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Week in Review–Dec 22nd, 2018

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Garmin Fenix 5 Plus Series Beta Firmware Update: Fixes power meter related bug.

A look at BSX Insight, a bloodless lactate threshold testing device

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The BSX device will also take your heart rate data from an ANT+ heart rate strap, ANT+ power meter, or ANT+ footpod - and ‘bridge’ it to your phone, sorta like some of the other ANT+ to Bluetooth Smart bridges. … For this test that was with a standard ANT+ footpod, but they’ll be including an accelerometer based footpod variant within the BSX device itself.

A look at the new Polar Beat Bluetooth Smart app with H7 Heart Rate Strap

www.dcrainmaker.com/2012/10/a-look-at-new-polar-beat-bluetooth.html

Thus, I’d like to see it support the Bluetooth Smart speed and cadence sensors (which are available today from Wahoo Fitness) as well as the power meter (specification essentially finalized, units trickling out now). … You’ll also be able to set whether you see units in miles or kilometers.

A day of continuous heart rate monitoring

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Then we have to park the little car in it’s designed Zipcar-like spot, rush across the street, into the bike shop, validate things are good on both her new bike and untangling the power meter crank arm on mine. … Initially when first envisioned, it would have done both continuous HR monitoring, as well as accelerometer based motion sensing, and a bunch of other metrics around skin temperature, response and more.

Hammerhead and Suunto Partner: Heatmaps on Hammerhead, Workout Sync to Suunto

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Suunto will even calculate those for non-power meter or heart rate sensor users. … Meaning, Suunto will do the math just like it would on normal watch activities using more basic parameters to estimate it.

The New Garmin Forerunner 310XT Openwater Swim Mode…In Depth.

www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/06/new-garmin-forerunner-310xt-openwater.html

At which point, you’re ready to roll! Do note however, that in swim mode, all ANT+ sensor data (incoming) is disabled, so if you were to run/bike with it later, you wouldn’t have things like heart rate, cadence or power. … This was a 25m (meter, not yard) short course pool, that I did 250m in.

Why I’m both skeptical and optimistic about The Dash heart-rate monitoring music headphones

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It won’t support ANT+, as the company said it would draw too much power. … The team plans to use the accelerometer located in the unit to correlate impact against the optical sensor noise to attempt to clean up the data.

Week in Review–August 11th, 2019

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- InPeak Power Meter - Handling feedback to make a better product…

Garmin’s Running Dynamics Pod (RD Pod): Everything you ever wanted to know

www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/03/garmins-dynamics-everything.html

So the pod clips to the back of your running shorts, in many ways like the initial prototype Stryd Running Power Meter did, or, how the Lumo pod does. … The device has an accelerometer inside, just like the HRM-TRI/HRM-RUN straps did.

Week in Review–February 28th, 2016

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Polar V650 Firmware Update: Fixes Stages power meter support.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

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(Sometimes I put extra watches on the frame when I need to collect power meter or other non-GPS data, as…… As you may remember from last week, we left off with me pushing a cargo bike a few kilometers with another cargo bike splayed atop it (in the middle of the night), to get some repairs.

Wahoo Fitness gives sneak peak of new BlueHR–Bluetooth Smart heart rate strap

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Cadence or Power Meter), and it’ll instantly support all ANT+ devices out there.

Week in Review–March 22nd, 2015

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Tuesday: PowerTap announces P1 Power Meter Pedals, also PowerTap C1 chainring unit…

Spring meets DC, and I meet the 1980’s.

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In some cases one might do a double-take on power meter calibration, but I’m lucky in that I can get a quick double-check from the CompuTrainer and they both are in the same ballpark +/- a few watts (as usual).

A split-brain week (and weekend)

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Still tons of good stuff – starting with tomorrow and the "Everything you ever wanted to know about the Polar/Look Keo power meter” post. … Here’s a look at what it looked like as we were finishing up: Though with the 400’s set for a given split (1:21), I had to go a bit harder to make them work in the 2nd lane given it was 8 extra meters.

Insta360 GO 2 Tiny Action Cam In-Depth Video Review

www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/03/insta360-go-2-action-review.html

With that, I’m off onto my bike to get perhaps one last power meter data set.

Spectating the 2017 Tour Down Under

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So on this stage I was looking to see how many riders would be riding Shimano’s prototype power meter for example (one active, one spare bike). … In the case of most stage starts (non-crit), the first few kilometers are more of a warm-up, and considered a neutral zone.