STRAVA introduced RELATIVE EFFORT almost a year ago (April 2018) as a replacement to their Suffer Score. It’s been expanded to provide validity across many sports and to better accommodate shorter, harder efforts. There is new functionality related to RELATIVE EFFORT available at STRAVA online, on your STRAVA app and on some cycling devices –…
I always find that races are somewhat of an inconvenience to my training. My 2019 racing, so far, has turned out to be a comedy of kit & gadgetry errors. Which is a shame as the training had been going very well prior to the races. 5K, parkrun Well, I have been somewhat embarrassingly avoiding…
In certain circumstances, it seems that you can add your country’s flag to your public STRAVA name by using emojis. Of course, you can add the flag of your favourite supra-national organisation too if you like (Eu), the flag of your favourite cause or even an emoji of a snail or racing car for those…
Since my Humon Hex Review from just over 3 months ago I’ve kept on using the Hex 2-3 times a week (out of over 10 sessions/week). I had hoped to have more epiphanies but that extra, post-review usage has mostly just firmed up my thoughts on what I knew I was going to do with…
STRAVA has certainly changed the cycling landscape allowing us to be a little bit more social and, sometimes, rise to the challenge of defending historic performances against attacks from young whippersnappers from out-of-the-area trying to steal all our QOMs/KOMs. It’s even helped Northern Hemisphere cyclists to keep cracking on with FTP-boosting efforts through the balmy…
I’ve done my GPS ‘test’ on the Apple Watch 4 (44mm Nike Edition). The Apple Watch 4 (AW4) uses GLONASS as well as GPS but let’s call it GPS as no-one knows what GNSS means, except you clever lot reading this 😉 . The even cleverer ones amongst you will point out that the GNSS…
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…
