Garmin have issued a detailed service advisory here (link to:garmin.com). If you do not feel comfortable doing it yourself then you can send them off to be serviced by Garmin. You should also receive a CODE for a free set of UPGRADED battery door covers. If that isn’t enough there is also a firmware v3.50…
The IQ2 Power Meter Kickstarter campaign had to hit is £87,464 goal by 24 May 2018 and, at the time of writing, has 3,216 backers amounting to a whopping £722,168. The goal for shipping is 1st October 2018. What’s the big deal? There are lots of ‘ifs’ around this one but if a reasonably accurate…
Power Meter Pedals are the best choice for most bike riders. Is Garmin? Favero? PowerTap? Which is best? Let’s see…
What’s going to be new on the Power Meter front in 2018? We’ve had a lot of new PM products to potentially buy over the last couple of years. Sometimes there is quite a delay between announcement and availability. So I approach this year thinking “It’s going to be a quiet one“. That could turn…
STRYD have just announced an important firmware upgrade for those of you who have WALK/HIKE sections of trail runs. Even in competitive trail events there are sections where walking may be more efficient than running, such as on very steep gradients. Previously STRYD did not produce power on walk sections. There is now a firmware…
For those of you looking to improve the stability of the watts in your Garmin Running Power numbers then the new STRYD Light (STRYD Live) could be a sensible way forwards for a half the cost of the full STRYD solution. This particular approach might be useful if you have already built up some history…
Garmin’s Running Power app today just crossed over the 8000 downloads. That’s a lot of people running with power. Downloads have more than doubled from 3445 on 18th December. But that’s still behind STRYD (>10,000) despite Christmas and despite Garmin Running Power being free. I’m not so sure of the quality of the power data…
Trainesense have been on the radar for almost a year now and I have briefly mentioned them a few times, including here. It looks much closer to market now. Exciting! So we are looking at a tool which can measure the 3D force vectors from a hand paddle. OK it excludes total drag and propulsion…
Garmin’s recent Running Power app/data field threw a bit of a curve ball…it included WIND in the calculation. STRYD and RunScribe don’t do that. Well, at least not yet. STRYD apparently have had a plan to include it for a while. Let’s put to one side that Garmin are using a dated, offline weather forecast…
I started leafing through coach Jim Vance’s book “Run with Power” a couple of months ago and never quite found the time to settle down to read it all through properly. I seem to spend WAY more time writing than reading and finding a couple of free hours is always tricky with ‘the day job’.…
It might seem superficially obvious to some people that “the most accurate power meter” might be the best power meter. Or maybe the most repeatably accurate powermeter is the best? But then maybe the most repeatably accurate powermeter involves: a huge sum of money; an inconvenient placement on your bike; and a usage case totally…
30% off Stages Shimano Ultegra 6800. Yep THIRTY percent 30%.
Garmin Running Power to be added to existing Garmin High-End hardware from November 2017 onwards via a free CIQ app. Also requires HRM-TRI, or similar
OK smarty-pants, how well do you know your power meters? 1. Power Meter 101 2. Power Meter Know-It-All
Any hilariously named product has to be from either 4iiii or WAHOO. This time it’s the turn of 4iiii with an announcement today for a dual-sided, dual-band, crank-based power meter with Q1.2018 availability firmed up/announced in January 4iiii always seem to add an innovative twist or two and this announcement is no exception Features: Power accuracy +/-…
In this detailed Favero Assioma Review we look in great detail at Favero’s successor to the popular bePRO power meter pedals. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better…it did. Assioma Review – Favero’s Duo (Uno) Models The ASSIOMA is a candidate for the Best Power Meter. Favero ASSIOMA Review Favero surprised…
/ davetrendler Q: Do you have high goals? Q: Are you trying to qualify for an event or place high at a certain race? Perhaps you simply want to run a faster time than you’ve run before. The higher you set your goals and the better you become, the more commitment you’ll need to reach…
Watteam Powerbeat Review This Watteam Powerbeat Review takes a close look at an accurate, budget, crank-based powermeter system with lots of options.WatTeam recently released their 2nd generation of power meter. It’s dual-sided and dual-band (ANT+ & BTLE). That makes it generally appealing to a wider market. However at $499 it also comes with an attractively…
Here’s a little bit of athletic psycho-analysis for you from STRYD; well physiological analysis, perhaps. One of the problems many of us have is that we have lots of fitness data. Lots of hours and minutes and cadences and power and paces and speeds. Some of that data might be organised in laps or zones; further…
Many of us predicted last year that 2017 would be a good year for STRYD as Running With Power gains more mass acceptance. That seems to be coming true.
