Fitbit Daily Readiness Score Review: Here’s How it Works

Today Fitbit announced that they are rolling out their new Daily Readiness Score to Fitbit Premium users. This covers the Sense, Versa 3, Versa 2, Charge 5, Luxe, and Inspire 2. As long as you have one of those devices | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Muoverti’s Tiltbike Looks Cool: But It’s A Long Ways Away

Muoverti managed to capture the excitement of cycling news sites everywhere this afternoon, announcing their upcoming Muoverti Tiltbike indoor smart bike that kinda looks like a real bike, while also apparently being able to lean fully (and theoretically without tipping | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Scosche Rhythm+ 2.0 Gets Multiple Bluetooth Connections Update

Scosche has released a firmware update today that enables multiple concurrent Bluetooth connections for their Scosche Rhythm+ 2.0 armband optical heart rate sensor. Previously it allowed unlimited ANT+ connections, but only a single Bluetooth Smart connection. With today’s update … | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Tech Tidbits: Xert Adds NPE CABLE Support, TrainerRoad Adaptive Training Leaves Beta

Indoor-focused trainer app news will be all the rage for the next while as companies try and pique your interest going into the colder seasons here in the Northern Hemisphere. Though, in this case, both companies also support outside workouts | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Oura Ring 3: First Impressions After A few Days

Earlier this week Oura announced their new Oura Ring 3, both an upgrade in hardware as well as a shift in business models. For those not familiar, the Oura Ring aims to track your daily activity, as well as nightly | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

GoPro Announces Firmware to Address Hero 10 Overheating, New Enduro Battery Announced

Over the weekend GoPro semi-quietly announced that they plan to issue a firmware update that’ll give users more control over how the Hero 10 handles no-airflow conditions, enabling upwards of a 147% increase over recording times. For those that had | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Ironman Acquires FulGaz Training App: Plans Ironman Training App

Ironman has just announced the acquisition of FulGaz, the indoor training app for cycling. As part of the acquisition, Ironman will create a secondary app that caters specifically to Ironman athletes. This new app will include full rideable courses and | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Huawei Adds Dual-Band GPS to New Watch GT 3

Huawei announced their latest slate sport-focused watch today, the Huawei Watch GT 3, available in both 46mm and 42mm configuration. While the watch looks like many other AMOLED display smart watches, it actually has substantially better battery life that you’d | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Zwift Details Plans for New Neokyo Map, New User Interface, and Clubs Public Launch

For the first time in Zwift’s history, they held what would be akin to a product launch event, detailing their upcoming product plans. Albeit, one that was given in private to the media rather than publicly. But nonetheless, the resultant | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

DC Rainmaker State of Sports Tech 2021 Keynote

It’s up! The 2021 State of Sports Tech Keynote that was delivered last week, encompassing everything going well…and not so well, in the sports tech industry. From watches to indoor training, sensors to action cams, and given this is an | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Garmin’s Connect IQ Platform Updates: A Round-Up

Yesterday Garmin held their annual developer conference, officially called the Garmin Developer Virtual Conference (GDVC). This event is the successor to the Garmin Connect IQ Summit, which in turn is somewhat the Garmin-focused sibling to the once ANT+ Symposium. Albeit, | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

COROS Rolls Out Strava Routes Sync & Multi-Pitch Climb Support

When COROS announced their maps-laden Vertix 2 this past summer, one of the biggest criticisms from virtually every reviewer was that getting planned navigational routes onto the unit was cumbersome and time-consuming (at best). That was because it required you | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Zwift Details Challenges With Building Their Own Hardware

CyclingTips today published a great ‘From the Top’ podcast episode about the history of Zwift, talking to both Jon Mayfield and Eric Min. Those two being two of the co-founders of the platform, with Jon bringing the initial development/technical side | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Cycling Esports World Championships on Zwift for Feb 2022

The UCI has announced that the Cycling Esports World Championship will be held February 26th, 2022, on Zwift. The last part being more notable than the date, as there was actually no guarantee it would be held on Zwift. In | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

COROS Expands Targeted Recall of APEX GPS Watches: An Explainer

Back in August COROS started issuing more widespread recall notices for “select” COROS APEX 46mm watches. Though, as each week went by, the recall seemed to expand further and further. COROS stated that certain watches have sent back data to | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

