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Comment on Coolness: Me and Simon Whitfield presenting at ANT+ Symposium by Luc Perreault

Luc Perreault — Mon, 27 May 2013 02:19:49 +0000

Ray,
I find you to be the perfect spokesperson to represent me in my quest to find the ideal race/training solutions. I loved the 2011 41min ANT+ symposium presentation!

Being a 39yo athlete, techno geek and a workaholic CIO/CTO, I highly value the KISS concept and in turn, tools that syncs my training/race data without data duplication (or use different apps to view and analyse), goes under water (at least 15m), will take the beating of a 12k Spartan race (30th of July 2013) and still be sexy enough to go out on a date with my hot wife (ok… I can ditch the watch for said date, but would prefer not to)

Unfortunately, Garmin 310XT/910XT are far from a sexy training computers, I fear Suunto products will be a pain to link up with 3rd party apps (RunKeeper…), Polar watches and GPS accessories love and hate water (GPS vs HRM pods), Polar tools are also far from having the desired battery life to support a 17h Ironman (yeah… that’s also on my bucket list), TomTom might ship the multi-sport watch before I die of old age (and what about battery life?) and will Timex ever find the right technology to acquire a GPS signal (and then not lose it) within a reasonable time frame and so on…

I value my tools and use/promote them daily. If my race/training tool dies on me or becomes obsolete because a communication protocol is pushed aside, then I’ll just stop using said tools.
I know I wish for perfection, but if they build it, they will come! (at least I will). I’m still looking for a cell phone training computer replacement (I fear my zip lock protected cell phone will not survive the Spartan race).
I’m even taking May and June off to train for Spartan. Heck, I need the break anyway! So I need a water loving cell phone replacement solution to help me attain my race goals.

Thank you for being you and I cannot wait to read your comments and new reviews!

Luc

Comment on How to download free maps to your Garmin Edge 705/800/810 by Ray

Ray — Mon, 27 May 2013 02:18:48 +0000

Yes. Limited by the 800′s SD card size, which I believe is limited to a standard speed 32GB, but mine card is smaller.

Comment on How to download free maps to your Garmin Edge 705/800/810 by Bob Quindazzi

Bob Quindazzi — Mon, 27 May 2013 02:08:22 +0000

That’s down to the size of the SD card, correct?
I’m new to the Edge (haven’t even received it yet) but Ray’s directions imply you leave the SD card in place.

Comment on How to download free maps to your Garmin Edge 705/800/810 by Ray

Ray — Mon, 27 May 2013 02:01:55 +0000

Whoops. Cancel that last comment.

Comment on Garmin Forerunner 310XT In Depth Review by Randy Lorge

Randy Lorge — Mon, 27 May 2013 01:44:02 +0000

Is there any way to check the 310′s calibration? I road a 1/2 IM course this weekend and I was off by 1.25 miles. My training partner wore his 910 and was almost perfect with 56 mi. As I read your article, which was great by the way, (thank you!) I wonder if it could have been due to slight signal loss during the ride, Your thoughts?

Comment on Suunto Ambit 2 and 2S In-Depth Review by steve snyder

steve snyder — Mon, 27 May 2013 01:38:43 +0000

love your reviews & adventures! I would like to see run cadence and would think the ambit could use arm swing (accelerometer) to “get it”. That seems easy to me but cannot see access to that info to write an app. Foot pod versus GPS issue is goofy as you pointed out. Even if they resolve that, I still don’t want a foot pod for cadence. Am I missing something?