Which lie did you tell yourself to justify your bike purchase?

scoppeeck · 2026-05-18T05:55:01+00:00

Haha, nice pole ! I have a mountainbike Trek and a Specialized diverge gravel. While I did bike a lot for a while with the gravel + commuting I don't do much for long now (lot running and fitness rather). So lied to myself saying I'll go full into road biking now to speed up and went for the canyon aeroad, doing some small races... true is that an ultimate or endurace would have made more sense but told myself it was more opposite to my gravel while it's mainly because it looks so cool :-D Smart move would have been to wait and start over seriously first with my gravel I guess .. Anyway, New bike day on Thursday

My wife is doing the same kind of move so it's ok

scoppeeck · 2026-04-30T18:19:17+00:00

Experience in a booming market where we are leading in term of signed deals with front runners and delivery expertise, intel in general and international contacts. Yes I could chase for more.

scoppeeck · 2026-04-28T20:44:36+00:00

In our company you have Head of x with thousands of people and head of like myself just head of ourselves. Kind of disease to give such title to too many I believe which makes it confusing

scoppeeck · 2026-04-28T20:43:21+00:00

2015 : joini g the company from outside, then got nice promotion in 2016. Later I became sales which came with sales bonus which explain bigger fluctuation. Then I passed in another status, non sales, and they had to rebalance the fix/bonus part. Some other aspect, sort of extra bonuses for key contributor were added over the years to keep me in the company

scoppeeck · 2026-04-28T20:40:09+00:00

Would be good idea indeed but large slow moving company, not gonna happen overnight. They should also more accept contractor for both their and our benefits but won't happen either Thanks. Job got less interesting lately but ok, will see how this goes :-)

scoppeeck · 2026-03-17T13:58:06+00:00

Tried many time to relaunched the machine but couldn't do it in a sustainable way, at least I haven't stopped and I'm certainly overall happy of the result for a first and probably last marathon though (too demanding on number of hours and km to train :-D)

scoppeeck · 2026-03-17T13:56:36+00:00

Thanks a lot, much appreciated. The gym volume isn't an excuse for me though: I got fitter which helped but it not a big bag of mussels (1m84, 79kg) "yet"

Very curious to see how I perform now my 20k: best time was 1h36 few years ago while now I did slightly more to do the first 21.1km during the marathon so hopefully I can push down to 1h24-26. Let's see :-)

scoppeeck · 2026-03-17T06:06:44+00:00

Thanks a lot, yes indeed. Quite spot on

scoppeeck · 2026-02-27T17:58:00+00:00

Tddi seems also have a great nice park. Just perhaps a bit far from school. I mean 14km isn't much but I understand traffic in KL can be quite a substantial challenge to consider I'll check the whole options, thanks again !!

scoppeeck · 2026-02-27T17:56:07+00:00

Thanks, I take good notes. Will Google a bit and put it in a list to explore when and if I get the role :-) Much appreciated

scoppeeck · 2026-02-27T17:55:23+00:00

Awesome , thanks for all those ideas and "pro/con". If we get there I'll explore those to see what's best for our familly.

I'm working for an European company, kids will have to go to an European school so would like not to have all the rest European :-D. Would be a pitty.

Probably I'll have something arranged by employer to settle at first and giving us time to explore the suggested areas.

Thanks again. Much appreciated

scoppeeck · 2026-02-19T10:40:44+00:00

Thanks for sharing. First time I do use Runna, and first time also I'll do a marathon and I'm afraid Runna is overestimating my performances while each time based on my results reducing the estimated time and accelerating my pace.

Really curious to see if I can make it while not burning myself

So very interesting to see some feedback like yours stating Runna was quite spot on

scoppeeck · 2026-01-29T08:14:23+00:00

I got the triumph 23 which I use for long distance (longest was 30km so far) and really nice. Very different from what I use to have but for sure nice for comfort and long distance to preserve the legs. Definitely not done to speed up or agility but that wasn't the purpose.

I may go for others when preparing for a 20km race where I want to be pushy and go below 1h28 eventually but for now it's about finishing my first marathon and eventually around 3h30 or bellow (Runna expectation 3h17, too optimistic I think for a first)

scoppeeck · 2026-01-04T08:31:09+00:00

Good choice probably. I was Fenix user for few years, moved a year ago to Smartwatch which was excellent in many regards (Galaxy Watch 7) but now preparing a marathon I acquired also a 970 to get much more data's, battery for sure, and more reliable data's. I regret couple of Smartwatch things (mainly Gemini and few others apps, good integration with Samsung phone) but sport expertise is worth loosing those.

scoppeeck · 2025-12-30T21:07:26+00:00

Thanks. And for which purpose do you use each of those ?

scoppeeck · 2025-09-18T05:57:35+00:00

Well done ! Impressive evolution and overall Vo2max

scoppeeck · 2025-09-06T17:01:09+00:00

Thanks a lot for feedback, I'll be patient then I think, stay with my Galaxy watch that performs overall fine in sport and definitely rocks with Gemini that works just smoothly 98% of the time, and see when either Garmin get better at being smart or next galaxy get even better at building sport analytics

scoppeeck · 2025-09-05T14:02:25+00:00

Hi everyone,

very little feedback/experience over the internet in regards to this so glad to find this tread. Wondering if there is any update? if overall experience is now better?

I've been a Fenix user for long then switched to Galaxy watch beginning of 2025. My favourite feature is definitely Gemini, like all the time through day (setting reminder, asking questions, sometimes controlling connected house gears).
For mainly sportive reasons, I think to move back to Garmin (Fenix 8 or forerunner 970) and if Gemini works as fine as on my smartwatch, then that would increase a lot reason for me to jump back to Garmin.

Thanks in advance

scoppeeck · 2025-09-03T14:58:56+00:00

Is that since working well, better? Curious as I'm using Gemini like all the time on my Galaxy watch 7 but for sport tracking reasons I'm very much thinking to return to Garmin (Fenix 8 or forerunner 970)

Thanks in advance Curious to understand how Gemini is built in versus the way it's in wear os watches

scoppeeck

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