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2010 Athlete Gadget Holiday Gift Guide

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It’s tiny, weighs less than an egg – yet includes all the major cycling features like speed, cadence, distance and ANT+ enabled power meter support. … This dongle allows you to connect to any ANT+ device, be it a power meter, heart rate strap, speed/cadence sensor, footpod, Tanita BC-1000 scale, or even the new Garmin Chirp (for you geocaching folks).

Norway in a Nutshell

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Which brings me to the Norseman iron-distance triathlon, which was held last weekend. … But the vast majority of the time the wind was strong enough that when I got up from my plastic chair on the deck of the boat, it unexpectedly flew away from behind me and shot across the deck with enough force and speed such that if grandma had been in the way she would have gotten run flat over (by the chair, not the reindeer – which they eat here).

First Look: The Suunto 3 Fitness: Lightweight Non-GPS Sports Watch

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But it wasn’t clear if that swimming profile will also track distance/pace/laps, or just a time placeholder. … But Suunto isn’t ready to specify if it’ll connect to cycling sensors (like a speed/cadence sensor).

My Photography Gear: The Cameras and Equipment I Use Daily

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This is because my core shooting range is at a distance of 1-10ft. … I just don’t need the speed or other aspects for an even higher end camera.

5 Random Things I Did This Past Weekend

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No GPS on my bike, but just a swag on distance and time based on the rough route that we took. … With that – more on the marathon tomorrow, and then a bit later in the week I’ll wrap up some of our journey down the coast before I head into the Pyrenees for some riding this upcoming weekend (albeit without The Girl, as she’ll whisk back to Paris on the high-speed train).

Hands-on: Airdog’s new ADII sports-tracking drone

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While many jurisdictions have additional flight distance laws, most are at least 300-400m or so. … To me, this would be pretty easy to implement since you could just have an option to set the speed and camera angle (the other pieces they already do today)…and they’d be done.

Apple Watch Series 9: What’s New and Hands-On

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New UWB 2 (Ultrawideband) chip, which increases finding of things (like your phone), including exact distance and direction, but also…… However, in terms of just general watch speed and responsiveness, while the new chips are probably faster, it wasn't something I could really notice in day-to-day use.

Sunday Tidbits: Polar’s new Vantage V Titan + Roadmap Updates, Suunto Updates, and Xert iOS App

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Lap details: time, distance, average pace etc., in the training file on your Vantage watch… So it supports power, cadence, speed, heart rate, and trainers (Bluetooth FTMS).

Peloton’s New Bike+ (Plus): Everything you ever wanted to know

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And after meeting up with the DCR Reader (in a socially distanced way), I threw it in my kidnapper van and drove back across international borders. … It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more.

Stages Starts Shipping New Dash M50/L50/L10 GPS Bike Computers: First Ride Details

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Albeit somewhat annoyingly Stages doesn’t write the final distance or ascent data to the .FIT file (you can see that on the Analyzer as well). … - ANT+ & Bluetooth Smart sensor support (Cadence/Speed/HR/Power)

Kinomap Adds New Features: Strava/VeloViewer video integration, Revenue Sharing, ASO Virtual Race, and browser-only version

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Ignoring the team pieces for a second, today the way it works is that on the right side of the screen you’ll see your speed/distance/HR/cadence in those little bubbles, while the left side you’ll see other people in your group (and your equipment). … Later this month they’ll be running a partnership with ASO (Amaury Sports Organization - owner of the Tour de France), around the L’Etape du Tour.

Garmin Launches Clipboard App For Coaches: Here’s how it works

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For example here is distance between Des & GPLAMA, and then resting HR and activity HR between the two of them. … For example, there’s currently a bug (set to be fixed shortly) that cycling activities don’t get their speeds filtered out from the running paces.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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Then it was going in circles till we saw Santa off in the distance. … With a high-speed belt moving on its own accord, if something goes wrong, it’s going to go wrong very fast, and very hard in my case.

Paris Blog: A Road Trip to the French Coast

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At this point they are building the elevated bridge platform that will connect the main visitor area (way off in the distance to the right). … However, the region has three high-speed ferry routes to the UK, which is just over an hour away by boat.

Weekly Mailbag–May 8th, 2010

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Recent Mailbags: Weekly Mailbag – May 1st, 2010 - Open water swimming options in DC - Why I will not ‘Share the Damn Road’…Part II - Modifying the Garmin Auto-Pause Speed - Training Peaks and the Mac Device agent Weekly Mailbag – April 24th, 2010 - How to turn off that annoying automatic opening of Garmin Training Center - How to trim/edit workouts that have accidental chunks of time/distance on them - Choosing between the FR101 and FR305 for petite runners - Questions on cooking hard boiled eggs using Sous Vide All past mailbags here. … Question #2: Makeshift Swim Buoys From Brandon- (Side note: Brandon runs a great triathlon non-profit program out in California for youth in some at-risk areas.

Polar Ignite 2 Hands-On: What’s New & Different

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As you swipe down it’ll show the breakdown by HR zone for the totals, and you can also get total calories, activities, distance, and time. … It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more.

First Ride: Everysight Raptor Cycling Heads-Up Display

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In general, with a heads-up display, you need to learn to shift your focal point briefly from the distance to close up. … - Connects to both ANT+ & Bluetooth Smart sensors (Speed/Power/Cadence/HR)

Tuesday Tidbits

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Secondly, it doesn’t have GPS, but does utilize a foot-pod and cadence sensor(s) for run and bike distance measuring. … But I’m making progress on short speed – which is important for a season focused on short course… After work I set out into the sunset for my hill workout.

Shimano Dura-Ace R9100P Power Meter In-Depth Review

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That’s where we use this small magnet tool to measure the optimum distance from the bottom bracket to where the magnet should go. … It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more.

Apple Fitness Plus Review: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know

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Oh – back in the class, you’ll notice the distance on running. … And if you scroll down you’ll get a ‘For Beginners’ section that aims to get you up to speed with a series of shorter and more simplistic workouts.

Night Rider

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Two local triathletes – one I know (Hi Nathan! He and I actually finished back to back in a number of local Oly-distance races), and another person with him that I’ve seen around. … Then there’s setup and invariably at least one ANT+ device will be ticked off between all of our Garmin HR straps, cadence sensors, speed sensors and watches.

Turn by Turn Navigation Rolls out to Wahoo ELEMNT

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All it will show is your steps with negative distances next to them, indicating you need to go find them yourself. … More Detailed Live Tracking: Right now live tracking is merely a dot on a map, with no context of speed, distance, or where you went.

GoPro Max Action Cam In-Depth Review

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The trick to getting everything seamless is distance. … Finally, it’s worth noting that within single-lens mode, the Max camera now supports using the GPS data for overlays of telemetry ‘stickers’, things like speed or a mini-map.

Pre-race time back in the pool with wetsuits

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Given this was the first wetsuit TT of the year I hadn’t quite refined my effort expenditure to pace for that distance (after all, the effort is very different than if I swam without a wetsuit). … After all, while the wetsuit certainly speeds swim times (5 minutes per mile is a commonly accepted number for the average triathlete) it also makes it easier to get lazy when it comes to form.

A short behind the scenes visit to Suunto and Omegawave

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No worries though, the distance between build area and the yellow lines was no more than a meter or so in most cases. … Impressive speed.