With stealth-like aerodynamic beauty, Wattbike today announced their new indoor trainer. I think it will be a winner It’s heavy. That might seem like a negative factor but if you live in London you will most likely be waiting every weekend for your friendly, neighbourhood bike thief to break into your pain shed and…
This is the first and probably last of my monthly roundups…August 2017, here we go: I could tell you where I went on holiday but suspect that you might not be too interested. It was a bit prettier than the nuclear power station I sort-of went to last year (link to: the5krunner.com). Hint: I almost…
Here are some of the first images of Garmin’s CHARGE battery pack for their new Edge 1030 cycling computer. It’s not quite what I expected with the battery going under the new mount. That’s a great idea of course as it means it is very easily replaceable. I had imagined it going between the 1030…
I finally updated my Garmin Connect Mobile iOS app today and was pleasantly surprised to get the new workout creation facility. Here are a few screenshots with some comments afterwards It’s been in beta and known about for some time The same functionality is on android too. Workouts sync across all net/ios/android devices…and hence to…
I’m the first to moan when a sports watch vendor introduces a new data metric and suddenly the watch becomes “Version 3” rather than a miniscule/incremental improvement on “version 2”. I suppose “Version 3” sounds better than “Version 2.01” for the marketeers. Back to the Fenix 5; here (link to: the5krunner.com) we guess there will…
I’d previously had occasional issues with updating firmware with some of the Lezyne 2017 (Year 10) devices but this time it was good, first time. There are some cosmetic AND functional improvements, not all of which apply to all 2017 devices. Here they are: What’s new: More Data Fields – up to 8 data…
Polar have delivered on the promise to implement continuous heart rate (optical) in today’s firmware of v1.1.4. Alongside this the FLOW app gives you the all day view of that data. There are also minor improvements to show you sleep continuity and the new ability to ‘rate’ your sleep. This is nice, non-sporty information to…
