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  • Five Years With The Suunto Spartan

    Five Years With The Suunto Spartan

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have had the Suunto Spartan for around five years, the Apple watch Series Four for Four and the Instinct since November 2021 and I find myself gravitating back towards the Suunto Spartan watch again. I pivoted away from the watch and Suunto because it moved towards WearOS and smartwatches, rather than…

  • Laravel and Context

    Laravel and Context

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is value in studying Laravel and context. By this I mean that over a year ago I wanted to study Angular but after feeling lost in Javascript I decided to take a step back, to study JavaScript. I studied two or more courses over a period of months. I could have…

  • chatGPT, GPT3 and Reading Time

    chatGPT, GPT3 and Reading Time

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTime for a new discussion to take place. Reading time. Do you read through articles or do you skim them. Is reading the headline enough or do you read every word of the article? I ask because in the age of chatGPT and GPT3 I would ask the same question as I…

  • Apple Health Step Data Sources

    Apple Health Step Data Sources

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I spent some time looking through Apple Health Data Sources. I see that there are plenty of data sources. These are the Apple watch, the iphone, Alltrails, move, connect, stepsapp, pacer, Suunto, Ingress and three more that are marked as inactive. Move is the app that gets data from some Casio…

  • Casio and Other Watches

    Casio and Other Watches

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf we wear a Suunto, Garmin, Apple watch or Fitbit the device wants us to wear it for sleep, for every step we take, every heart beat and more. At the end of the year we do get fitness summaries but related to what we ran, swam, cycled and possibly walked. That…

  • Rest and Recovery Apps

    Rest and Recovery Apps

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesEither you can buy a collection of casios that each have different functions or you can download apps that have a niche purpose. I have been playing with Gentler Streak and Training day. One looks at heart rate and training. The second looks at resting heart rate and heart rate recovery. According…

  • The Warm Sun

    The Warm Sun

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Garmin Instinct warmed up in the Spanish sun while charging.

  • Walking Into Heavy Rain

    Walking Into Heavy Rain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you end up walking into heavy rain. That’s what I did today. I looked at the weather and because it was meant to get better over the coming days I assumed that this evening it would get better. Instead, as I walked it started to rain a little more, and then…

  • One Year With The Garmin Instinct Solar

    One Year With The Garmin Instinct Solar

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesI bought the Garmin Instinct Solar because I was interested to see how the Solar option works. As with most watches the solar panels take several hours to recharge the watch, even during summer heatwaves. The Solar part is great, if you’re in Spain and leave your watch to recharge in the…

  • Four Years With The Apple Watch Series Four

    Four Years With The Apple Watch Series Four

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have spent four years with the Apple Watch Series Four. Although I should feel the opposite I have found that for most of its life I have loved to hate the watch. The first thing I hate about the Apple Watches is that they’re fragile. I had a series three and…