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The go pro: on the ice with the NHL is nutz! Its part of the pole vault video (end advert). Watching lundqvist is dizzying
Sorry for another off tangent question… don’t know where to ask this so….
We need some smart connected bathroom scales and was wondering where its at techwise? Withings WS-50?? We’re a 100% Garmin household with Android phones & tablets plus a MacBook Pro and a latest Ver. iPod.
Thanks
Personally I went the cheap route. Costco currently has the Taylor Bluetooth Smart Scale for $30. It syncs to an app (Android and iOS) that syncs with MyFitnessPal which in turn syncs with everything under the sun (including Garmin Connect). Works great. Body fat measurement, etc is as iffy as all of them, but weight is spot on, which is all I really care about.
Hi Shawn,
I don’t see it online at Costco. I assume you bought it at one of the warehouses?
I generally use the Withings and Fitbit scales interchangeably (I have one brand at the Studio, and one brand at the house). There is (or at least was a few months ago), a way to tie in the weight data via MyFitnessPal and then it showed up in Garmin Connect. Sorta a backdoor. Was described in some detail on the Garmin Forums.
Where do you want the data from the scale to end up? Both Withings and Fitbit will push the data to numerous sites. I have the Withings Body Analyzer which pushes the data to their app, TrainingPeaks, MFP, UP24 app, ect…. Some of those Apps can push it to other places. Despite the way this reads, it is very seemless.
Thanks Ray, much appreciated. Have decided to go for the Withings. Will check out the Garmin connect thing as thats where we’d want the info.
Thanks for your posts this weeks Ray, hope you get back to your best shape soon!
Thanks Hubert!
If Paris were to win the Olympics, the Cycling road race could essentially be the final stage of the Tour de France, with some slight modifications to make sure that the distance is right for the Olympics.
OTOH, if Boston wins (an idea that both terrifies and thrills me), the marathon could finish on Boylston. (The whole course wouldn’t work, being point-to-point downhill.) Bring in the Emerald Necklace portion of the BAA Half and get something like this (a bit short, but gets the idea.)
Hope you saw the drone coverage of the RAK half marathon. I heard it was good.
The airbag is cool and all, but I find something different fascination about the avy video. The slope held when it was loaded by skiers, but once Lopez was barebooting, that was a different sort of loading that the slope couldn’t take. Tremper (and the new edition of Fredston and Fesler to some extent) really hammers on the point that the snow pack reacts differently to different kinds of stress, and even if it’s adapted to one stress that doesn’t mean it will hold up under a different one.
The UCI Video was made at the UCI in Aigle. We have bewn there the last couple weeks for training. DC when do you come over to Switzerland ?
I know…I keep wanting to come over, especially for some of these hour records!
That freehub. Isn’t that the same as this failed kickstart project: link to kickstarter.com
(failed in the sense it didn’t make the money cutoff, don’t know about their product)
For those interested in the increase running cadence article, this is some of the recommendations from the author of that paper:
link to dropbox.com
link to running-physio.com
I saw that pole vault video the other day, and enjoyed it. Took me back to my High School days of pole vaulting. Obviously she was probably higher in the air than I used to get :-p
Wow:
link to theatlantic.com