To the Chilterns!
To the Chilterns!, a set on Flickr.
Or, how to burn 2280kcal over 54.9km, and have lunch with the best view over Oxfordshire.
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On Garmin and Polar chest straps
Both Garmin and Polar make chest strap heart-rate monitors. Garmin's product looks expensive, but you only ever need to buy one: it'll fail within the warranty period and they'll replace it for free. Polar's are modular, and I haven't had
Inhabiting William Gibson's Modern Trilogies
I think William Gibson is best known for the Sprawl trilogy, and specifically Neuromancer. Amazingly he has written other books: the Blue Ant/Bigende trilogy, and the Jackpot series, among others. Pattern Recognition - there will be spoilers in general - follows Case Pollard, a woman who has an allergy
Spring Julbo EVAD-1 Update
I have a couple of other posts on the EVAD-1, tl;dr is that the software is incredible, but the early hardware I had was... challenged. Four years on, how's it going? Problems 1. Swipe sensor doesn't always want to swipe. 2. No way to turn
Brief Sennheiser Momentum Sport Data Analysis
Sennheiser released their Momentum Sport headphones in 2024-04, an interesting partnership between Polar (they who invented the chest-worn ECG) and an audio company. Historically, the ear has been an excellent point to measure both temperature and heart rate from, so logically these headphones should have been able to readily replace