Tag: sports
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The Appeal of the Coros Heart Rate Monitor
Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving a watch with an Heart rate (HR) monitor is fantastic until you realise it’s counting 20 BPM too high, and then it’s far less interesting because it’s reporting a moderate workout as heart. Plenty of heart rate monitors come as chest straps and that’s great if your workout starts and ends…
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On INTVL and Ingress
Reading Time: 2 minutesINTVL is a new game that you play by running, cycling, or both. The concept is simple. Every time you go for a run you capture “territory” from others and every time others go for a run they do the same thing. For this game you don’t need to stare at your…
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On Cancelled Sports Due to Heat but encouraged Noisy Entertainment
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the news they tell people over and over, “Don’t run in the heat” and don’t go out during the hottest part of the time” and yet they organise fan zones in Nyon, or other events in Asse and more. They tell us that we shouldn’t run, that we shouldn’t cycle but…
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On Extroverts and the Stifled Online Conversation
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I was considering joining someone’s Whatsapp Running Community until I heard the phrase “I am the only one that can write messages and I let people answer polls”. For me, as a netizen of the 90s web, this is a red flag. It is a red flag because if all you…
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On Solitude, Cycling, and Whatsapp
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe more I use Whatsapp, in the Post pandemic age, the more toxic I find it. Last night I wrote something innocent. I wrote about rotisserie chicken and the temptation to have some before drinks. So far, so normal. Someone I never met, and never talked with, in person, put a crying…
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Offloading Locomotion to Cars and the Transition to AI
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I was thinking about how some people want to offload their work to AI and it got me to think about how people already offloaded getting around to cars. When is the last time that you saw a group of people walk from Nyon to St Cergue via La Dôle, rather…
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Of Cycling and Via Ferrata
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night a bike ride was cancelled for this morning due to the risk of rain. As a result I got to sleep in rather than get up to ride at dawn. In the process I got to rest. It also confirms that the seasons are changing. It’s because seasons change in…
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The Call of the New And Cycling
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis weekend I cycled 160 kilometres with the Bike Club Switzerland Group via Meetup.com. In the process I find that I appreciate the community more and more. I appreciate that the groups are small, but also that people are like-minded. By like-minded I mean that people are sporty. Today we went for…
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The Desire to Participate
Reading Time: 2 minutesI saw that there is a hike taking place nearby. I would have really liked to join it but I would have been participant eleven with a limit of ten people. I wanted to participate because it would have required walking to Nyon, and taking the train de St Cergue to St…
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Garmin and Other Services
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I wore the Suunto Peak 5 alongside the Apple Watch SE rather than the Apple Watch SE and Garmin device as I usually would. The reason for this is that I want to continue playing with Suunto devices, and I’d like to wean myself off of the Apple Watch, for at…