yet for me with the new Polar Vantage V and Polar Vantage M. REMEMBER: I have been using late beta hardware. I am also using firmware v0.35 – which is numbered as beta firmware. These are a few charts to give you a flavour of what I’ve experienced when swimming, biking…
Polar are targeting their new Vantage M and Vantage M models at ‘proper’ athletes. We shall see in some of the other posts publishing today that this involves some cool new hardware and software features. This post specifically looks at Running Power which Polar have rightly identified as one of the trends that running tech…
My first, quick impression of the Polar Vantage M and Polar Vantage V was hugely positive. There, I said it. I met up with some Polar people and had a chat around the basic competencies of the Vantage which, sort of, strayed into aspects of some of the formal release Polar presentations. It’s always nice…
Polar have today released the Polar Vantage V and Polar Vantage M, which are ‘pro’ running and tri watches. There’s LOTS of new stuff to discuss about the Vantage models. This post looks specifically just at PRECISION PRIME. Precision Prime is Polar’s name for their optical HR sensing offering. Setting The Benchmark High Polar claim…
At 11 O’clock UK time today I will be releasing LOTS of Polar Vantage insights that go beyond the marketing materials coming from Polar and elsewhere and based on hands-on experience with the first beta units. This time I will be doing that through multiple, detailed posts about specific aspects of the devices. There is…
WatTeam’s 3rd Generation of PowerBeat power meters are now shipping and there’s 10% off the already great prices at PowerMeterCity As little as $259 for a power meter….. WatTeam PowerBeat G3 – Gen 3 – Review or Hands On to follow Evolution not revolution. Welcomed improvements to what was a previously…
Qualcomm today announce the Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform. Source: qualcomm.com Who? What? Why do I care? You’ve probably never heard of Qualcomm or at least never knew what they did. They do a lot of things, one of which is providing the processing power behind the current crop of WearOS watches – both WearOS sports…
I tend to use routes infrequently. When I create a new one it is easier for me to use Google Maps. But then I always forget how to EASILY get it on to my Wahoo Elemnt. I use ridewithgps which is very nicely featured although for simple tasks like this it is not intuitive…at least…
