Suunto have announced new variants on the Suunto 9, which is the replacement for the Spartan Ultra. There are actually 2 distinct Suunto 9 models as well as various colour/case options so now is as good a time as any to clarify the different hardware competencies. There’s also new firmware 2.4.14 as of 2Oct2018, which…
Today was a skiving off the real-job day. To make use of my day off I had planned a rather pleasant surprise for myself to go and see the new Wahoo bike stuff up in London. Specifically I was interested in seeing: the Kickr CLIMB, the Headwind smart fan; and the Kickr 2018 itself. If…
There is a great early-season cashback deal directly from Wahoo on the ELEMNT* with £50 cashback in the UK and $80 cashback in the USA. Terms and Conditions apply: Purchases between 15th May to 15th June 2018 and the cashback is provided by Wahoo Fitness. Research with the quick Wahoo Elemnt Review, links to: the5krunner.com…
The new Suunto 3 FITNESS is an intriguing addition to Suunto range of products and takes the learnings from the SPARTAN range to new markets. On first inspection, those of you who know about all-things-Suunto, might think we have another SPARTAN TRAINER in our midst. It certainly LOOKS like the SPARTAN TRAINER. But there are…
Suunto today announced the Suunto 3 Fitness, which is a variant on the Suunto SPARTAN Sport WHR (ish). Historically Suunto have created many product variants from a ‘master’ format. No doubt they will continue to do that. I’ve not yet dug deeply enough to discover all the nuances of the Suunto 3 Fitness as January…
In this Wahoo Elemnt Review I’ll pull together all my hands-on cycling time with the Elemnt over the last 4 months and try to be as succinct as possible in summarising what was a highly pleasant experience. Edit: Updated September 2018…LOTS & LOTS of usage Background Wahoo Fitness started selling the Wahoo Elemnt in Q1.2016…
WAHOO KICKR Review In this WAHOO KICKR Review we consider whether the 2017 iteration is WAHOO’s best yet. Maybe it is? espeically when combined with WAHOO’s recent announcements to support: structured/scheduled workouts; the new Bolt; and the new KICKR-CLIMB. Updated with KICKR 2018 info The KICKR smart trainer makes a compelling case for anyone considering upgrading…
It looks like the Lenovo-owned MOTO brand will not be continuing with smartwatches, according to The Verge, although the existing MOTO 360 (2015) may well be updated to AW2.0 in Q1.2017. Guess which one of these will still be being sold in 2018. It also looks like Fitbit will be buying Pebble. Fitbit haven’t got…
We can already see that sports technology is exploding in many directions: the market is global and is growing globally; technology is broadening its capabilities & competencies; online services and apps are getting cleverer; corporate health consciousness is growing; basic activity trackers’ usefulness is being questioned; smartphone apps offer ever-richer experiences; wearability/fashion is important; and the big boys…
You can see from the photos that this is a fitness band or activity tracker of some sort. You probably already know that there is quite a lot of choice in that area. Yet here we have another one, this time from TomTom with their first foray into this particular format of device. What is…
I make no secret of my love of wrist based heart rate monitoring. I’ve just posted a quick mini review of the TomTom Cardio watch for runners. It’s a very straightforward but very good running watch. Accurate with all the bits you need built in. At just over <£200 here > it is not cheap…
And what should I do today? If you are following a plan the best advice is to stick to it. Sometimes you might be a little more or less able to do what the plan says (or what you thought you were going to do if you have no plan) But how do you KNOW what…
And what should I do today? If you are following a plan the best advice is to stick to it. Sometimes you might be a little more or less able to do what the plan says (or what you thought you were going to do if you have no plan) But how do you KNOW what…
You’ve probably been trawling the net or this site for 5k plans. There’s quite a few on this site; some good, some less so. Probably any plan and a certain amount of hard work will get you below 20 minutes but some will do it faster than others because they are better… The best plan…
We all want to get that PB down as low as we can. I guess there comes a point though where nature takes over and that PB will never be possible. But then you can just look at your age graded score instead! So there’s always room for improvement by some means. Even some 60…
Yes. I would definately enter I represented GB in Age Group Duathlon and genuinely was worried that I may well have come last. As it turned out I wasn’t. There’s always someone somewhere that will be slower than you. You just have to hope they are in the same race!! But really who cares? Think…
How to get a 5k PB.
That’s probably the simplest recipe for a healthy and long life which very many people should follow. All you can do to improve the recipe would be to get good genes 🙂 I have created a challenge, its for your diet, muscular endurance and cardiovascular system, I know personally it is hard to keep this…
Briefly the answer is probably “not really”. During exercise they reduce muscle vibration. IE it stops you wasting energy. So my take on that would be that it must make you a little faster. Vibration causes damage and so your endurance will be improved. There is also the psychological effect of looking a bit silly…
