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dubious result last as fitbit made me run about 150m further than the last 3 weeks on the same route... fk you fitbit..

not going by the online communities i was reading last night... one guy ran a 10km road race that fitbit said was 8.7km.. another guy ran nike+ simultaneously with fitbit on a known route and there was almost 2km of variance in fitbit over 3 runs where strava was about 20m..

luckily im only using the app, havnt purchased a wearable yet, so a i think ill be avoiding the fitbits!

update... from searching and reading some of the fitbit community forums, the gps tracking is crap. some people have reported it losing kilometers off their run... one guy did a 10k fun run event that his fitbit tracked as only being 8.7km. another guy ran the same route 3times with 2 apps running - samsung health and fitbit. samsung health varied about +/- .06km. fit bit lost almost 1km from 1st 2nd run, and another 1km on his 3rd run... so, fitbit seems to be crap. going to try strava instead..

i had a jelly comb bluetooth thingy in my insignia that plugged into the aux port. could do calls, and stream music to the headunit. it about 40-50mm diameter, round single button job. worked fine, layout of the cabin in the in****nia (where the aux port and 12v sockets are) meant i couldnt really hide the cables as much as i wouldve wanted. and night driving the little blue light flashing was a tad distracting unless i put it on the side of the centre console, so thats where it lived. audio quality was good, but due to where i had to put it, i did have to shout a bit during conversations to be heard. edit... i got it on amazon, i just checked and its not currently available. but it cost 15quid sterling, plus postage, so your not going to spend a fortune trying something out.

im using fit bit app for trackin my runs the last few weeks. and its great, except... the last 2 runs ive done, just now and Wed morning, its not so great. its making run nearly 200m farther to cover my 5k, on the exact same route ive been runing for 3 weeks. and whats sickening is that both runs wouldve been under my target time if the finish point was in the same place as previously! anybody else use it and have the same problem?

could be the alternator starting to go? when was the auxillary belt (alternator etc) and tensioner done?

oh yeah, bonus .. apple tree spud sr planted a few weeks ago in the park i go through on my route. i can see it in the morning light now, and i remembered to take snap on my way through today

this morning, 655am start... annoyed, as im not sure its correct.. i ws passing my end point at 24m56 but.... fit bit app didnt go to 5km for another 100m!

right, i cant run at night. i dont sleep. dont even feel tired until after 1am. and when small people have a habit of waking you around 630am and you dont even have caffeine to keep you going... its just unpleasant and makes me narky. so its gonna just have to be mornings, and hope swmbo gets used to me sneaking out and can go back asleep. anyway, 15 Oct, second fastest all time at 25m 18secs. ended up missing a run due to the floor removal weekend.. 19th oct. 21st oct. this one was hard for some reason. 24th Oct, back to mornings.. and today 26th oct im happily keeping under 26mins, and i know i can crack 25. todays headwind on the return leg definitely cost me time.

i think you should get the bumper chairs. they are so unnecessary they are epic.

contact a local scrote who will open it faster and doing less damage than a locksmith?? probably cheaper too...

at least they were equal though.. ive thought about it... and i guarantee they are those 1 in 599,999 who will have low oil thats 5yr old, tap water in the coolant, and never done the timing belt but the engine will never miss a beat 🙄

i didnt even let myself think about that...

for some it is, others dont care or noticed. i was doing my tyres pressures one evening, put my 1euro in and had mine done with 3mins air going spare. a woman was fetting into tmher car along side me and i asked did she want to check hers since its was wasting money. she said thanks. it was a gen 1 focus saloon. the tyre pressures were horrendously awful. one front was 12psi, the other 25. backs were just as bad... she and her husband were oblivious...

got a call back from the consultant this evening. hes fully booked until early December but is hoping to make extra space - he runs 3 clinics. seems theres been an abnormal increase in enquiries!

its true. if you take the number plate off a newish A4 or A5, the grill is probably as big the m4, its the way its split vertically makes it look strange.

utterly off topic but the best boots by far i have ever owned were Meindl Islander Pros. they lasted 9yrs, i never had wet or cold feet wearing them including 2 winters in aberdeen... they were chucked when the sole peeled off one of them after 5 hrs or paintballing on my stag weekend. i wrapped the lace around it to tie it back up and soldiered on another 90mins before we finished up.

as above, theres a joint in the pipe right under the changer.

one of our plant hire contractors recently purchased and has modified 3 unimogs to be rail mounted. along with a series of 3 way tiltable rail trailer for bringing large quantities of ballast to site when required. 2 of the Mogs have individual towing capacities of (im told by one of operators) 800Tonnes in rail mode. and they can be driven by remote control from outside the cab

swmbohas had enough doen below the last few yrs, and more planbed already, so being able to skip one trauma (tube tying) is at least one easing..

we had a mis carriage before each of our 2's creations, so yeah, pregnancy was incredibly stressy the first time around. second wasnt as bad, but 2 csections, and all the hassle my wife has been through since the second one without a feckin pandemic has been really difficult. its nice to hear from some people who have made the decision too helps reinforce the belief its the right thing.

ones enough 😂 it is reversible, but i dont envisage rhat happening

its the health hib, this is a health question. As some may know, following the arrival of Spud jr in Feb (feels like a couple of weeks but a different timeline ago!) my wife has been through a medical **** storm that still isnt fully resolved. we made the very real decision during the worst of it in March that we cannot have another pregnancy, as the thoughts and fears of repeating the events of thos first 2months is traumatising. straight up as a result of this decision, along with the being knackered from young baby and ongoing symptomatic fallout my wife suffered, and our own paranoias about potential pregnancy have led to our sex life being pretty non existent - letting the fears get in the away of anything else and worrying about failure rates of contraceptive methods... so, i have rung a clinic to enquire about getting a vasectomy. no needle anesthetic and keyhole entry, very short recovery time of a couole of days and costs less than than 500quid. has anyone else had this done? what are the feelings about it post event?

hi, i stand to be correct3e, but i dont the Superb seats will fit? pretty sure they have different mounting points for the guide rails onto the chassis.