Nice setup. Looks like you got something to motivate you, which is always good.
I've used a bunch of Garmins in the past and now use a Fenix 5 watch to track stuff and have not had an issue with any of the units, but I'm glad to see Wahoo competing against Garmin. The only Wahoo product I have experience with is my Kickr, and I frankly love that thing. Next up you will get a power meter and then get crazy geeky about numbers like - FTP, CTL, ATL, TSB, TSS, 6 week TSS average blah, blah, blah...which will all tell you that you love to ride bikes. lol Seriously though, if you are into training, being able to quantify it with good data points is really awesome. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 4:21:25 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > I'm mostly an unracer, but I work hard for a Racing Team, and I train with > that Racing Team, so I'm a part-time un-unracer. I count my miles on > Strava, and earn badges for climbing and mileage, and I gauge my fitness by > setting PR's on segments in the area. > > I've upped my un-unracer game by finally going full-techno, and I spent my > REI dividend on a modern cyclometer, the Wahoo Elemnt Bolt. The local > Randos who didn't like Garmin for various reasons all seemed to like the > Wahoo, so that's what I bought. It's a GPS unit, which pairs to my phone > over bluetooth, and connects to the internet over my WiFi. It captures all > my ride data and syncs it to Strava on my phone, so I no longer need to use > GPS on my phone, which extends my phone battery life. The Elemnt allegedly > has a ~14hr battery life fully active. Today I did one of my benchmark > rides on it, and I used a heart rate monitor, which adds another aspect of > entertaining numbers-geekery. My bundle also came with a separate cadence > sensor and a separate speed sensor, but I haven't used those yet, and may > not ever. Whether my fitness is good, or having a cyclometer motivates me > to go harder, or my new Black Mountain Monster Cross is simply an > extraordinary bike, I can't quite tell, but I set a ton of PRs this > beautiful morning, even though I was on 29x2.0 knobbies, on roads that I've > ridden numerous times with a "road bike". It definitely makes me feel that > "it's mainly the motor". Since I'm fitter, and since I've lost 20 lbs, and > since I had a screen to look at, and since I'm on a cool new bike, I > pedaled harder and went faster. > > Here's a shot of my kind of crowded cockpit: > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZHoaijXydc4/Wrq1s8vWR9I/AAAAAAAADzA/91cEAj8eWH4AIB4MwVQjueip9miytVAyACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_0306.jpg> > > > Bill un-unracing Lindsay > > El Cerrito, CA > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
