Keeping track
You may be wondering from the previous post, if I’ve stopped counting laps, how do I know how far I can swim? Simple answer, I wear a tracker. The tri tracker of choice in the market is the Garmin. It’s a highly accurate computer you can wear like a watch. It tells you a lot of cool things, like heart rate and splits. It’ll tell you when you’ve shaved 1/100th of a second off your swim. Triathletes training for Ironman use it. Me? I use something else. Why? The Garmin is very expensive and I don’t need such a sophisticated piece of equipment. Also, I have a design dilemma with how it looks (read shoe post). I own a Moov. Launched from Kickstarter, it’s the first of it’s kind. It’s a coaching device. It not only tracks your speed and distance, a nice lady tells you things like “your cadence is too low” or “your impact is too high” thru your earbuds. I would yell back things like “I’m pedaling as fast as I can!!” or “SHUT UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!. I don’t recommend anyone do that. Especially in the gym.
The swim is the only app that doesn’t talk to you. But it does track your distance, speed and stroke style.
They have come up with version 2, the Moov Now, check it out
http://welcome.moov.cc
I have version 1, which is now called Moov Classic. It’s still working well and I prefer its looks over the Now. The good people at Moov are very responsive to feedback. They are currently working on a solve for an indoors brick interval.
