Product : Strava Strava is to Garmin what water is to rain, Strava is basically a service for uploading your rides from your Garmin Edge 500 to strava which then analyses your data giving you what you want to know and nothing else. By itself strava is argubaly not as powerful as online services such [...]
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Product : Garmin Edge 500 No product is arguably as ubiquitous in the Melbourne cycling world as the Garmin Edge 500. The cycling computer made by GPS wizard Garmin is a staple of cyclists in Melbourne. Like cyclists are universally fueled by pasta cyclists are given data on the training by the Garmin almost without exception. I [...]
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About a month ago my Garmin screen started malfunctioning. Horizontal lines started appearing obscuring my vision of the screen. I tried getting some answers but aside from updating the firmware which didn’t work I got nowhere. On Sunday after Dirty Deeds I rode covered in mud to the Flemington Showgrounds to see Ausbike. Upon getting there [...]
Read more →Many of you will know that I love Garmins. While they are undoubtedly the best speedo on the road their off the bike functionality makes them the best speedos around. The Garmin allows you to sync to multiple platforms wether it be web or desktop. The 305 I got came with Garmin Training Center which is an [...]
Read more →VS VS Keeping a Training Diary is one of the most important parts of Training. If you train but don’t keep a diary you could not possibly have an idea of what was helping you improve! More importantly though if you change or get a coach you are making it much harder for them to [...]
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