{"id":116,"date":"2004-10-18T19:51:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T23:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2004-10-18T19:51:56","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T23:51:56","slug":"new-cool-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/10\/18\/new-cool-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"new cool toy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using the new(ish) Polar 625X<\/a>, and I have to say I’m impressed. It measures pretty much anything you’d want it to while running – heart rate, speed, distance, altitude (for incline\/decline info), pace, and temperature – and also works with a couple cycling attachments to do all of the above plus cadence and power measurements. It has a ridiculous amount of memory, which allows me to sample data at various intervals (I chose 5s<\/abbr>) and track how I’m doing. The foot pod is very accurate, and I like the watch\/pod combo much better than wearing a Garmin cooler<\/a> on my wrist.<\/p>\n

Good stuff, and I’m liking the Polar software, which allows me to export data in a useful format (unlike the PC Coach shit they used to include). I’ll write a review of the unit and my first couple weeks experiences this weekend. A sample graph, taken from this Sunday’s Run Club (where I group lead for a Learn to Run class) can be seen here<\/a>. We’re doing eight-and-ones (eight minutes running, one minute walking) plus a two minute run. The flatline on the speed (blue) is after the run while stretching. The flat incline\/decline is from the canal path, which is a very flat run. All good stuff, and it’s kinda neat to compare the graphs with where we were\/what we were doing on the run. It was only a 20 minutes session, but it felt great.<\/p>\n

My LTR<\/abbr> class is awesome, and I can’t believe we’re at week 9 already. I think I’m going to try to teach the next one if I can.<\/p>\n

Have I mentioned how happy I am now that I can exercise again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using the new(ish) Polar 625X, and I have to say I’m impressed. It measures pretty much anything you’d want it to while running – heart rate, speed, distance, altitude (for incline\/decline info), pace, and temperature – and also works with a couple cycling attachments to do all of the above plus cadence and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}