Today was a good day. Nearly 2.5 hours of running. Some of it in the beautiful Royal Parks and some of it down the A3 past Tescos. It was warm enough and I was carrying enough gadgets and kit to warrant being mugged. Specifically, I was testing the fancy new GPS modes whereby watches periodically…
The results of some recent GPS tests were worthy of a post of their own for once. For those of you with Polar and Suunto devices here are some important and provisional findings. It’s been a busy week for things to test. As well, I had some old data to go through. Busy. Busy. What’s…
The new Polar Vantage M is a fully featured triathlon watch and the cheaper sibling of the Vantage V. Both of the Vantage models have many features in common including full, native support for running power from RunScribe (and STRYD). REVIEW LINK TO : Polar Vantage M Why RunScribe Plus? We all know that…
One way to figure out if you might like the Hammerhead Karoo is to ask yourself “Do I like good looking bike tech with an awesome touchscreen”. The other way would be to consider, “Do you often load a route at the start of your next bike journey?”. If you answered YES to either, then keep reading.
I can’t even blame an alcoholic stupor for inadvertently booking onto a cycling expedition across the Pyrenees. I just simply forgot that I don’t like going up hills that much and got starry-eyed and blinded by the thought of being the first person to cycle from the Atlantic to the Med across the Pyrenees. OK.…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
How accurate is your GPS? I went for a run last night and, at times, the track I looked at later was over 20m off. When I drive in London the car Satnav often has no idea where I am. If you have experienced the same as me then you might be surprised to know…
I’m having a quiet few weeks (partly) away from the gadgets and away from training to a degree brought on by ‘other’ work, completing tax returns and tapering for my B race. I’ll tell you about the race next week if it goes well in 30c degree heat 😉 The last time I did this…
The new Suunto 9 BARO (non BARO version also available) showcases Suunto’s new FusedTrack feature. Here’s how it works and it only works for running: GPS positions are sampled infrequently (Endurance Mode 60 secs & Ultra Mode 120 secs). Between those points the Suunto 9’s motion sensor provides inputs to a directional algorithm to joint…