The Fascinating Reason Why The Garmin FR945 & Fenix 6 No Longer Shows Pool Temperature

Back in August Garmin released a minor firmware update for the Forerunner 945 multisport GPS watch. On paper, firmware update 7.80 was about as boring as they get. The release notes only contained a handful of items, none of which | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Polar’s Vantage V2 SHIFT & Red Models + Unite & Grit X Features Firmware Update

In addition to today’s new Polar Grit X Pro & Pro Titan models that Polar announced, they also announced two additional Polar Vantage V2 models – the SHIFT & Red editions. Further, these models as well as existing Vantage V2 | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Polar Grit X Pro GPS Watch In-Depth Review

Polar has announced a handful of new watches today, but the main headliner is the new Polar Grit X Pro. It technically comes in two flavors – the base Grit X Pro which includes not only a new look, but | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Week in Review–October 3rd, 2021

The Week in Review is a collection of both all the goodness I’ve written during the past week around the internet, as well as a small pile of links I found interesting – generally endurance sports related. I’ve often wondered | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Suunto’s Movesense Sensor Division Spun Off As New Company

It’s been almost 5 years since Suunto first announced their ‘Movesense’ developer program. The idea behind that was to enable 3rd party companies to leverage Suunto’s small sensor pod for various applications. It could be used as a heart rate, | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

A Deep-Dive Into GoPro Hero 10 Overheating

If you’ve been around this site long enough, you now I occasionally go down rabbit holes. And by ‘down’, I mean I find myself a rabbit hole – go and acquire a large drilling platform, and go so far down | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Tech Tidbits: Wahoo Adds Pan/Zoom, Moxy Kickstarter, and Polar Teasing

We’ve got three items to quickly run through on this mid-week edition of the Sports Tech Tidbits. Never quite as good as Timbits, but still good enough.Wahoo Adds Pan & Zoom:If your weather has turned crappy like mine, you might | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Hands-On With Wahoo’s New SYSTM Training Platform

At first glance, one might just assume that Wahoo’s new SYSTM platform is simply The Sufferfest rebranded (Wahoo acquired The Sufferfest a few years back). And you’d be about 50% correct. The Sufferfest videos are still very much there, but | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Fitbit Charge 5 In-Depth Review

Fitbit’s new Charge 5 aims to take their most well-known wearable series and catapult it forward with a revamped AMOLED display that doesn’t feel like a TI-82 graphing calculator that previous Fitbit Charge units have had, while still trying to | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Strava Testing ‘Mute Activity’ Option to Reduce Feed Spam

 Strava is testing a new feature to some 50% of their user base that allows people to mute an activity of their to their feed when publishing. The idea being that many of us might have more trivial workouts | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Wahoo’s New ROLLR: Exactly what is it?

Wahoo has non-announced a new product over the past few day. . Part roller, part Either way, whatever it is, Wahoo decided that secretive spy-shots of a product quietly being tested by a low-level pro rider in a small European | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

GoPro Hero 10 Black In-Depth Review

These new frame rates are possible via the new GP2 chipset, or SoC (System on a Chip). This is GoPro's 2nd custom-designed silicon to run their cameras. GoPro says Hero 9 was basically at it's limits with GP1 in terms | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Apple Watch 7 Launched: Complete New Features & Tech Details

Today Apple has launched their Apple Watch 7 slate of watches, including the largest display in the Apple Watch lineup to date. This is combined with WatchOS 8, which was announced back in June. Meaning that while many new features | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Sports & Fitness Video Review Posted

This is a super quick post for folks waiting on the Samsung Galaxy Watch4 In-Depth review, to note, that the video review is now up and available! I’ll have the written review out shortly, but this gets you a head | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Why yes, it’s that time of year again – ‘5 Random Things’ time! While we had a few random things posts this past summer, I think the weekend slate is now diversified enough to get back to semi-regular ‘5 Random | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Week in Review–September 12th, 2021

The Week in Review is a collection of both all the goodness I’ve written during the past week around the internet, as well as a small pile of links I found interesting – generally endurance sports related. I’ve often wondered | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Whoop 4.0 Announced: Here’s What’s New and Changed

Today, Whoop announced their new 4.0 sensor/device. Whoop is part-device, part-platform. The device is a small pod that doesn’t display any metrics itself, but rather has sensors to collect those metrics and transmit them to your phone and the larger | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Elite’s New Training Desk: First Look

