Thoughts on cycling

Everyone has probably heard somewhere or someone talk about the benefits of cycling, what it does for your body, the environment, but there are some pretty compelling statistics health and environment aside why you should ride your bike more. 

If you have a chance, check out this TedX talk from Dr. Allen Lim who is actually one of the people that I really look up, just the thought process behind why he does stuff is amazing, and I'd be honored to have him as a coach, not even from a personal performance perspective, but just the way he goes about stuff.

But let's look at some crazy things. You bike as a kid, everyone bikes as a kit you lean on a trike, get a bike with training wheels and then some day you get them taken off and chances are you'll probably fall/crash.  You'll do that again when you get a road bike. 

Rant about parking

So here is a completely non-athletic related post, and I'll keep it short.  In Calgary we have that new Park Plus system that replaced the meters and now there are just zones and they're said to add about 20% of space I think is what the City claims.  The only problem is that people don't know how to park in these zones.  If you are the car at the front of the zone, please pull as far as forward as you can, if you're the last one, please park so that your car's tail is at the rear post.  This lets people park in the zone and have the number of cars it was meant to accommodate.  This morning I came upon a car that was parked smack dab in the middle of a two car zone..... and lo and behold you can't park there.  Sure it doesn't help that I drive a long truck, but common guys, learn how to park Calgary...... end rant.

I get the age old adage of function over form....

But I mean if the function is right on track, the form really shouldn't lag behind a whole lot but that doesn't seem to always be the case, I mean companies like Garmin have made some pretty big strides. For example their first triathlon watch was HUGE

I mean common, look at that thing..... it's MASSIVE.  So Garmin went away and came out with an improved version the next go around

But let's be honest here, this thing looks more or less the same, they did improve functionality as well as battery life.  The third time around their engineers actually go the message and they started to slim it down

The new one is on the left so you can see that it's definitely better.  So they're getting better at making a watch people will actually want to wear, because it doesn't really how great a product you have, if it looks like shite no one is going to wear it/use it.  The last go around, they've slimmed it down as much as they can and it actually looks pretty good, much like all of their current generation watches

Old, Newer, Newest.  So Garmin has done a really good job of making something that needs to be big at least reasonable, and the ones that don't need to big (the straight up running ones)

A big thanks to Ray over at DCrainmaker, who I'm pretty sure all of these pictures belong to him, at some point and time probably before someone tampered with the watermarking.

However Polar has just released a new watch this morning and holy crapola it looks AMAZING

Common Garmin why can't you make something with a little bit more red, or even blue if it doesn't fit with your color scheme.  I love black, and I lover silver, but would it kill you guys to put a bit more color into your produce, like make the Garmin lettering blue..... or something. Alright there's my rant, it's done, happy weekend guys.

~Cheers