Tag: fitness
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On Garmin and Coros
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s easy to fall into the trap of looking at expensive Garmin watches and thinking that maps are a premium feature, when, in fact they are not. Suunto and Coros offer them on affordable devices, should you require that feature for trail running, hiking, and more. If you want to use the…
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The Sunrise Run and Croissant Loop
Reading Time: 2 minutesNaturally we think of doing group activities in the evenings, after work, or over the weekend, when we’re free for the entire day. Some people take the opposite approach. They wake up early to go for a morning sunrise run or a croissant loop bike ride. The concept is simple. Instead of…
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The Runna Paradox and Social Comfort
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s ironic that since I started a Runna fitness plan my "fitness" has been going down rather than up. The simple reason is that although the workouts are challenging, they’re challenging for a short time. Take this morning’s bike ride for example. It was short in distance and time, but high…
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A Run to Blue Sky
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday we were under the clouds for the entire day. Low lever clouds or fog kept us away from the sun. I noticed that someone on Strava had managed to get above the clouds by going for a bike ride. I decided to try to do the same thing, eventually, by running.…
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The Garmin End of Year Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Garmin Connect End of year summary is currently available, and updating daily. The stats are quite interesting, Despite cycling as much as I did Garmin says that I took 3.8 million steps this year and that in March I took 486,000 steps. That’s when I was hiking a lot. Activities…
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Garmin Connect, Explore 2 and Instinct 2 Experimentation
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGarmin connect isn’t as smart as I thought. I thought that if I used the Explore 2 with a heart rate belt, that I would get training status and training readiness. For a week I was tracking with the Explore 2 as my primary tracker. Data is missing. It’s a shame…
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Strava – How to Upload Manually
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince Strava has decided to sue Garmin, and since Suunto has decided to sue Garmin as well, for different reasons, I feel now is a good opportunity to remind ourselves of how to upload to Garmin and Strava manually. Exporting to Strava Garmin If you record an activity with a Garmin device,…
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Cycling Uphill Faster
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been up the Molard climb four times this year, and each time I sped up by a little. Twice my time improved by two minutes, and when I tried yesterday it improved by only a few seconds. With an average of 2000 meters of climbing per week I can feel…
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On the Irony of Expensive Cars
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few weeks ago two individuals in a car yelled abuse at a group of us who were cycling. They were mad that a cyclist did not pull in for them to pass easily. At this point I thought "Despair is not sat on a bench as in the proverb, he is…
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Ignoring the 80/20 rule with Group Rides
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I rode with Group 2 rather than Group 1 with TDC. I believe I could keep up for a second time. I also believe that when you’re cycling hard three times a week it takes a lot of energy.My experience last Saturday showed that I was pushing myself too hard by…