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Hey hey! I hope everyone is having a great first week of April! This is The Girl writing to you for the DC Rainmaker weekly newsletter. “Weekly” being the optimistic word there, and might be more lovingly referred to as the “Occasional Newsletter”. So this week, I am back to the good old fashion DC Rainmaker headquarters. AKA the couch! The little peanut is off to daycare and I figured this would be a good time to sit down and have a good blab. You can read the meanderings of the Maker world below the fold in the “In Depth Thoughts of The Girl section”, but first a review of what’s been happening around the wonderful world of DC Rainmaker. Since the last newsletter we have seen two in-depth reviews and a “sorta in-depth review”. That’s including the Garmin Forerunner 953, Xert Training platform. As well, there is a first look at the Polar M430. Ray also informed us about Running Dynamics, and of course my favorite posts 5 Random things. Recently the 5 random things include family photos, chocolate chip cookies, and Ray’s inspiring talents as a painter. Now if you don’t have all day to go read Ray’s 60+ page in depth reviews, then pop over to the DC Rainmaker YouTube channel and check out the shorter versions. Especially the Polar 430 video. I did the camera work there and I think you will see quite an improvement in cinematography. There are like 8 new videos on the channel that you can go check out. I won’t link to all of them I promise. But the Garmin 935 open water swim test might be interesting to some of you as Ray had also just recently posted the Fenix 5 open water swim test. Just a thought. If you have been listening and enjoying the podcast by Ray and Ben Hobbs, go here. These two have been feeling the heat as I’ve been giving them crap over their “weekly podcast” appearances. Recently they’ve been successfully geeking out and now podcasting regularly, so go have a listen. If you haven’t read enough banter from me yet, remember to keep scrolling down to the best part of the newsletter, “In Depth Thoughts from The Girl”. |
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Hands-on: Polar’s M430 GPS watch with optical HR
Today Polar announced their latest wearable, the M430. This unit follows in the footsteps of the popular M400 by adding in an optical heart rate sensor as well as a… |
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Running dynamics finally gets its own standard
Yesterday, three and a half years after the running efficiency metrics ‘Running Dynamics’ were first announced by Garmin, they received their own legit standard. In doing so, 3rd party companies… |
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5 Random Things I Did This Weekend
Definitely another beautiful and sunny weekend in and outside the city. Here’s what I was up to 1) Fixing shifting and swapping power meters I’m constantly swapping power meters and… |
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Week in Review–April 2nd, 2017
The Week in Review is a collection of both all the goodness I’ve written during the past week around the internet, as well as a small pile of links I… |
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Xert Training Platform In-Depth Review
It’s been about a year since Xert plopped onto the training platform scene, and in that time it’s grown both considerably in functionality, as well as users. So what is… |
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TrainingPeaks New Structured Workout Integration with Garmin Wearables
Tied into yesterday’s Garmin FR935 release was TrainingPeaks announcing rollout of their new dedicated Connect IQ apps. This new integration allows you to sync structured workouts that you or your… |
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In Depth Thoughts from The Girl Well heyyyyy there, thanks for making your way down to my neck of the woods! So I have to say I just wasted like an hour of time clicking around Ray’s blog! You see last week, somehow, I missed this post “2500 posts”, which includes 25 posts by the Blog in 100-post increments. One post in particular caught my attention! It was our RV-ing adventure to one of our favorite triathlons back in Virginia.
Sweet, this was the most proud I’ve ever been of myself for a performance. And that means “ever”, like in all of my soccer, squash, triathlon, and running days… EVER. It is very hard for me to sit back and say “yea, you did awesome”, I’m usually so annoyingly critical and unsatisfied with performances and it usually takes a long time before I can reflect on a race and realize that was pretty awesome. So, this Las Vegas race experience was a game changer (mentally) for me. One that I just went flat out from the gun, zero regard for heartrates or power output on the bike (to my Coaches annoyance… sorry Coach), and I just hammered for the entire race, no looking back, no backing down. I was extra excited for this race report by Ray because (unfortunately) had food poising before that race and decided to just spectate. So with my own personal sport photographer for this race, I was anticipating an epic review of my hard work and winning efforts! Right? Right? Ummm… No. This race report contained exactly 1 picture and no mention of my final standings or epic heartrate data. What the?!? Remembering that I already admitted that I just wasted an hour of time, I then headed over to my original blog (no longer updated) to check out my own race reports section and alas I found my Las Vegas race report. Now there is a memory box for you. You know, I hated writing for my own blog. It felt so self-obsessed writing about myself all of the time, and really who was reading it anyways? But, now that I look back and read a post like that, I have a good laugh. I’m so happy to read my super wordy reflections. For me, it’s just fun to have an old digital diary with pictures to go back and remember from time to time. As big side note, I was also so happy to see I had included a graph of my heartrates! People still don’t believe me when I talk about my HR’s, but I am definitely an outlier to the heartrate training sciences, and to this day boggles Ray’s mind. However, these crazy heartrates have provided great testing opportunities for Ray, and he often used to train side by side with me wearing a watch that was also paired to my heartrate strap just to see for himself. I wonder if it was my impressive heartrates and tiny wrists that really won him over. I mean where would the blog be today without him being able to use these two personal characteristics of mine? Watch wrist comparison photos and heartrate graphs would have been pretty beige.
Anyways, that’s an overly long reminiscing session of the athlete I used to be! Ha, maybe someday I’ll be an age group competitor again… maybe in the 40-45 females? That’s all folks, Lucy (chief editor) is exhausted and is expressing her desire to go run. Until next time.
~The Girl |
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