It’s pretty. It feels good on the wrist. It comes from a LONG line of great Polar products. But is it any good? Polar’s M430 is a notable upgrade to Europe’s best-selling M400 from late 2014. As an upgraded product it certainly seems to have much less of the niggles present in other newly…
Polar have now officially announced the M430. It’s a smart running watch. It’s an evolution of the M400 – which was a great device in its day. The 2 stand-out changes hardware changes are: It uses the TOP-END Polar optical HR sensor array. What does that mean? A: Awesomeness from the M600; and The sometimes-temperamental USB…
Polar’s latest M200 running watch is priced as a budget model yet it has some advanced components on board that make it worthy of consideration for many levels of runner. It generally ticks the boxes with: GPS accuracy; personalised training plans for most levels of runner; and an inbuilt optical heart rate monitor for the wrist. It…
I fancied a 16 mile run today so the obvious thing to do was route it around my standard 10ish mile GPS test route. I’m using the Suunto SPARTAN now for most of my runs. My main reason for using it is that the STRYD integration works fairly well but also because the GPS is…
Detailed Product Reviews & Usage-Based Recommendations by Real Runners…NOT Journalists.
Fancy starting a sports blog and getting loads of freebies? This post highlights lots of reasons why that won’t happen. Well, you can start the blog but the freebies will probably not follow. Also I’ll list some of the problems with reviews that you might not be aware of. Two posts in one. Feedback and questions welcomed and I…
It looks like the Lenovo-owned MOTO brand will not be continuing with smartwatches, according to The Verge, although the existing MOTO 360 (2015) may well be updated to AW2.0 in Q1.2017. Guess which one of these will still be being sold in 2018. It also looks like Fitbit will be buying Pebble. Fitbit haven’t got…
