New firmware updates for all the latest Suunto watches are announced today. There is a staged rollout but most of you should be able to get them now. There is nothing that particularly stands out other than Galileo support being added for the Suunto 9. We’ve know for a long time that the Sony GPS…
Polar Vantage V Titan, high-end Polar triathlon and running GPS watch. First swims and runs with a full review in the Vantage Bible.
Wiggle’s WHEEL sale has just started and some proper brands like ZIPP, MAVIC, SHIMANO and EASTON are included, where are discounts typically of 20-30% but sometimes going up to 50% for clearance lines with limited stock. Many wheels and all kinds of tri kit are on sale ranging from bike frames to swimskins and…
Wiggle’s bike sale, where there were savings of up to £500, is coming to an end (link below) and we are now entering Wiggle’s *NEW* TRIATHLON sale, where discounts are typically 20-30% but sometimes going up to 70% for clearance lines with limited stock. There are also some 50% run clearance deals. All kinds of…
The unusually named Sporty Go! app from qooapps is now ready to go for any STRYD users out there who are keen to use a WearOS watch as their sporting weapon of choice. Also announced today is the linking of Sporty Go! with Final Surge to upload your workouts. I have tried to find the…
Apple Watch The Apple Watch is to become more independent from the iPhone, starting off with its own separate app store. This will start as iOS 12 moves to iOS 13 for the iPhone and as Watch OS 5 moves to Watch OS 6. The Apple Watch 5 (five) was NOT announced…that will likely be…
Wiggle have a great BIKE sale on for the next week or so where you can grab up to £500 off a new 2019 bike There are over 200 models on sale and brands include: Felt, Cinelli, Orro, de Rosa, Wilier, Ridley, Niner which includes gravel bikes, hardtail MTB bikes and road bikes I…
I hope we shall hear more from Polar and Final Surge as the year progresses but, for today, Polar and Final Surge have announced a simple link-up where your completed Polar Trainings are piped through to the Final Surge coaching and analysis platform Existing Polar users can set up their account to link to their…
V2.107 – 14 Jun 2019 This post is regularly updated before being periodically replaced, with a refreshed introduction & commentary. The intent is to give you an idea of which GPS Triathlon, Bike and Run sports devices are available NOW and likely to be superseded SOON or which have been DISCONTINUED. As well as reviewing…
▷ Biblical in its depth and coverage this Garmin Edge 530 Review takes a detailed look…
STRYD is just about to announce the support for STRUCTURED RUN workouts FROM TRAINING PEAKS. You should also be able to import any old structured workouts into that format in Training Peaks or create new running power workouts from scratch. If you set the workouts up properly then you will benefit from these key workout…
▷ Biblical in its depth and coverage this Garmin Forerunner 945 Review takes a detailed look…
This is part of my main Garmin Forerunner 945 Review and specifically looks at many aspects of GPS accuracy or, more correctly, GNSS accuracy. I’m looking at FITNESS FOR PURPOSE but what purpose do you want a GPS track for? If it’s a pretty post-run or post-ride/run track of where you’ve been that’s ‘about right’…
The WHOOP Strap has been updated to v3.0. It looks similar but there are new straps and new changes to the WHOOP platform too. A Look-Back WHOOP was a proprietary wrist-based HR (resting HRV) sensor linking to only their iOS/Android app and online platform. It is sold as a conveniently worn strap that’s suited for…
Garmin Forerunner 945 – Firstbeat Insights You get all of this clever stuff from Firstbeat thrown in. And it is clever. I’ll talk about the more interesting features further below in more detail. Be mindful that optical HR from the wrist might cause issues with the accuracy of the data that Firstbeat has to…
Suunto have just announced their new Suunto 5 model and I’ve only had a few days to get to grips with, so a full Suunto 5 Review will follow in June. In the meantime, let’s have a look at what’s new. A quick heads-up, some of these images are of dummy units for the sales…
When Suunto released the Suunto 9 model last year they made a big play, at the time, of the watch’s suitability to extreme environments and they, Suunto, stated that the Suunto 9 met these tests/criteria Temperature cycling Thermal shock Shock test ISO1413 Static pressure 100m ISO22810 Pressure cycling 66m Tumble test (100 drops) Seawater test…
Garmin Forerunner 945 – What’s Missing? Garmin has just released their Forerunner 945 tri watch and the probably-internally-identical MARQ ATHLETE should be able to be bought around about now too. The feature-improvements over the 935 are many and varied but most fall under the ‘additional smarts’ and ‘peripheral niceties’ categories…which is not to knock them.…
Some awesome deals at REI with 30% off selected Garmin and Polar 30% Garmin deals here includes Fenix 5 and 5 Plus 30% Suunto deals here 9 Baro, Spartan, etc Other 30% Anniversary deals here
When you use Garmin Connect/Express on your computer to install a data field or app from the online CIQ store then you will probably find the experience to have been OK but certainly not a WOW moment. Plus when you are in a car in the middle of a field and you want to add,…
