After our warm up the day before, I planned a longer bike ride today, up to 1′580 meters above see level.
And I had as usual my favorite gadget with me. The Suunto X9i, the world’s smallest outdoor wrist computer with GPS. A brilliant piece of equipment for cycling and mountain biking, if you like it to be small. There are other cycle computers with GPS but the are all bigger.
Beside the GPS, the X9i has the following features: altimeter, barometer, compass, watch (stopwatch, alarm, etc), water resistant up to 100 m, rechargeable battery via USB cable.
But one of the best things is, that you can explore the tours you did in Google earth (on my opinion the best Google tool). Below is an example of my today’s tour. The Suunto X9i captures a geographical point every minute and that’s how the tour is built in Google earth afterwards.
The next screen shot shows the tour in the software provided by Suunto.
That’s how I keep track of all my tours throughout the year without having to write a complicated training log book.
Are you using any other brilliant gadgets? Let me know.