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
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…
It’s tricky to say whether STRYD or Garmin Running Power (CIQ app) are the leading running power meter solution at the moment. Sure, the free Garmin Running Power app has more single downloads but how many people then really go on to use it in training? Sure, STRYD has more total downloads of all its…
OK. OK. I know. I t’s taken me a long time to get around to the Humon Hex. This is NOT a review of the Humon Hex – just a quick look for now. Background I had a brief love affair with the Moxy and BSX Insight. Well, at least the thought of using…
The new Oura Ring (v2 for 2018) and the Motiv Ring stand out as the two most sensible places to start your research into an activity tracker in a ring format. Rationale If you are looking for an athletic sports tracker then a ring is NOT the option you want in 2018/19. But the market…
I’m feeling a little smug. For once I did a little bit better on my A race than I had hoped for, both in terms of time and position. It was a ‘lesser event’ with limited competition but a medal is a medal and it’s not my fault the really good guys didn’t turn up…
There ‘might’ be some announcements this month. Or not, who knows 😉 For a change, this month I will try to auto-schedule new content and info like that on my Instagram feed. The Instagram feed always contains different content to this blog – usually an existing but cropped image and some original text (with the…
I’ve been quiet here recently. Partly because of other work and partly because of a family trip to the Alps.My proper France bike trip is in a few weeks. So the Alps Trip was to test out my bike setup, eat some cheese and start tapering for my A race. As we all know tapering…
I reviewed the Jabra Elite Active 65t and have the similar non-Active version. I like the original colours but now Amazon have an exclusive with Jabra with new colours as shown above as well as Amazon Music free for 3 months. Copper Black edition exclusive to Amazon Elite 65t generally available in Copper Black and…
I’ve recently received a new, modified version of RunScribe Plus pods. They look identical to the originally released V3 pods and indeed still show up as a V3 pod on the RunScribe app. However the main hardware ‘fix’ is with the signal strength. Garmin were VERY naughty when they released the Fenix 5 and 5S…
