A few thoughts about the Polar Vantage M after (almost) one year of use.
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All shoe companies claim unique designs, but once in a while a shoe comes along that actually deserves the disctinction. Are the offerings from On Running worthy?
A comparison of two activity and fitness trackers: the Fitbit Charge 2 and the Polar Vantage M.
It’s been just over a month since I completed my first marathon. One thing has become clear to me during this time: I’m not very good at running just for the sake of it. Many people talk about a low after achieving a goal in athletics. I haven’t been feeling down, but I have found myself wondering what is next. Do I keep running long distances? Or longer runs (marathons aren’t that big of a deal in our age when so many people are doing ultra marathons in extreme climates)? Get into running wit…
Way back when I first started using Strava, I came across this excellent post on Reddit by Jimmy Daly (not a source I link to often … Reddit, that is). In it, he describes how he exported all his Strava runs to Airtable and uses IFTTT to add any new ones (his base is listed here [https://airtable.com/universe/expBjY9LXuoVoerz9/running-log]). > I am perpetually dissatisfied with training logs. For years, I used notebooks, then Google Spreadsheets and more recently have relied on Strava to track…
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve bonked on my longer runs. This often happens to me in a minor way around 14–15 KMs. But during my long run last week, it happened at 5 KM in. I finished just under 27 KM, but it was a thoroughly unenjoyable run and very slow. So it got me wondering about my nutrition. And reading. The link above has been helpful for getting a better understanding of how to approach this goal. And I thought I would share a few others: * A Complete Guide to Proper Marathon Nu…