Whilst the Garmin Forerunner 910XT was the first proper triathlon watch, it was soon replaced by the originally named Garmin Forerunner 920XT. I think it’s fair to say that we see relatively large numbers of the 920XT sill adorning various triathlete’s wrists, much less so with the 910XT. Then Garmin went and made a new…
Wednesday night was the club swim night. This post summarises some unscientific glances at everyone’s wrists over the last few weeks on those Wednesdays and the post presents an aggregate view of ‘sports watches worn’. Lane 6 is the faster lane with lanes 5/6 having some national-standard swimmers/triathletes. Swimmers in Lane 1 would be in…
Garmin 935, Fenix 5, Forerunner 920XT Comparison For those of you looking to upgrade here is a Garmin 935, Fenix 5, Forerunner 920XT Comparison. So tri-fans. It’s here. You probably have either a Fenix 3, a 735XT or a 920XT and you want to know if it’s worth the upgrade to a shiny new Forerunner…
Garmin’s Forerunner 935 has just been announced and the details of what we mostly knew have largely been confirmed. Is it what the 920XT should always have morphed into? or something less impressive? ESSENTIAL READING: 935 Features and 935 Comparisons to F5/920XT. MASTER STROKE My biggest complaint with new Garmin products is that they tend not…
After yesterday’s relative walk-in-the-park, today was a chance for a run-in-the-park. I took the M600 out for a demanding threshold run of about 90 minutes with 10 minutes warmup. You can see the HR performance against a STRYD HRM pod (Red) on a Garmin HRM4 strap (recorded by a 920XT). Bizarrely the optical M600 (Blue) would be considered to have…
This is my 1500m weekend swim course. I do it a LOT. The SPARTAN is in RED and clearly the track is not as good as that of the 920XT. The SPARTAN seems to have me swimming backwards in places which is clearly wrong. I may be bad but I’m not THAT bad. The 920XT’s…
After a Half-Iron distance race at the weekend, today was still a recovery day. 10k on a bike seemed sensible enough as did the thought of combining that into a GPS test. The cunning plan was to circle the Roundabout-of-GPS-Doom. Perhaps a faster-moving me might give rise to different GPS results than previous running-based tests?…
Should I ? Or shouldn’t I? Do I go Garmin for the Hever HIM this weekend? I know the Garmin Forerunner 920XT will be fine as will the Garmin HRM-TRI. I have some new apps to try out on the Garmin Edge 820 from XERT that are super cool. The Garmin footpod is a necessity…
The main purpose of this test was to put my mind to rest about what seems to be great hardware in the Suunto SPARTAN ULTRA using last week’s firmware v1.1.30. Hopefully my GPS test might, or might not, also allay the fears of some AMBIT 3 users contemplating a Suunto upgrade for Christmas. Backstory: I’ve probably used…
I was bored so I loaded up a 120km GPX trail map. In the end I was out for about 10 hours and 145km of trail, hill and the occasional road. I did some pretty long detours…some of which were my fault. I suspected the battery wouldn’t last so I also had some reserves with my 920XT (course…
My Amazon price alert beeped on the 920XT today. with a massive 10% off … wow that’s a lot right. Let’s go and snap up the items that Amazon are trying to shift as stocks of the 735XT come in. Right? Maybe? Well. No!! Look at the above graph. Prices have previously been a further…
Is the 920XT the end of the line for 9xx devices? Will the next Garmin tri-watch be a 740XT? The release of the pretty, but plasticy run-cum-tri-watch, the Garmin 735XT, is great. As a populist tri watch many may well be happy with its sound feature set. As we’ve seen, though, the “pro gadget wearers” will…
Along with the Polar V800 (here vs. 920) and Suunto AMBIT3 Sport, the Garmin 920XT has been a weapon of choice for many triathletes from 2014 through to late 2016. Many more people bought the near identically-featured Garmin Fenix 3 probably, I would contend, for reasons other than pure triathlon competition – such as using it for…
The 920XT now has swim workouts. They’re pretty good and can be added through Garmin Connect. You can even include sets with paddles/snorkel and paddles..Nice! Some of you will like alerts – 50m to go, or something a little cleverer. I’m pretty happy with it as it is and just use it as a glorified…
This image was from last night’s ‘fun’ run. What you are looking at is power, HR and muscle oxygen (SmO2) – from running. Not the most promising of graphs admittedly! Purpose: I’m tapering, the taper requires a few short HM paced intervals. Also I am testing out weird combinations of kit. Just because they were there to…
My cynicism about cash-grabbing Garmin has waned somewhat of late. With the fairly recent HRM4-TRI/HRM4-SWIM caching of swim data I was very pleasantly surprised. And now we have the advanced running metrics in beta. I downloaded the v6.13 beta firmware today which ALSO updated my HRM4-TRI and HRM-RUN (HRM3-RUN ???). So now I have a new screen…
EDIT: Info here is superceded and different for the STRYD footpod. Info in the review. Linked to here: STRYD REVIEW | Running Power Meter, Accurate | Footpod | There is some degree of compatibility between the STRYD running power meter pod and almost all Bluetooth SMART and ANT+ devices. Precise compatibility is complicated because…
http://otilloswimrun.se/_img/billboardStart_xl.jpg This has been a bug bear of mine for several years and finally I have proper excuse to support my argument. ÖTILLÖ is an intriguing super Aquathlon. Basically lots of mad Swedes swimming from island to island and running around a lot. Soemthing like 10k of swimming and 65k or running. Ouch! If it…
The 920XT will, this month (Dec 2015), be firmware-updated to support the new running dynamics that were recently introduced for the 630 and even more recently promised for the Fenix3. I’m assuming they will work with any old HRM-RUN and not just the special new HRM4-RUN. We’ll see. This will also require a firmware upgrade…
Well I’ve already got a 920XT. It’s complicated; it’s a love hate thing. But what if I had all my gear stolen tomorrow? I was wondering what triathlon watch I would buy for Xmas 2015. I’d be interested to hear your choices. Option 1: Multi-watch My first option now would probably be to go for multi-watch…
