Review – Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music & Garmin Vivoactive 3

    This review will thoroughly cover the Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music and the Garmin Vivoactive 3 fitness smartwatches. For a number of years I have used my venerable Garmin Forerunner 620 for tracking my biking, running, hiking, walking and a number of other exercise- and fitness-related activities.  It was a great…

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Review – Garmin Virb Elite Action Camera

I had been looking for an action camera for awhile, mostly for biking but also for hiking and other activities.  While biking there have been many things that I would have liked to catch on video or photoed over the years that I have missed.  Not to mention the sheer number…

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Garmin Virb Aero-Bar Mount

[dropshadowbox align=”center” effect=”lifted-both” width=”430px” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ] [/dropshadowbox] I received my Garmin Virb Elite (for my full review of the Garmin Virb Elite click here) for Xmas and immediately ordered a bunch of different Go-Pro compatible mounts, for various purposes and which all fit the Virb just fine. In another…

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Review – FitBit Flex

Everyone’s heard of them – activity-trackers.  They are devices that you wear on your wrist or in your pocket or another place on your person and which monitor and track your physical activities – whether it is general movement, steps, stairs, sleep, etc.  If you want to keep a bit…

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A Review of Some Fitness Syncing Sites and a Syncing App

(This review has been updated on 1/25/2018) This review is a companion to my previous posting – A Review of Some Exercise Logging Sites. Okay, so you’re uploading your GPS watch tracking to Runkeeper but want to log some weight-training on Fitocracy and want both sets of data to show up on each…

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A Review of Some Exercise/Fitness Logging Sites

This review will cover a few of the more popular exercise logging and fitness tracking websites, though I’m going to center this review around a few of my favorites and then more briefly touch on some others. This review also goes along with my next blog post – A Review of…

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Been a Long Time, Part II!

Been a Long Time, Part II! I‘m going to echo the first line of my last blog entry – “Yea, it’s been a long time.”   Why?   Well, I guess the blogging craze has dropped out a little, but matured, both in general and for me personally.  There’s still always  been…

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Free Maps of the Whole US for your Garmin, Customized Engraving Company – Warning Blatant Advertisement

Free Maps of the Whole US for your Garmin   If you buy a Garmin eTrex GPS you know that the basemap for roads is, er, a bit questionable in the amount of data department.  Of course – you’re not buying the thing for the roadmaps; are you?   Well,…

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Power Crisis, Wind Power, Updated Garmin Maps, Fort Drum Air Show

Power Crisis, Wind Power Interesting.  For quite sometime I’ve been saying that we’re all dumb. Everyone in the US should have learned from the oil problems of the 70’s (whether we were alive during this time or not), and we should have seen this coming.  We should have been pushing…

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