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More photos from our special summer…

Counting the shells

Mummy looking beautiful

3 generations

Mummy and Miaya making the shape of the rock

Miaya deciding if she should have gone for chocolate over strawberry

Granny Nanny & Miaya

Family having a paddle

4 generations

Miaya saw a doggy

Enjoying the morning sun

Grandad showing Miaya the trampoline

Beautiful Mummy AGAIN

Walking back for snacks

Figuring out the perfect ratio to sand and water

Making the most of a British summer

Showing Miaya the epics waves

Getting use to seaweed with granny

Making our first sandcastles

Looking for shells with mummy

Always smiling with mummy

Beautiful mummy

Finding our shadows

Looking at how the waves form in sets

Looking for more fish

Family in a dingy

Mummy the pro paddle boarder

Summer days with the girls

Most wearables are good at telling you when your HRV is going up or down. Which in my opinion is good for what we use HRV for BUT they are less reliable at telling you the actual number.

An accurate number matters because HRV is a direct readout of your vagus nerve, the nerve that calms your heart and body after stress, and it’s the same signal doctors use to catch early autonomic problems before they show up elsewhere.

A new study found there is a way to easily test your HRV in an accurate way. They tested 43 healthy adults with chest strap and hospital grade ECG at the same time, then went through paced deep breathing and a standing test, on top of just lying still.

The chest strap matched closely to ECG. Agreement came in above 0.99, essentially a perfect match, and the error stayed under 1 percent even during the harder tests.

Most wearables work fine for watching your own trend over time. If you want an accurate number though, a chest strap like the polar H10 holds up well against hospital ECG.

First half of the season done, nice to be back in the points this year. Looking forward to a bit of a break and then hopefully more to come for the busy second half.

Which wearable actually measures your heart rate right while you sleep?

A 2025 study tested five consumer wearables, the Oura Ring Generation 3, Oura Ring Generation 4, WHOOP 4.0, Garmin Fenix 6, and a Polar smartwatch (Grit X Pro), against a gold standard reference.

That reference was a Polar H10 chest strap, worn as a consumers ECG. Thirteen healthy adults wore the devices simultaneously overnight, generating 536 nights of data in total.

For resting heart rate, both Oura devices led, followed by WHOOP, then the Polar watch. Garmin was excluded from this part of the analysis entirely, not because of missing data, but because the study authors identified methodological inconsistencies in how the device reported the metric, a finding in its own right.

For heart rate variability, the gap widened. Oura Generation 4 and Generation 3 showed the strongest agreement with the ECG reference, WHOOP showed genuinely reasonable agreement, and the Garmin and Polar watches showed the weakest agreement of the group.

Please note that the Polar device that performed weakest was a wrist worn smartwatch using light based sensing. The Polar H10 chest strap is a different tool entirely, and in this study it served as the reference standard itself, which reflects how well it performs when checked against true ECG.

Home race 2026 ✅ another point on the board

Home race weekend…

Not what we hoped for in Austria but hoping for some better fortune on home soil 🇬🇧

Going to be another warm one!

A crazy week with the Monaco podium being reinstated to an eventful race in Barcelona. More points in the bag and the streak continues . A solid effort from turning things around across the weekend

Awesome to see back on the top step