This is part of my main Garmin Forerunner 945 Review and specifically looks at many aspects of GPS accuracy or, more correctly, GNSS accuracy. I’m looking at FITNESS FOR PURPOSE but what purpose do you want a GPS track for? If it’s a pretty post-run or post-ride/run track of where you’ve been that’s ‘about right’…
The WHOOP Strap has been updated to v3.0. It looks similar but there are new straps and new changes to the WHOOP platform too. A Look-Back WHOOP was a proprietary wrist-based HR (resting HRV) sensor linking to only their iOS/Android app and online platform. It is sold as a conveniently worn strap that’s suited for…
The Polar Vantage V TITAN is now in stock at Power Meter City. The usual 10% discount apples with the code THE5KRUNNER10 The Vantage TITAN has a 7g lighter overall weight and the case is made of premium TITANIUM with the new strap being a fabric-like feel but made of silicone. For more details please…
Garmin Forerunner 945 – Firstbeat Insights You get all of this clever stuff from Firstbeat thrown in. And it is clever. I’ll talk about the more interesting features further below in more detail. Â Be mindful that optical HR from the wrist might cause issues with the accuracy of the data that Firstbeat has to…
Suunto have just announced their new Suunto 5 model and I’ve only had a few days to get to grips with, so a full Suunto 5 Review will follow in June. In the meantime, let’s have a look at what’s new. A quick heads-up, some of these images are of dummy units for the sales…
When Suunto released the Suunto 9 model last year they made a big play, at the time, of the watch’s suitability to extreme environments and they, Suunto, stated that the Suunto 9 met these tests/criteria Temperature cycling Thermal shock Shock test ISO1413 Static pressure 100m ISO22810 Pressure cycling 66m Tumble test (100 drops) Seawater test…
Garmin Forerunner 945 – What’s Missing? Garmin has just released their Forerunner 945 tri watch and the probably-internally-identical MARQ ATHLETE should be able to be bought around about now too. The feature-improvements over the 935 are many and varied but most fall under the ‘additional smarts’ and ‘peripheral niceties’ categories…which is not to knock them.…
Some awesome deals at REI with 30% off selected Garmin and Polar 30% Garmin deals here includes Fenix 5 and 5 Plus 30% Suunto deals here 9 Baro, Spartan, etc Other 30% Anniversary deals here
Long Term Favero ASSIOMA Review (Duo model) – yeah, it’s pretty good really. Very, very few issues and none worth moaning about.
When you use Garmin Connect/Express on your computer to install a data field or app from the online CIQ store then you will probably find the experience to have been OK but certainly not a WOW moment. Plus when you are in a car in the middle of a field and you want to add,…
Wiggle’s mid-season sale has just started. With some of the VERY best deals in the UK and Germany. Here are some of the headlines and there are many more brands on sale as well Up to 30% off Suunto Up to 30% off Polar Up to 40% off Marin Up to 25% off DHB (see…
Interesting news from Humon whose Hex Muscle Oxygen sensor now supports Watch OS5 from Apple Some of you will perhaps also remember that STRYD is now supported on Watch OS. In one sense this is not that interesting as I’m guessing it will initially only result in a relatively small number of sales. However,…
Garmin coach was introduced almost a year ago relatively quietly. Even at its launch it offered tantalisingly ‘adaptive’ training plans. Potentially it would re-schedule workouts during your ever-changing week at work and maybe even adapt an individual workout on-the-fly should your run start off either too fast or too slow. I had a look at…
In this Coros VERTIX Review, we revisit the Coros sports and adventure platform and delve into the details of the limited number of new features that are unique to the new Vertix ‘Adventure Watch‘. Coros has released a couple of good sports watches already but this time they are going up against the Fenix 5X…
Mobvoi Ticwatch S2 Review – A nice enough ‘value’ WearOS smartwatch with lots of apps, smarts and ruggedness for sports
I’ve been thinking for a few weeks (dangerous, I know) that Firstbeat should come up with some sort of advanced, online, physiological, analytics platform, a bit like the Firstbeat ATHLETE software of old but on the net and still geared at the consumer athlete. My subsequent thought-train petered out when it came to figuring out…
There are two sports watch reviews to come this week (hopefully). I’m pretty sure that one watch is the same as a review that DCR will release at the same time. And I’m pretty sure that the other one won’t be covered by him – not a Garmin and not an announcement ie already released,…
For more ELEMNT ROAM details or to buy directly from Wahoo have a look (here) to buy from REI click (here). Remember Wahoo products are actually easy to use…what price for that? Wahoo ELEMNT ROAM Announced
The new Garmin Edge 530 is a sensibly-priced, feature-packed GPS bike computer by Garmin – you knew that. HEADS UP: Garmin Edge 530 Review – In Detail Warts and all Generally, I like it a lot so far and I would still stick by some of my earlier comments that it is the benchmark, performance…
Yay ! Lots of people are going to be happy that Polar will be including manual footpod calibration in the V4 release for October 2019. It’s taken a while, with pressure and polite requests from many sources. October is still a little bit too far away for my liking as I had hoped to use…
