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  • On Self Hosting and Having Multiple Devices

    On Self Hosting and Having Multiple Devices

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI grew up in the eighties, and 90s, and so computing, open source software and the world wide web grew up with me. In that time we went from going to magazine shops to buy mags, and cd shops to buy CDs, and book shops to buy books. We also took photos…

  • Back to Suunto From Garmin

    Back to Suunto From Garmin

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI like Garmin Connect and the Garmin Instinct 2. Both the app, and the device are good and they’re reliable for tracking sports on a daily basis. Having said this, I felt the urge to slide back to my Suunto devices and the Suunto app. For many, many, many years I was…

  • Of Apple, Casio, Garmin and Suunto Wearing

    Of Apple, Casio, Garmin and Suunto Wearing

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThere was a time, for decades, if not centuries, when a watch provided us with the time. We would wear it in a pocket, attached to a chain, we would stare up at a clock tower and we would see the time. We might even hear church bells to indicate every quarter,…

  • Strava – How to Upload Manually

    Strava – How to Upload Manually

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    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,…

  • Sports Tracker is Waking Up

    Sports Tracker is Waking Up

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the 2000s I was using a Nokia N95 8gb with Sports tracker to track my walks every day. Eventually, when I started scuba diving I switched to Suunto to track dives, and eventually wore one for hikes, and then I upgraded to the Suunto Ambit 2, 3, Spartan Wrist HR Baro…

  • Public and Private on Strava, Komoot, Garmin and Suunto

    Public and Private on Strava, Komoot, Garmin and Suunto

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I have used Sportstracker, and then Strava and Komoot and others. Whether I use one platform or another isn’t much of a concern. I can send my data everywhere. The question is whether I make that data public, private, or a hybrid compromise. With Suunto and Sportracker I usually keep…

  • The Mature Smartwatch Habit

    The Mature Smartwatch Habit

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI see people. I see them say that they have given up on wearing fitness trackers and smartwatches because they hate the tyranny of the device. I have felt an intense dislike for Apple behaves in particular. At the same time I have been playing wit Sportstracker for eighteen years or so.…

  • Of Suunto, Garmin and Apple

    Of Suunto, Garmin and Apple

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor years I wore no watch, and then I took up scuba diving, and then I wanted to wear a watch when climbing, and then it escalated from there. Now I have Garmin, Suunto Apple, Casio, Xiaomi and other watches. It’s easy to justify wearing the Apple watch because it’s a smart…

  • Garmin and Other Services

    Garmin and Other Services

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    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…

  • Apple Watch SE Versus Others

    Apple Watch SE Versus Others

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople will always ask me why I wear two watches and the answer is now “because one is a smart watch and the other is for sports, and people accept that quite easily. The reasons I used to give are no longer needed. I learned how to keep a short answer convenient,…