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…
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 935. Really you’re going to buy one anyway, you’re just trying to justify it đ Actually, maybe not. It’s a bit more complex as…
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…