Elite showed off their new trainer desk at Eurobike, which includes multiple power ports, and the ability to fold up for easy storage. It maintains the same style as both their Tuo trainer as well as RIZER gradient/steering accessory (and | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Aero Optim 20J – The Wind Tunnel For Everyone: A Brief Explainer

Tucked away in a corner of one of the many desolate halls of Eurobike this year was Japan Wind Tunnel Manufacturing, and two of their wind tunnels under the Aero Optim names. When I first saw them early on the | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Shimano’s Dura-Ace & Ultegra Power Meter (2nd Gen): Technical Deep-Dive

While much of the attention of this week’s new Dura-Ace R9200 & Ultegra R8100 Di2 product launches have been focused on the wireless and 12-speed access, far less has been written on the 2nd generation power meter. Likely because unlike | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Wahoo Delays POWRLINK ZERO Speedplay Power Meter Pedals

This post will be a quickie. Namely, because I only have one line of information to share, but nonetheless, for what seems like a constant flow of people – that’s the one line they want to know. As you may | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Fitbit’s New Charge 5 Details: Starts To Go After Whoop

At Fitbit’s annual end of summer announcement event, the company did not announce a Wear OS device (of any type). Though, they did (re)-commit to building one sometime in the future. Instead, they announced the Charge 5. The company says | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

FORM Adds Structured Workouts To Smart Swim Goggles

FORM has just announced structured workout support for their heads-up display swimming goggles. The marks the second major summer update for the goggles, which last summer got openwater swim support added (when paired with a Garmin or Apple Watch).This new | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Wahoo Adds New RIVAL Features: Race Distance Snapping, Find my Phone, and More

It’s been a couple months since the last Wahoo RIVAL GPS watch feature update, but true to their word, Wahoo has continued to add new features to the RIVAL GPS watch. Some of these race/athletic focused, and some of them | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Openwater Swim GPS Test Extravaganza Results

A few years back I took a week while warm-water swimming to test a slate of GPS watches in openwater. Like a race, each watch got essentially one go at it, competing against another watch on the other wrist – | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

COROS VERTIX 2 Deep-Dive User Interface Video Posted

Just a super quick post to note that I’ve published a full unboxing of the COROS VERTIX 2, but more notably a complete user interface tour. In the video I walk through all the pieces of the watch from a | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

COROS VERTIX 2 In-Depth Review–With Maps and Music

It’s been just shy of a year since COROS’s last new model hardware release, the Pace 2. And while we’ve seen the many software updates over the last year, it appears their hardware team has been well fueled with Mountain | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Strava Adds Major New Privacy Zone Features, Plus More Privacy & Map Options

Today Strava announced two sets of privacy-focused changes, arguably the biggest shift the platform has done in years with respect to user privacy. These new features allow you to significantly change what others can see about your activities, including everything | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Samsung Outlines Galaxy Watch4: First New Google WearOS Watch–Full Details

Today, Samsung announced their Galaxy Watch 4, which is the first watch to utilize the new Google + Samsung variant of Wear OS. This new operating system (or, slightly rebranded one) allows access to the Google Play store, while Samsung | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Garmin Adds New ‘Adventure Race’ Activity Profile: An Explainer

While scanning through the list of beta firmware updates that posted this week, I noticed a curious addition – a new ‘Adventure Race’ activity profile designed for races that prohibit GPS navigation during the race. Meaning that some races require | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Week in Review–August 8th, 2021

The Week in Review is a collection of both all the goodness I’ve written during the past week around the internet, as well as a small pile of links I found interesting – generally endurance sports related. I’ve often wondered | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Tech Tidbit: Wahoo RIVAL Chirps Happy Birthday To You

While it’s been quiet the last week on the site, that’s largely because I’ve been on vacation. Or at least, vacation from posting (while on vacation). And while I had grand plans for many pre-planned posts, those never entirely materialized. | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago

Elite RIZER In-Depth Review: Incline & Steering Simulation Accessory For Any Trainer

The simplest way to explain the new Elite RIZER is that they merged a Wahoo CLIMB with an Elite Sterzo Smart, marrying both the steering aspects of the Sterzo Smart with the up and down functionality of the Wahoo CLIMB. | Continue reading


@dcrainmaker.com | 3 years ago