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
After 6 years, the next GoPro MAX model is finally out, the GoPro MAX 2. This unit is basically an entire overhaul of the GoPro MAX, with upgraded everything. From new sensors giving a full 8K of usable footage, … Read More Here → | Continue reading
This is more of a YouTube video than a post, but I figured I'd at least mention it over here. In this video I dive into the mess that is the DJI Mini 5 Pro. Or at least, the … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Amidst Garmin’s rush of new watch products yesterday (even including super-interesting new Oakley Meta Vanguard AI glasses integration), there were also two new features that launched for all Garmin users, regardless of which watch you have. There is no … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Garmin has just announced their Venu 4 & Venu 4S watches, which are their mainstream but sportier competitors to the Apple Watch, Google Pixel, and Samsung Galaxy Watch. And at first glance, based on the relatively thin marketing materials, … Read More Here → | Continue reading
If you had ‘Garmin makes another Crossover watch’ on a list for the year, it certainly wasn’t on my bingo card. I say that not because it isn’t cool (I think it is), but because it was the watch … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Every time I start one of these comparisons it seems entirely innocent and doable, and then I find myself with some 50+ differences later, triple-checking every stat and nuanced feature. Yet here again, I find myself comparing Apple’s top … Read More Here → | Continue reading
When Apple surprises me, it doesn’t tend to be some flashy feature that blows the rest of the world away. Instead, it tends to be them doing something slightly out of their usual swim lane, or their norms. For example, … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Apple has secretly included a nice feature for endurance athletes in iOS 26: The ability to create full structured workouts. Now what’s interesting about this is the fact that it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in Apple’s keynote or elsewhere. I … Read More Here → | Continue reading
Amidst the launch of Garmin’s new Edge 550 & Edge 850 cycling GPS units, there’s one detail that went slightly unnoticed. Or at least, unmentioned: It actually features a user-replaceable battery. Or more specifically, user serviceable battery. This allows … Read More Here → | Continue reading