Every year we select the Best of CIQ across a range of categories. There are some great nominees for this year’s awards and those of you who looked closely at last year’s winners might, like me, still have the award-winning Crystal Watch Face adorning your Garmin. Before we dive into this year nominees, take a…
I’ve just found out that FINALSURGE won the best app award. Quote from the winning team “😀” The developer says, “FinalSurge.com is the online training log for athletes, coaches, teams and clubs. Use the Final Surge Connect IQ app in conjunction with the Final Surge Workout Builder to create Run, Bike and Swim workouts to…
These are the best CIQ apps, widgets and watch faces from 2018. They generally have the best ratings and best reviews on the CIQ store. Winners will be announced today at the CIQ Developer’s Summit by Garmin. My personal favourites are: FinalSurge and the Xert Player. This post was first shown here in Jan 2019…
These are the best CIQ apps, widgets and watch faces from 2018. They generally have the best ratings and best reviews on the CIQ store. Winners will be announced in April 2019 at the CIQ Developer’s Summit bu Garmin. My personal favourites are: FinalSurge and the Xert Player. Best New Watch Face This award is…
I recently had an email to check out the new Final Surge online coaching platform and their new CIQ app. I wasn’t that excited. However, it’s been quiet so I persevered. And it was worth persevering as I quickly had a ‘fall off the seat moment‘. It seems that Final Surge (FS) have looked at…
Final Surge (FS) is an online platform for triathletes, runners and cyclists to plan, record and analyze their efforts. It has some cool coach-specific functionality as well as being suitable for individual athletes who want to organise their own training or purchase and follow one of FS’s hosted online plans – for example Mark Allen’s…
One of the CIQ Summit headlines is showcasing of some new CIQ2.4 apps like Yelp, Trailforks, GU and MySwimPro. Broadly speaking, CIQ covers apps and additional functionality for: health and fitness wearables, cycling computers and also hand-held devices.There have been about 54million CIQ downloads which means that DWMAP accounts for about 1% of the total; bringing…
The first Runscribe PLUS CIQ Data Field is here. ‘SHOCK’ My understanding is that RunScribe PLUS units are shipping just about ‘now’. So you will have a nice data field to play with in real time on your watch. “Which watch?” I hear you ask. Handily, it’s quite a few of them as shown on…
New improvements from STRYD allow customisable averages for data fields
Alongside the Fenix 5, Garmin have also announced some interesting new CIQ apps. They will also work on other CIQ devices rather than just the Fenix 5. Hold on to your hats folks, there follows a long and super interesting post (or not). The UBER app is for your UBER taxi arrival – expect more…
