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My weekend: Stonehenge, a float on the Queen Mary 2, and a day in Hamburg 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
After yesterday’s post about the Queen Mary 2 runaround, I figured I’d give you a bit wider look at our long-weekend. It included a visit to the famous Stonehenge site, a 2+ day voyage on the Queen M...
A look at the now available Wahoo Fitness Strava Segments App 26 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
A little over a week ago Wahoo Fitness released the Strava Segments app. It was ironically just shy of a year ago that I previewed the app at the time of the KICKR unveiling at Eurobike. Since then ...
A Queen Mary 2 Runaround 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
The past few days we’ve been floating along on a rather large boat. Technically more of an ocean liner, but still, it did float. The Queen Mary 2. Yes, a long lost but still rather close relative of t...
Week in Review–August 25th, 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
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 found interesting – generally endurance sports rel...
Heads up on late summer & fall events and conferences I’ll be attending 24 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
It’s about time to head into the busy late summer and fall period. At least, a busy period in the sports technology world. Typically the sports technology world introduces devices at one of two majo...
Tip of the day: How to display your name and phone number on your Garmin Edge 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
A few days ago a reader tweeted me an interesting little tip that I hadn’t seen before. It allows you to specify a startup message that’s displayed to the person turning on your Garmin Edge unit (hop...
Initial thoughts on Garmin VIRB sports camera with ANT+ connectivity 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
On Tuesday Garmin announced their entry into the sports action camera market – a market currently dominated by GoPro, with a slew of other companies behind it (such as Contour and many others). The in...
First Look: Wahoo Fitness RFLKT+ with ANT+ to Bluetooth Smart Bridge, Barometric Altimeter 21 Aug 2013 | 10:18 am
Last night Wahoo Fitness unveiled the next edition of their bike computer – the RFLKT+ (pronounced Reflect Plus). The RFLKT+ builds upon the previous RFLKT unit that was announced about a year ago by...
Cycling to the most easterly point in North America 20 Aug 2013 | 10:47 am
After driving out to Cape Spear last Monday I decided that it would make for a perfect long ride this weekend. Except, I wasn’t quite content with just a ‘simple’ out and back. No, I’d add in a bunch ...
Week in Review–August 19th, 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 10:15 am
Given I’m ‘on vacation’ this week (and last, and this next), that means I may from time to time lose track of weekends vs weekdays. That’s what vacation is for, right? Thus, here’s the Week in Review ...