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Maybe jinxed mine!?
Saturday (got roasted sat in the sun and drank far too much - proper blowout with some clubmates to celebrate club captains birthday and VE day) I found my Whoop had disconnected middle of the afternoon. Didn't discover until Monday morning (OK, I was very hungover!). As I'd also dinked my phone screen and been messing with BT headphones I figured I'd just disconnected/unpaired it. Or it had overheated in the sun. Couldn't get it to pick up again until I charged it. It caught back up and wasn't missing any data, so hadn't run totally flat. Thursday noticed the same - it had disconnected at some point on Tuesday overnight. Charging didn't make a difference had to go through the re-pairing routine. It's all caught up and missing no data... Logging ticket with Whoop as might be the beginning of the end for it, can probably manage a few weeks/a month like this if the 5.0 isn't further away!
Screw that - if I'm going out naked I wouldn't have music on! I only ride indoors with it on anyway... Most of my longer riders outdoors tend to be with groups/clubs/friends so very little long solo stuff where I'd want to be zoned out on music rather than enjoying the scenery/peace and quiet/speed on the flats!
I'd say data visibility/access and my head unit are more important to me than music or being unplugged. But I'm quite good at 'riding by feel' and just ignoring things when I don't want them anyway. Even on Zwift I can 'enjoy the ride' without needing much distraction.
Pretty much same to be. Do you use the 'wake up' alarm thing where it's meant to vibrate or whatever it does to wake you? I don't so can't blame it. I figured just the tightness, or looseness meaning it irritated the skin/muscle rather than the optical sensor itself?!I used to wear mine solely on my right wrist as wear a watch on the left. I thought the same, honestly thought I was giving myself arthritis from a wet band, particularly in the winter. One of the reasons I stopped using it. The right hand is also my mouse hand and the type of work I do / software I use is heavily mouse dependant so it may have been due to that a bit. I don't work as much now or wear a whoop so never figured it out
I like the look of the Whoop sport flex bands and from what I have read don't hold the damp like the default band. Expensive though. Ali Express and Temu do fake ones for a tenth of the price that will be worth a gamble.
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@Roady - I need constant stimulation 
It drives my partner nuts that I always need something playing. Tidying up? Gardening? Cooking? In the shower? I always have something playing be it music or a youtube video. Only time I don't is the pre-work shower at 6am but that's cause I don't want to wake anyone else up.
It drives my partner nuts that I always need something playing. Tidying up? Gardening? Cooking? In the shower? I always have something playing be it music or a youtube video. Only time I don't is the pre-work shower at 6am but that's cause I don't want to wake anyone else up.
I would think that's the last thing you want if you're wearing nothing but a watch and headphones...@Roady - I need constant stimulation
Well, we do have frequent naked rides in Bristol
Oh for sure, sat at home nearly always have the radio on... The dog listens to a lot of Radio 1, so it can feel strange to get home and turn it off (we put it on when young so he had some background noise while we where at work, he's nearly 13 and getting deaf so maybe it was too loud?! Haha). Usually radio only goes off when the TV is on... Sometimes the silence is 'loud' at home when we sit down to eat after all the hustle and bustle of returning/cooking, so it'll get turned on then too!@Roady - I need constant stimulation
It drives my partner nuts that I always need something playing. Tidying up? Gardening? Cooking? In the shower? I always have something playing be it music or a youtube video. Only time I don't is the pre-work shower at 6am but that's cause I don't want to wake anyone else up.
Washing up, housework and DIY stuffs I'll be listening to stream things - got back into Hardstyle (showing my rave roots) when doing some Zwift group rides and nearly always listening to Da Tweekaz as just good humour and fun interspaced with a wide range of hard music and long casts/shows so no fiddling with skipping or choice with very little adverts (not a YT Premium). Some racing but more often then I'm on Discord Voice with teammates/friends.
Not judging but really the almost-scary miniscule size my little guy gets when riding it's the last place I'd want to expose myself
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@Roady - I need constant stimulation
It drives my partner nuts that I always need something playing. Tidying up? Gardening? Cooking? In the shower? I always have something playing be it music or a youtube video. Only time I don't is the pre-work shower at 6am but that's cause I don't want to wake anyone else up.
Oh god, you're like my partner. Put her in an empty room for 5 minutes with her own thoughts and she would genuinely go nuts. If she is doing something that will take 5 minutes, she would take 10 minutes to find her headphones rather that do it without so sort of noise.
No, never used the alarm on it. Have worn it for prolonged periods in much warmer parts of the world than your little patch of England and it’s been fine so doubt the sun has killed it. Coincidental I’d expect.Maybe jinxed mine!?
Saturday (got roasted sat in the sun and drank far too much - proper blowout with some clubmates to celebrate club captains birthday and VE day) I found my Whoop had disconnected middle of the afternoon. Didn't discover until Monday morning (OK, I was very hungover!). As I'd also dinked my phone screen and been messing with BT headphones I figured I'd just disconnected/unpaired it. Or it had overheated in the sun. Couldn't get it to pick up again until I charged it. It caught back up and wasn't missing any data, so hadn't run totally flat. Thursday noticed the same - it had disconnected at some point on Tuesday overnight. Charging didn't make a difference had to go through the re-pairing routine. It's all caught up and missing no data... Logging ticket with Whoop as might be the beginning of the end for it, can probably manage a few weeks/a month like this if the 5.0 isn't further away!
Screw that - if I'm going out naked I wouldn't have music on! I only ride indoors with it on anyway... Most of my longer riders outdoors tend to be with groups/clubs/friends so very little long solo stuff where I'd want to be zoned out on music rather than enjoying the scenery/peace and quiet/speed on the flats!
I'd say data visibility/access and my head unit are more important to me than music or being unplugged. But I'm quite good at 'riding by feel' and just ignoring things when I don't want them anyway. Even on Zwift I can 'enjoy the ride' without needing much distraction.
Pretty much same to be. Do you use the 'wake up' alarm thing where it's meant to vibrate or whatever it does to wake you? I don't so can't blame it. I figured just the tightness, or looseness meaning it irritated the skin/muscle rather than the optical sensor itself?!
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Went for my first decent ride since about August today. A hilly 80km or so in Kent with about 1500m elevation. Fantastic day for it, and had a whale of a time, but absolutely broken now! Need to get some miles back into the legs.
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I did the Chartridge century ride again yesterday. It felt that I hadn’t made much progress since last year, but bought me moving time down from 6:45 to 6:10 and total time from 7:25 to 6:40. The average power only went up 21 watts, but felt far more confident on the bike particularly downhill. Also used the drops for windy/fast sections and able to relax and chat during the ride. I won’t be able to ride often, but it does make me think i should find a local club for group riding.
Just back from another weekend down near the New Forest. I think it's one of my favourite areas to cycle in. We got very lucky with the weather again.
Yeah, when the trees have all their leaves, the weather isn't too hot and its dappled sunlight coming through the canopy its absolutely stunning. This is why we cycle outside.
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Makes seeing potholes an absolute pain though! (the dappled sunlight). But yesterday was lovely, and much warmer than Saturday!
Yeah, it does. I was out with a few mates yesterday and calling out potholes and picking lines for the group makes you realise just how bad it is for long stretches of our roads. We didn't see an ounce of sun yesterday until about 5pm when the ride was long over which was a shame.