A recent theme of things I wrote about was ‘My Ironman Journey’. Perhaps not the most novel of topics; but I enjoyed writing it and I hope I piqued someone’s interest along the way. The next theme up is: WAHOO – The Great Garmin Migration I’ll probably change the title to something more controversial or…
This is an interesting one that falls under the ‘certainly can’t hurt’ category AND it may well help. You’ll need a PM+Cadence Sensor and a CIQ-enabled Garmin. Download the BIOSHIFT from the CIQ store and you’ll get a data field something like the image on the right. Replace your normal cadence field with the Bioshift one…
I’ve been playing a bit with the Polar V800 over the last few weeks. I didn’t have to delve too deeply into the product to discover Polar’s ‘advanced running dynamics’. I didn’t have to delve deeply because they’ve been standard features for a while. Polar don’t refer to them as ‘advanced’, probably because many watch vendors…
Garmin’s GSC-10 has been their mainstay, magnet-based speed+cadence sensor for several years. Relatively recently, newer versions were introduced that do not require magnets. Namely a speed-only sensor and a cadence-only sensor. They are ANT+ only, are mostly self-calibrating and do what their name suggests. Positives: They are accurate and reliable. Because these new ones are held by a…
You can improve quickly with focussed efforts on a turbo trainer. Soon enough, however, improvement will be hard to come by. It’s the same with running, swimming and many other sports too of course. To ‘get over’ that plateau needs you to do something different. One way forwards is to improve technique which, of course,…
I bought a music metronome thing a few years back. Used it a few times for RUNNING and discarded it. It was one of those little gadgets that beeps at a certain number of times per minute. Usually used by musicians. I found it slowed me down. But. Since then I’ve looked very closely at…
I bought a music metronome thing a few years back. Used it a few times for RUNNING and discarded it. It was one of those little gadgets that beeps at a certain number of times per minute. Usually used by musicians. I found it slowed me down. But. Since then I’ve looked very closely at…
