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  • Garmin Expedition Challenges

    Garmin Expedition Challenges

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesGarmin have had challenges for years. Most of them have been about distance, or vertical climbing. Now they have new Expedition challenges. Each expedition is named after an expedition or adventure by the same name. The Camino De Santiago challenge is a challenge to walk 784 kilometres. The Denali challenge is to…

  • Of Casio, Suunto, Garmin and Apple

    Of Casio, Suunto, Garmin and Apple

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThese four brands create watches. Casio creates rugged watches with batteries that last for a decade or more, and pair with mobile phones to track walks and more. Suunto and Garmin have fitness/sports trackers that measure activities, whether sailing, climbing, running, walking, cycling, scuba diving or more. Apple in contrast creates fragile,…

  • A Week and a Half With The Garmin 45S

    A Week and a Half With The Garmin 45S

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have spent a week and a half with the Garmin 45S and it doe what I expect the Garmin to do, but with more regular charges. The battery is rated to last for a week working as a watch and up to 13 hours working as a sports tracker. You can…

  • 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…

  • Playing With Garmin Coach

    Playing With Garmin Coach

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I began playing with Garmin Coach. I decided to try one of the running programs. It’s the first of January, first day of the year, and I have already been for two walks and a run. The run was a calibration run so I ran too fast and too hard so…

  • The Warm Sun

    The Warm Sun

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

  • Running Around in Loops

    Running Around in Loops

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the last week or two I decided to run and to swim. These are two sports that are easy to do if you have access either to a pool, or the right shoes. Swimming was in 14°c water for 17 and ten minutes. The first time my hands and feet were…

  • A Christmas Swim

    A Christmas Swim

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe watch got to 92 days of battery life. I went for a swim in 15c water. it was just a pool swim.

  • 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…

  • Garmin Etrex32x and Software Updates

    Garmin Etrex32x and Software Updates

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdating software is something that we do every single day, often without knowing that it is being updated. WatchOS updated two or three days ago. iOS updated yesterday recently as well. The most notable was Xcode, because it requires several gigabytes of space or it fails to even try, if it detects…