The Forerunner 265 is still a good watch. It now has a successor with a nicer screen, a speaker for phone calls and a higher price tag. If you own a 265, you’ve probably wondered whether your wrist is falling behind. If you’re shopping, you’re looking at two watches that look almost identical. Here’s the
Garmin Forerunner 265 vs 570: Is the Upgrade Worth It? Read More »
Shin splints are the injury that punishes you for getting fitter. Mine got worse in January, and by the end of February I had to stop a run because the pain kept building. It cost me the half marathon I had signed up for, so I raced the 8 km instead. By June I was
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Every group ride has the same argument. One rider swears tubeless changed their life. Another is on flat number three of the season and can’t decide whether to switch or just buy better tubes. Both have a point, and the right answer depends on how you ride and race. Here’s how tubeless vs tubes actually
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Picking a first bike computer sounds easy until you open two spec sheets. Both brands promise great navigation, long battery life and easy ride tracking. Neither tells you what happens six months later, when a ride refuses to upload or the screen washes out in the sun. In our house, I ride with a Wahoo
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Shopping for a runner is harder than it looks. You can’t guess her shoe size, her watch is already sorted, and a random tech shirt is a coin flip. I’ve bought running gifts for my wife and my sister over the years, and a few have earned a permanent spot in their running bags. Here
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Your friends head out for an easy run and chat their way through 5:30 kilometres. You try the same thing with a heart rate cap and end up at 7:00, watch beeping, feeling like you’re barely moving. It’s easy to assume your zones are broken, or your body is. Usually neither is true. There are
Why Is My Zone 2 Pace So Slow? 7 Real Reasons Read More »
You pull your bike out of the travel case at the hotel and something’s off. Shifting hesitates, a hanger looks bent, or there’s a clunk that wasn’t there on your last ride at home. A mechanical during race week feels different from one during training. There’s no home shop with your maintenance history on file,
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There’s no single “easiest Ironman 70.3.” Depending on which leg gives you the most trouble, swimming, biking, or running, a completely different race is the right call. A lot of “easiest 70.3” roundups also treat a current-assisted swim as one race’s unique selling point, when it’s actually a fairly common course feature. Augusta, Washington Tri-Cities,
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Store-bought carb drinks add up fast once you’re training more than a few hours a week. A single serving of Precision Fuel PF60 or Maurten Drink Mix 160 runs $3 to $5, and if you’re doing back-to-back long rides or brick sessions, that adds up over a season. I started mixing my own a while
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Buying gear for a new cyclist is a minefield. Bike shops love to upsell, Amazon reviews are half fake, and everyone with a road bike has an opinion on what a beginner “needs” on day one. I’ve been riding long enough to know what actually gets used and what ends up sitting in a drawer
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