I’ve used the Wahoo TICKR-FIT optical HRM STRAP a few times but mostly for aerobic runs and really had nothing of any interest to report in terms of accuracy. All looks good so far.
But today I decided to invent a test as I needed a more challenging run in any case. And this seemed as good as anything.
- Warmup
- 20′ comfortably hard
- Then immediately stop
- 4′ a bit harder
- Then immediately stop
- 1′ max
- then jog recovery
- 1′ max (this still seemed to deliver a HR that was a fair way short of my HRmax. Perhaps a few more repeated minute efforts are needed)
- Then immediately stop
- Finish
Optical HR seems to broadly work for longer slower aerobic runs from most brands these days. It’s the harder running intervals and non-running sports where the problems start.
As you can see the Wahoo TICKR-FIT performed, admirably well, as expected. So I still have nothing of any interest to report. All looks good so far.
I also wore a Polar OH1 (reviewed here) but I must have forgot to start the caching. So no data. Oh well.
MYSTERY WATCH
The TICKR-X was paired to a mystery sports watch via Bluetooth (not the 935 as shown above) – as yet totally unannounced or leaked anywhere. More exciting news to follow on that in a couple of weeks – it’s only a little bit interesting, so stay tuned but don’t get overly excited.
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