Remember last summer when it was found that COROS had a slate of pretty severe security vulnerabilities? Initially, these vulnerabilities were ignored by COROS, but following a wee bit of newly applied internet assistance, the company quickly started to focus … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Now two years after Favero started their Pro lineup of power meters, they’ve completed the cleat type rollout, by announcing their Assioma Pro RL power meter pedal, with Look-compatiable cleats. This follows the PRO MX (off-road SPD) in 2024, then … Read More Here → | Continue reading
TrainingPeaks Virtual has expanded with a major new feature that lets you import in a GPX route and ride virtually any route/road/path on the planet. As long as you have a route you’ve already ridden, or create a GPX route … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Huawei has launched the new GT Runner 2 watch to pretty strong fanfare: A dedicated running-focused event with Eliud Kipchoge in Madrid, a slate of new features, and a new GPS/GNSS antenna design that they are saying is the headliner … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Amazfit has released its latest watch, the Amazfit T-Rex Ultra 2, which is basically a bigger and more battery-laden version of the Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro released last fall. They also swapped out the flashlight’s secondary call for green LED … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Favero has decided to give all of its Pro RS & Pro MX power meter pedal users a bit of a Valentine’s Day present, more than doubling of their battery life via a simple firmware update. The process takes a … Read More Here → | Continue reading
After nearly 6 years, we finally get a new Garmin radar, the Varia RearVue 820, which brings with a host of new features…and USB-C. Finally, USB-C to their base radar (only their camera edition had it previously). The new unit … Read More Here → | Continue reading
After nearly 6 years, we finally get a new Garmin radar, the Varia RearVue 820, which brings with a host of new features…and USB-C. Finally, USB-C to their base radar (only their camera edition had it previously). The new unit … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Just a super quick heads up that Wahoo has put the Wahoo KICKR CORE 2 on sale, as an ‘end of season’ sale. While I’m not entirely sure I’d count the first few days of ‘end of trainer season’, most … Read More Here → | Continue reading
In arguably one of the biggest bits of new for outdoor-focused Apple Watch owners in years, Komoot just announced true offline mapping and routing for their Apple Watch app. Up until now, their app required some sort of connectivity, notably … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Back a month or so ago I ordered a mini 3rd-party Garmin charging battery bank. I can’t remember if I stumbled upon it myself on Amazon, or a DCR reader pointed me at it. Either way, way-back-when, I ordered … Read More Here → | Continue reading
It seems rare in 2026 (or anytime this decade) for a new web platform to be launched that allows you to create routes, save those routes as files, and more…all without paying for it. Or, even more notably, without creating … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Last week Strava launched their new ‘Instant Workouts’ feature, which leans on Strava’s acquisition of Runna (and probably also their acquisition of The Breakaway, too). The app is for subscribers only, but aims to give the user a weekly … Read More Here → | Continue reading
I’ve long wanted a way to link Philips Hue lights with Zwift (or my trainer), but the solutions were never that awesome. In fact, one of Zwift’s co-founders’ earliest geekery side projects was controlling smart home lighting via Zwift. … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Suunto has just rolled out a pretty solid update, continuing a seemingly recent trend over most of the last 6-8 months of more frequent and more notable firmware updates. The updates during this timeframe has been a blend of … Read More Here → | Continue reading
As expected by leaks over the holidays, Garmin has announced food and nutrition logging to Garmin Connect. Or rather, more specifically, their paid platform, Connect+. The feature largely replaces the functionality long provided by MyFitnessPal, which allowed for food … Read … | Continue reading
With the New Year, sports tech companies are trying to get ahead of CES next week, with their announcements. While I don’t expect much notable in the endurance sports hardware realm next week at CES, I do expect we’ll see … Read More Here → | Continue reading
After moving to Mallorca last year, many of you wondered if we’d be able to keep up our annual tradition of getting the Christmas tree by bicycle. A tradition that started when we were living in Paris, continued as we … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Slowly but surely, we’re starting to see the benefits of Garmin’s consolidated platform take effect. I believe this is the very first time we’ve seen every device on the new platform get/start the public beta on the exact same … Read More Here → | Continue reading
The Garmin inReach Mini 3 & Mini 3 Plus is the most substantial update to the Garmin inReach lineup in years. If not, ever. At first glance it might seem like perhaps just a color change, and for the base … Read More Here → | Continue reading
It’s December - and you know what that means: It’s time for the annual (and sprawling) - Sportswatch Year in Review video! This marks the 6th year in a row for this annual video, where Des of DesFit, and … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Here's your complete comparison between ski tracking modes in both of the two popular sub-250g sports-tracking drones, which require no remote control or other accessories to follow you. In this case, I took them out on back-to-back tests on … Read More Here → | Continue reading
In this episode, we chat about the summer and fall releases from Suunto and COROS, including the COROS Nomad, Apex 4, and Pace 4 as well as the Suunto Race 2 and Vertical 2. 0:00 In this episode... 2:00 … Read More Here → | Continue reading
The Elite Square is one of those reviews where I just couldn’t figure out how/where to review it, as the goalposts seemed to keep on shifting, both in terms of the product and how to review the product. So instead … Read More Here → | Continue reading
