My initial view of SHFT was that it looked to have well-made hardware pods with a fairly comprehensive, ‘proper’ run coaching app. Proper in the sense that it gives ‘instant’, personalised, actionable, corrective, audible feedback on your running form. Some of its competitors promise the same, yet do not convincingly deliver. SHFT also looks to…
In desperation I think I even mocked up a HRM-BIKE to complete the family. The caching swim watches now pretty much work flawlessly. You only have to watch out for losing the ANT+ connection before you start your race if you are splashing around at the start (tip: move you watch close to the strap…
Some much better news today for the A360. This time running tests. OK they were fairly short runs but they followed a bit of bike work beforehand each time and were suitably sweaty and outdoors. Fairly cold, not windy and nice and flat. They were all into Z4 territory. This was a MUCH better than…
I updated the A360 today with the new firmware v1.128. Even though HR improvements are not listed as part of the firmware release, I hoped for the best. I hoped to shed some light on a few tests I’ve been doing over the last couple of weeks. This test was on a turbo trainer. Cooled…
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…
OK. Fill in the sequence: SWIM-XXXX-RUN-TRI Thinking caps on. Now try this one. HRM-SWIM, HRM-XXXX, HRM-RUN, HRM-TRI Using my considerable powers of deduction there just might be a HRM-BIKE in the offing 🙂 Ta da !! So the HRM-SWIM brought underwater caching of heart rate (nice), a bit of stickiness to the torso and a bit of…
I still haven’t found the perfect heart rate monitor, for me, for everything I do. For anyone that’s interested here are my favourites by sport/activity Running (All): 1st Garmin HRM-RUN 2nd Wahoo TICKR-X Why? I like the Garmin’s strap. It looks nice (!) and I sometimes use the Running Dynamics Bike (All): 1st 4iiii Viiiiva…
The Garmin HRM-TRI is a waterproof, ANT+, chest strap specifically designed for recording HR for the top-end Garmin watches (920XT, Epix and Fenix3). Positives: It’s comfortable and looks fine. It fills the gaps in your tri-data recording of your heart rate for both open water and pool sessions as well as for during races where it works…
Here is an image of the new Garmin HR strap 2014/2015. You can see a very different style. The PODS look the same (they appear to be). The top one is the ‘original’ / ‘Classic’HR hard strap (Part Number: 010-10997-00 aka HRM1) and the one below it the ‘premium soft strap’ (HRM3). The third is the…
