Starting today April 10th, for a limited time, PowerMeterCity (USA) are selling the Garmin Vector 3 for $899, a saving of $100! The Vector 3S (single-sided version) will also be on sale for $549. Garmin’s newer products are rarely discounted so this is a good chance to grab one of the best-looking power meter…
Well. I have to say I’m hacked off about this. First it was Google Earth requiring payment from developers that meant my images on SportTracks had watermarks all over them – I did find a workaround that involved giving Google my credit card details. Then it was finally figuring out after two years that it…
I like the occasional heatmap. Sometimes they are very pretty, like the one below from Suunto’s MOVESCOUNT in 2016 and could almost be a work of art for your pain cave’s wall. Sometimes you might be ‘somewhere new’ with little idea of where to cycle, swim or run. Sure you have a satnav but is…
ELEVATE is a browser plugin that provides deeper insight into your workout data that resides in STRAVA. It used to be called STRAVISTIX but the developer ThomasC, recently decided to re-brand it to ELEVATE FOR STRAVA. It’s currently only available on Chrome & Opera but the Firefox plugin is also imminent. It takes a while…
After last week’s post on STRAVA’s RELATIVE EFFORT I was pleasantly surprised to see it extended THIS WEEK to now work through browsers, rather than just on the app. The extended browser functionality looks like the image shown above and, additionally, each recent workout is shown below that chart complete with a colour-coded RELATIVE EFFORT…
STRAVA introduced RELATIVE EFFORT almost a year ago (April 2018) as a replacement to their Suffer Score. It’s been expanded to provide validity across many sports and to better accommodate shorter, harder efforts. There is new functionality related to RELATIVE EFFORT available at STRAVA online, on your STRAVA app and on some cycling devices –…
In certain circumstances, it seems that you can add your country’s flag to your public STRAVA name by using emojis. Of course, you can add the flag of your favourite supra-national organisation too if you like (Eu), the flag of your favourite cause or even an emoji of a snail or racing car for those…
You probably know that you can define a circle of privacy around your home to mask the starting and ending points of your activities on STRAVA. I’d always thought that someone with bad intentions could fairly easily circumvent this masking, so I’ve always had my the5krunner account on STRAVA set to be fully private. But…
STRAVA has certainly changed the cycling landscape allowing us to be a little bit more social and, sometimes, rise to the challenge of defending historic performances against attacks from young whippersnappers from out-of-the-area trying to steal all our QOMs/KOMs. It’s even helped Northern Hemisphere cyclists to keep cracking on with FTP-boosting efforts through the balmy…
I can’t even blame an alcoholic stupor for inadvertently booking onto a cycling expedition across the Pyrenees. I just simply forgot that I don’t like going up hills that much and got starry-eyed and blinded by the thought of being the first person to cycle from the Atlantic to the Med across the Pyrenees. OK.…
As part of berating some of the media yesterday around the STRAVA heatmap military fake-furore, I had to upgrade my account to PREMIUM to see the heat maps. For some reason I had let it expire. Tut tut. So today I then had to go and activate my free insurance perk that comes with STRAVA.…
OK. I’m just about to fall in the trap of calling lots of other people ‘idiots; and then go and do precisely the same thing myself. I’ll add my poor attempt at a defence against idiocy later. The story goes that the likes of STRAVA, Suunto, Fitbit and others, who have HEATMAPs of user activity…
Heatmaps are all well-and-good. Unless there is lots of data they are warmmaps, not heatmaps. Now let’s think who might have oodles of data. Garmin..yep, they do. Oh yes, STRAVA too. This VERY clearly shows that the UK is awesome. And looking at runners in the South West we can see that you are all…
How will STRAVA POSTS affect you? STRAVA has been tinkering again. This time with STRAVA POSTS. We’ve seen a series of interesting little developments over the course of the year linked to STRAVA. I particularly liked some of the perks that STRAVA announced they were offering to PREMIUM users. I was pleasantly surprised that such…
We all know that STRAVA means STRIVE in one of the Scandinavian languages. Now STRIVE exists too. (link to: strive.ai). Maybe that means STRAVA in the English language? It’s currently in beta and is providing advanced analytics based on your STRAVA data. I’ve only had a chance to glance through my POWER stats for both…
STRAVA’s latest campaign is for it to become the unfiltered you. You just share your best efforts with friends/family on facebook. But STRAVA shares them all. I suppose it is an ‘honest’ reflection of your efforts or lack of them. I’m not so sure that I particularly want to share shots of me emptying my…
We all love STRAVA. What’s not to love? They are still striving to move the company into the black which must be tricky with all the R&D they are ploughing into the product. That’s also hampered by many of us not coughing up the subs for the premium edition and all the features it contains. Even…
The STRAVA app has already been working fine on AndroidWear v1.X (AW). Naturally the company have confirmed it will be upgraded to support the impending release of AndroidWear 2.0 where it will grace the screen of the Polar M600, New Balance RunIQ, Asus ZenWatch 2 &3; Casio WSD F10; Fossil Q Founder/Wander/Marshall; Huawei Watch; LG…
All of the UK’s runners added together in 2016 climbed 1 billion metres. That’s a very big hill. The rest of the world managed an additional 5 billion. C’mon Switzerland, do your worst. You need more people. When is the most STRAVAest Runningest day? 11th September of course. Anywhere in the world, on that day EVERYONE…
I guess I’m fairly happy with the Fenix 3. For me it does most of what I need. Perhaps the GPS could be improved slightly – it’s largely OK when I use it. We’ve speculated on some likely features for the Fenix 5 based on what has already been added to the CHRONOS and on…
