I’ve been on the Afib journey since 2018, and have learnt a lot so thought I’d best start writing some things down to try and help anyone else. It’s often quite a frightening thing to discover when first diagnosed. So part 1, how it all started In 2017 was getting […]
Parlee ESX Aero Di2 superbike size 56 now sold. This was a £10k bike UK review here https://www.bikeradar.com/…/parlee-esx-video-review/ Summary of review: In all, though, the ESX is a wonderfully realised machine. It has all of the speed benefits of an aero bike with none of the compromises – if it […]
There are a fair few areas within the UK that have lifts and run when they have snow and volunteers! The ones I know about are below, with the info taken from their webpages. Yad Moss THE SNOWBeing England, the snow at Yad Moss is unpredictable and the amount of […]
I recently had issues connecting my Macbook to the free wifi in Costa. I tried wifi diags, rebooting and nothing worked. It connected but never bought up the validation page. I had custom DNS servers set up and by clearing all those it then worked and allowed me to authenticate […]
I recently walked the Yorkshire 3 peaks, running the Workoutdoors app to provide the route. I was very pleasantly surprised to end the walk with 37% battery left after being out in the Dales for 10hrs and 20 minutes! I had my phone with my the whole time, so the […]
I’ve been using the Apple Watch series 5 now for a few months and heart accuracy has definitely dipped during colder runs. Sadly I no longer trust it during the winter. The picture below shows the first 7km of a run with the Apple Watch recoding HR (as my wife’s […]
Another tick in the box for the Apple Watch 5 after moving away from a Garmin 945 as it performed very well whilst skiing over the past 2 days. Battery usage for 6 hours skiing was only 40%, using the Ski Tracks app. Everything worked fine, it updated Apple Health […]
So all in all my switch from a host of Garmin watches to an Apple Watch has mostly been a good experience. Apart from heart rate whilst running. It seems very susceptible to dropping the heart rate or not picking it up correctly at all as the below two screenshots […]
Since moving from a Garmin 945 to an Apple Watch 5, I’ve been using WorkOutdoors as my goto GPS app. The more I use and learn about it the more impressed I am! I noted a few tips within this macrumors forum thread, so wanted to note them down for […]
I’ve been using WorkOutDoors as my goto GPS app and used it walking the dogs tonight. Zooming in and I’m really impressed, it shows the exact moment I crossed the road, and then where my dogs went to a grass verge to sniff around and do their business! I then […]