Here we have the first leaked images of the Garmin Fenix 6X Pro which look very much like the Fenix5. They could be fake but this now corroborates with other information I have that a slew of Garmin products are queueing up for release to an, as yet, unsuspecting public. Source: Images click to…
The next generation of Garmin Fenix is in production Edit: Fenix 6 will be announced in August 2019 or September 2019 at latest. Edit: Listing removed from Amazon 9th August 2019 The models all sound plausible and are variants on Fēnix® 6, Vívoactive 4, Vivomove 3, MARQ Commander & Instinct Tactical Garmin Fēnix® 6 series:…
Zwift today adds Titans Grove which draws inspiration from the High Sierras, home to the Sequoia National Park. Sitting adjacent to the Fuego Flats in trhe Zwift game, the mammoth-sized boulders and giant sequoias cast a shadow for those arriving fresh from a trip through the desert. The new section of road snakes its…
It’s no secret that I like Xert (pronounced EXERT). In a nutshell, it’s a novel way of looking at what power output you are capable of at any given instant; and that knowledge feeds through into many aspects of training from season planning, to workouts or to segment hunting. It works well in the Garmin…
Suunto opened up their platform a few months ago to their new API and today they announced the addition of several further partners. This sort of thing is not really news in itself normally but it’s interesting as it demonstrates that there is both a significant interest in the Suunto platform by 3rd parties and…
I’ve just been playing with the link between Ayvri and STRAVA. Ayvri is a little like Relive.cc which had it’s linked with STRAVA recently stopped. So; you link your Ayvri account to your STRAVA account and then get a 3D playback of your ride. Kinda like a helicopter view of your ride with the relative…
A recent post by dcrainmaker (here) showed how STRAVA had effectively cut off access to relive.cc for the strava API. I covered it a little as well at the time (here). One suggestion was that STRAVA might have a directly-competing product in the pipeline. For the sake of argument let’s just assume they have. I…
V2.127 – 19 Aug 2019 This post is regularly updated before being periodically replaced, with a refreshed introduction & commentary to give you an indication of which GPS Run, Bike and Triathlon sports devices are available NOW and likely to be superseded SOON or which have been DISCONTINUED. You might want the latest model or…
Just for this week, Wiggle have some good discounts on Suunto, Garmin, Polar and Bryton Watches. Well Bryton bike computers and also some polar accessories too. These are mostly UK only but the garmin and Suuto deals are EU-wide and the Bryton deals are global. Here are the headline deals – click the flag emoji…
I had a ‘special’ piece of swim kit on today (INSTABEAT) but I’ve not yet managed to get the data off it so here is the HR chart sans ‘special kit’ and you will also note that this is my first use of the new beta software on the Forerunner 945 which FINALLY enables oHR…
As promised last year, I’ve started to do some races with the Polar Vantage. This post covers some gadget-based results and anecdotes of recent RACE escapades. I “used” the Vantage V Titan for the River Arun 3.8k swim and also for the Dartmoor Classic 100 mile ride. Clearly, I didn’t look at the watch too…
It looks like Garmin have finally decided to play catch up with the introduction of oHR for swimming with the current beta software for the 945 – Suunto and Polar already support oHR for swimming with the Vantage and spartan/post-spartan models respectively. I’m just about to head off for a race weekend so I’ve…
STRYD Zones The STRYD Zones CIQ Data Field is a nice, new and welcomed addition to the STRYD ecosystem – I guess we can call it that now. The new STRYD Zones CIQ data field also builds on the auto-Critical Power announcement from last week and the new STRYD Pod v4 announcement from the week…
Polar Ignite Review and detailed look at its new features and specs
Coming soon: http://wko5.com/ TrainingPeaks have just, sort of, released a new version of their analytics package …called WKO5. Full details and links below ahead of tomorrow’s marketing drive. Of interest are their SMART SEGMENTS (smart LAPS) where you can analyse YOUR performances on segments/laps of YOUR custom routes over time compared to YOU. Dynamic Functional Reserve…
Bad news for relive.cc as STRAVA has just stopped Relive’s integration with their platform citing that it “violates several of the terms that we ask of API partners“. Reading between the lines it looks like STRVA made an effort to encourage Relive to properly safeguard the personal info of users. Although Relive, below, seems to…
If you understand the title of this post, ie “New STRYD auto-CP calculation” then you will know that it sounds like a pretty cool and useful feature. If you don’t understand the title then you will, no doubt wonder what on earth we are talking about 😉 Nutshell: Critical Power is your “forever power”, for…
Qualcomm is modifying one of its Nokia-based, 64bit chipsets to work with WearOS and this will hit the market ‘fairly soon’. This means that WearOS should see a notable improvement in performance and, most likely, this will be most visible with extended battery life. This is made possible, for example, by power savings gains from using…
I’ve just finished scoring today’s test run with the Polar Ignite and the Suunto 5. The Suunto 5 briefly, just briefly, took the accuracy crown away from the Ambit 3. HEADS UP: Suunto 5 Review I’ll cover the IGNITE first…it’s easier: I like the Polar Ignite as an overall package aimed at being a “fitness…
My partner either called me ‘cheap’ or a ‘cheap date’, I forget which. It’s definitely true, in the comments from a separate thread, KrisV committed to ‘Supporter’ status on this site in a sort-of-exchange for me producing an update on the current GPS of several Polar devices. I aim to please (KrisV and my partner)…
