Troy Angrignon

Adventure

Las Vegas & San Diego Aug 2018

Some work in Las Vegas followed by some play in San Diego On to Encinitas! Top of Hooyah Hill! Memories!

Overlanding

Trip through the Mojave to Overland Expo 2018

Great trip with some amazing scenery and no people! And then some excellent training at Overland Expo. Video is here: Photos are below: Learning better driving skills from the 7P team Learning how to patch tires with Jonathan Hanson, founder of Overland Expo. Learning winchless recoveries with Nick Taylor from

Dogs

RIP Braun April 2018

Braun you were a great dog and a funny old man. I'll miss your crazy faces. Thanks for all the beach workouts buddy.

Dogs

Dogsitting day!

Dog-sitting our friend's awesome lab.

Travel

Palm Springs March 2018

Some interesting photo opportunities in Palm Springs while we were visiting friends. I do not know the artist's name but this series was incredible. I hope to find it again.

Adventure

Death Valley Dec 2017

Death Valley is truly one of my favorite places in the world. Photos below Flat tire!After getting the flat, we headed for Beatty, Nevada to get the tire fixed so that we would not be in trouble if we got ANOTHER flat. Beatty Nevada is...quaint. The Christmas decorations

Overlanding

4WD training at the Carmel Land Rover Experience Nov 2017

It has been said by more than a few of my favorite 4WD gurus (I'm thinking that I've heard this from Jonathan Hanson, Andrew St, Pierre White, Tom Shepard and Paul Marsh?)  that the first and best upgrade to any 4WD is the owner learning how

Fitness

Mountain Tactical Advanced Programming Certification May 2017

I was fortunate to be able to spend a few days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with Rob Shaul over at the Mtn Tactical Institute [www.mtntactical.com]. Fantastic lessons and training.

Overlanding

Vehicle 1: 2017 Subaru Forester XT

I have always loved Subaru vehicles. They're reliable and they go anywhere. Against the better judgement of people who know more about 4WD than I did at the time, I bought a 2017 Forester XT and outfitted it for overland travel. Overall, it was great on the highway

Fitness

SEALFit Kokoro 37 June 2015

The best 60 hours without sleep that you can possibly have.

Technology

Map of Apple Watch fitness apps and data

You have your Apple Watch and/or activity tracker or sportwatch and  now you want to know how to connect all those apps that are piling up on your watch and phone. Here is the beginning of a map that shows everything as follows: * Heart rate sensors on the left

Technology

Comstock Magazine article on wearables

[http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2015-03-11-22.47.46.png] Comstock’s Magazine in Sacramento has just published an article on 2015 being the year of the wearables [http://www.comstocksmag.com/longreads/dress-success?utm_campaign=Are%20you%20ready%20for%20the%20wearable%20tech%20invasion?&utm_medium=email&

Technology

CES 2015 Report on Wearables

At the beginning of January, I attended CES 2015 [http://www.cnet.com/news/ces-2015-the-final-word/]in Las Vegas to see what patterns were emerging in consumer technology, specifically in the arenas of health, fitness, wellness, and and consumer medical. It’s taken a month or so to digest what I

Technology

Wearable tech decision tree

Here it is, the simplest decision tree I can build for choosing your wearable sleep, activity, fitness, or sport tracking device(s). I’ll modify it as I get more inputs. 1. decide what you want to track, sleep or activity? (if both, follow both) 2. if they match, then

Wearables

OMSignal smart shirts make me doubt the smart clothing market

I ordered my OMSignal shirt from the crowd-funding launch page back in May 2014. 8 months and 50 “exciting updates from the founders” later, I received it. Last week, I tested it on a hard workout at my gym and within about 10 minutes I was ready to call the

Fitness

Comparing FitBit SurgeHR and Garmin 920XT

Today I’m comparing the new FitBit Surge HR [https://www.fitbit.com/surge] fitness watch with the Garmin 920 XT [http://forerunner920.garmin.com/en-US] sport watch. I ran them through two very different tests so that I could compare the data quality and the user interface presented from

Product Management

Wearable customer segmentation: Using maturity level for nuanced customer analysis

C [http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2015-01-24-18.36.14.png] ustomer Maturity Model It’s not really possible to do good, quality market analysis in the wearable space (or perhaps any space) without taking into account both user-type (which really defines the use case) and also something I

Fitness

The best smartwatch or fitness band in Q1 2015

Here is a grid that will help you choose the best smartwatch or fitness band no matter what kind of athlete you are. I’ve included only the best and left the rest off. There are a lot of tools not worth using. These are some, if not all, of

Product Review

The Best Heart Rate Strap : Comparing Scosche Rhythm+, Mio Link, 4iiiii Viiiiiva, Wahoo KickrX

I do a ton of sports tech testing. Some days it feels like I’m on a never-ending search to find the best heart rate strap. I’ve tested them all. However, straps are boring to video record so this will just be a text-based blog post. In short, here

Sleep

Comparing Sleep Trackers: Jawbone Up24, Basis Peak, S+ by ResMed, Sleeprate, Garmin 920XT, Fitbit

In this video (at the bottom of this post), I compare sleep trackers to see which ones function best. THE CANDIDATES (and their sensors) * Jawbone Up24 (3d accelerometer) * Basis Peak (continuous heart rate, skin temperature, perspiration, 3d accelerometer) * S+ by ResMed (movement as read by the echo-location of low-power signals

Fitness

A weekend with Dan John and Chip Conrad at Mental Meat Heads 7

What a great weekend.  I just returned from two days up in Sacramento at Agoge Ftness System’s “Mental Meat Heads 7 [http://agogefit.com/mental-meat-heads-7-dan-john/]” event.  I had the opportunity to learn from two of my favorite people in the fitness industry: Dan John [http://danjohn.net/], and Chip

Technology

How Apple Watch will create new winners and losers in the wearables ecosystem

Apple released news about their new Apple Watch today and overall I have to say I’m fairly impressed. In the smart watch category, there are a couple of key things that have to be handled in order to secure a large total addressable market and these have been major

Market Map

Market Map: Health and Sports Apps and Devices

A first attempt to provide a simplified look at the devices and apps market by looking at the wireless protocols across the X (time) axis and depth / complexity of feature set on the Y axis. Let me know if you think this works…or doesn’t. I’m not convinced

Fitness

Building a map of sensors, devices, apps, displays, protocols, agents, and end-points. (phew!)

As many of you know, I’ve been looking a lot lately at the sport tech wearables space. It’s amazing how complicated it is. I was experimenting with a way of modeling it out so that people can see what I mean. Not sure this is the right way

Technology

The traditional GPS sport watch ecosystem is too slow-moving and will be disrupted by the apps market

I’ve been testing old world vs. new world lately in GPS watches vs. applications. It’s interesting to see the generation gaps. In short, the iPhone (mostly the iPhone and not Android because it was further ahead and simpler to code for when using Bluetooth LE – a derivative subset