As much as I’d like to get to every product in-depth review before Christmas, I’m very realistic that isn’t going to happen. I’m trying, but the backlog is real, and the onslaught of new products this past fall has been … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Yesterday Garmin released the inReach Mini 3 & Mini 3 Plus, but along the way, they also expanded support for having multiple inReach devices on a single account - which was a pretty big limiter once the Fenix 8 Pro … Read More Here → | Continue reading
It's time for a new drone sports testing Gauntlet: The Mallorcan Gauntlet. This one is objectively more challenging than the long-standing Amsterdam-based Gauntlet. Both for the drones, but frankly, me trying to piece the portions together. In any case, the … Read More Here → | Continue reading
There are nearly 150 deals listed right now in my sports tech massive deals tracker, which I’m updating near-hourly. However, this one on the KICKR CORE 2 (my just published longer term review last week) from Wahoo might be one … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Here's all the best sports tech deals for this Black Friday and the holiday sale period ahead. As always, I've categorized all the deals by type, and then added various notes or things to consider. For the Garmin deals, there … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Just a super quick note that, in between all the other reviews on the back burner, the winds picked up today, and I couldn't resist taking out the brand new NEO 2 overwater for some high-speed wind testing. And … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Here’s your consolidated list of the best action camera and drone deals, with tons of insight for those using these products for sports, such as follow-me drones and more. In virtually every product below, I’ve used them extensively across countless … Read More Here → | Continue reading
It’s been a bit over 2 months since Wahoo announced the KICKR CORE 2, and in that time both myself and my wife have put an absolute boatload of miles on it (or, kilometers) to see where it works well, … Read More Here → | Continue reading
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is the first Apple Watch to get two-way satellite communications, and in my testing over the past nearly two months, it’s also the watch with the easiest to use satellite communications features that largely … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Garmin has kicked off its Holiday 2025 sales, with the Fenix 8 at $250 off, the Venu X1 at $200 off, and a slate of other watches at $100-$150 off. The way Garmin structures its sales, these will be the … Read More Here → | Continue reading
I suppose I could collect these in a ‘Week in Review’ post, but some of them are worth a touch bit more discussion, thus, here we are. This is like the potpourri of Garmin news and tidbits from the last … Read More Here → | Continue reading
I don’t tend to talk about customer service bits much, unless they get so bad that enough people e-mail me that I have to look into it. The reason is relatively simple: It varies a ton, especially (and often) by … Read More Here → | Continue reading
The COROS Pace 4 has arrived, and with it a slate of hardware enhancements over the existing COROS Pace 3. In addition, these hardware updates have enabled new software features - such as a display-based flashlight as well as … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Almost exactly one year after Strava began a campaign to reel in 3rd-party apps, the company itself had to comply with new rules imposed on it, as a direct result of that very campaign last year. Rarely has there been … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Earlier this fall Zwift announced a bunch of new features that’ll roll out over the course of the fall and winter (well, Northern Hemisphere winter). Since then we’ve seen a number of small tweaks and new features, and that’ll continue … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Strava’s multifaceted legal (and social media) attack on Garmin was short-lived. Just 21 days after filing the original patent infringement case, alongside a Reddit post from their executive team attacking Garmin, the company has decided to dismiss the case … Read More Here → | Continue reading
I test a lot of devices. Most of them, are frankly, kinda forgettable. Not that there’s anything wrong with them, they’re great. But they aren’t game-changers in my workflow or sports life. Instead, they are typically an iteration of … Read More Here → | Continue reading
The new Pixel Watch 4 is here, and with it satellite emergency SOS communications, as well as more battery life, a brighter display, and deeper AI integration with new Gemini features. The Pixel Watch 4 is best viewed as … Read More Here → | Continue reading
COROS has introduced the COROS APEX 4, a watch designed to streamline the previous APEX 2 Pro & Apex 2 Non-Pro versions into a single edition, while concurrently skipping the number 3. Because…umm…never mind that. In any event, the … Read More Here → | Continue reading
I've published a complete 360 Action Cam Comparison, with all three leading action cam companies having released new models this year, I dug into more than 45 features that differentiate them (or, in some cases, don't). Given this is … Read More Here → | Continue reading
It’s back again – Amazon Prime Day…err…Days? That means that most (all?) Amazon country/regional properties are doing pretty substantial deals across the board on all sorts of products for two days. As usual, deals last till they last. While there … Read More Here → | Continue reading
In this episode, we chat about Strava's lawsuit against Garmin and why they're demanding Garmin cease selling devices. We also cover Strava's now even more infamous Reddit response. For those not subscribed to the FIT File (it’s free!) via … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Strava has sued Garmin, an act that I very much did not have on my bingo card for 2025. In doing so, they are demanding that Garmin cease selling effectively all of their fitness/outdoor watches, as well as cycling … Read More Here → | Continue reading
The Suunto Vertical 2 makes the end of an era, but equally so - the beginning of a new one. Barring some unexpected/unplanned change in direction, there are no-more new MIP-based display sports watches planned from Suunto (setting aside existing … Read More Here → | Continue reading