This can seem to be an oddly timed put up, however, it’ll make sense in a second. Possibly much more sense than my absurdly lengthy title.
Manner again in October, earlier than that total Black Friday & Vacation sale craziness, Polar launched the Polar Grit X Professional GPS watch. A number of days later, Polar and Komoot did a advertising factor the place they gave all house owners of the Polar Grit X or Polar Vantage V2 Collection, a free voucher for a free Komoot area obtain by way of an e-mail you doubtless ignored. Mainly, in case you had a watch that supported Komoot course flip by flip options at the moment, you bought an e-mail. Technically the Grit X Professional after all supported it, however I don’t suppose it was actively transport the identical days the e-mail went out.
Anyhow, assuming you had been a part of the chosen group, you bought an e-mail for a free area code. No funky strings hooked up, simply use the code within the e-mail and you’ll redeem it.
For these not acquainted, the best way Komoot (a navigation and route planning website) works is that for sure features like syncing a path to your watch/gadget or having offline entry in your telephone, you may both purchase a particular area of the world (like a rustic or portion of a rustic), or, you should purchase the entire world for a flat-rate. Being the inefficient individual I’m, I’ve been shopping for particular areas I would like over time, which is demonstrably a foul monetary selection for me, however a superb one for Komoot.
Thus whereas I used to be planning some routes final night time on Komoot, I used to be reminded as soon as once more that I forgot to put up about this….4 to 5 months later.
So why trouble? Nicely, the easy reply is perhaps you’ll nonetheless have the ability to salvage that previous e-mail out of your spam/muddle/junk folders, and get your self that free code. The e-mail was despatched from Polar, and particularly from their publication@polar.com e-mail deal with, with the title Komoot X Polar: NEW FREE REGION. Right here’s a duplicate of the e-mail I obtained, again on October twelfth.
And right here’s the primary of two items of excellent information: That code doesn’t expire. Nicely, I imply, technically it expires…in 2030 in response to Komoot. So by you then’ll be on the Polar Grit X 7G or one thing. So, so long as you handle to really discover this e-mail, you’re golden.
Assuming you do discover it – see that big crimson button above? Do what you at all times do in life with large crimson buttons: Press it.
I imply, clearly not the precise one on this put up, however the one you’ll discover in your e-mail (in case you press on the one on this put up, you’ll get a shock).
This will get us to the second piece of excellent information: You possibly can really put it in your Komoot account for later utilization (so that you don’t lose it once more). Thus simply add it to your Komoot account now, after which later you’ll have the ability to redeem it for no matter area you need.
With that, my public service announcement is finished for the day. Oh, and the second cause this put up occurred at this time, except for me remembering final night time? I wanted a pleasant fast put up since I’m cooking on loads of different issues developing shortly – albeit that does really embrace stalking individuals’s previous rides/hikes on Komoot/Strava Heatmaps, looking for essentially the most scenic routes, which is extra addicting than scrolling by Instagram. Additionally, you realize I’m on Instagram, proper? