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Three months and the new Suunto app is still not integrated. I'm going to have a lot of board plays come 2023 when they finally fix it...

From this article, it looks like Cav moving to Bahrain-Merida is almost certain: https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mark-cavendish-edging-closer-to-bahrain-mclaren-for-2020/

Can you stretch your budget a bit and go for a kit with the 3400G (4 Core, 8 thread, versus 4/4 on the 3200G)? For example: https://www.evetech.co.za/amd-ryzen-5-3400g-tuf-b450-plus-16gb-ddr4-upgrade-kit/best-deal/6380.aspx Ideally though, something with the 3600, since you plan on buying a separate GPU anyway. 6 core, 12 thread, based on the newer design than the 3200G or 3400G. https://www.evetech.co.za/amd-ryzen-5-3600-tuf-b450-plus-16gb-ddr4-upgrade-kit/best-deal/6336.aspx

Well, from my little experience from Crossfit, the Olympic weightlifting takes plenty of skill, speed and agility to get underneath a bar with stupid heavy weight, along with the strength of course. Which is why most people can't go heavy with the snatch lift, compared to the deadlift which is mostly just strength.

On the main screen, with the Portfolio and Shortcuts tabs, click on the "Health" block. On the next screen, scroll down and look for Devices and apps, under the Get active heading

I doubt anyone knows, even Discovery... The number of open issues on their help page is growing much faster than the resolved issues: https://www.discovery.co.za/portal/vitality/help My Suunto can sync with Movescount, but since I only bought it recently, and I am not going to register yet another account that might or might not stop working at some undefined point in time, I've given up for the time being.

Based on a true story, as well.

We babysat a Beagle puppy during working hours (we both worked from home at the time) for a few weeks, somewhere last year. Too much energy, too smart, too naughty.... We found her on the dining room table once, on her way to the kitchen counter where we prepare food. All the chairs were pushed in, so she had to have climbed on something else first, to jump over to the table... I love her, but I don't miss her...

The switch from Movescount has now been postponed until next week, according to a reply to a comment on Facebook: (Why is the "lets keep quiet and hope no-one notices" communication strategy considered acceptable?!) I'm not going to bother registering on Movescount for 4 days. So unless they've also messed up deactivating the Tomtom link, I will just not be meeting my Active Rewards goal this week. Luckily I have no boosters active, so doesn't bother me much.

I contacted Suunto about this last week, seems like Discovery needs to enable the new integration. So, I guess it is a wait and see. Frustrating, as my Tomtom's integration also ends tomorrow.

When I saw it, there were still 6. Now I too shall have a bike bag collecting dust! Muhah...hah?

Scicon bike bag for less than R3000: https://www.takealot.com/scicon-aerocomfort-road-3-0-tsa-bike-travel-bag-109cm/PLID49443486

The Xiaomi Mi TV Box S is slightly cheaper currently at Incredible: https://www.incredible.co.za/xiaomi-mi-tv-box-s

Small issue - I've updated an activity with a higher threshold, but when I close the intervals.icu tab, and reopen, the Power graph for the activity looks like it is still based on the default 8%. But the value at the bottom shows the updated value, for example 20%. If I edit it again, and just select OK without changing the number, the graph updates correctly

Below is my data from a hillclimb event a month ago, not even 4 minutes but super hard. I think the culling is a bit extreme here Do I adjust the detection interval or the FTP for the ride here? Power data is from my P1 pedals here. Another one was a workout on Zwift, mostly steady over-unders. Afterwards, I still felt ok so I did a few max sprints (zoomed in on that bit below). Power for it is from my trainer, which is known to overshoot a bit on such short sprints. But the first two sprints especially have been chopped very low?

I knew they left the market, and I saw the communication from Discovery earlier this year that new connections to Tomtom devices would no longer be possible. I had also assumed there would come a time when they would stop supporting the devices entirely, though less than a month notice is not ideal but so be it. Perhaps I just missed a previous communication about the discontinuation date, or something from Tomtom saying their MySports app and site would stop working on this date, prepare yourself. I guess its a "YMMV" situation? I don't think I've had any problems with the watch itself in the more than two years I've had it. Issues with the app, issues with various phones' bluetooth, sure. My watch is my second device, just for syncing activities to Vitality. In this case, even the "Atos" has more features than I need. My wife's garmin is only a few months older, is less easy to use, and doesn't even support different sports. Edit: Garmin's Biggest Competitor Is Their Own Software Instability Anyway, I've got a month to decide between the various Garmin, Suunto, Polar or Huawei watches. At least the number of good options have increased in the last few years.

So, for anyone else still using a perfectly functioning TomTom watch to earn their Vitality points, I just got a mail with the following: Guess now is a good time to start investigating the Device booster... just annoying to have to spend money replacing the watch that still works perfectly.

Entirely likely I was able to give a little bit extra for the last km yesterday, which I should probably not be able to do if I was going flat-out. Not sure I could have sustained that effort for the whole distance, but that could also just be a mental thing. The next two events are this coming Sunday and the one after that, so perhaps I can judge my effort a bit better for them. David, I'll send you my Strava ID, but don't worry too much about it. In fact, I think I can try to use this to my advantage, and aim for the higher number this Sunday

Hi David I noticed this evening that the power model to estimate FTP has changed, to a combination of Morton's 3P (the default previously?) and FastFitness.Tips - what is the difference? The new default gives me an estimated FTP that is 34W higher than that of Morton's 3P. We had a 30km TT event this morning, where I averaged pretty much exactly the M3P number, albeit for less than an hour, and I could MAYBE have kept around there for another few minutes. So the M3P number seems plausible.... but I very much doubt I could currently do 34W higher for an hour. I think I'll keep my FTP on Zwift as is for now - some of the workouts are difficult enough as is

No, I think still dual-channel: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ryzen-3000-zen-2-cpus-get-jedec-3200-mhz-specification.html

For the price, yes, I think. And as Amberdrake mentioned, with all the Spector etc flaws currently on the Intel CPUs, and the performance impacts of the software fixes (which AMD claims their CPUs are less or not impacted at all)... The rumours are that the next gen Ryzens based on Zen 2 (watch out for the 3X00G ones with onboard GPU, they are a generation behind) will have a good jump in performance again.

Thanks, but I currently have a Radeon R390 8GB My bottleneck is only everything else. Definitely! Their prices have come down quite nicely, the two Mushkin models especially are well-priced. My current OCZ Vector was a huge upgrade from a normal drive, so a NVME M.2 should be veeeery nice!

Well, if the rumours about the Zen 2 Ryzen 3000 series performance are to be believed, they could be great for both gaming and dev/CAD? For example: https://wccftech.com/amd-zen-2-5ghz-12-core-4-3ghz-16-core-cpus-leaked-benchmarked/ Take that with a shovel of salt, of course, but official announcement is Monday? So, we'll know soon enough. I plan on going for the fastest Ryzen 3000 I can afford, decent MB (x570 chipset if I can), decent RAM, and big-ish M.2 SSD (hopefully 1TB, partitioned for Windows, Linux and games). GPU upgrade will have to wait a year or two.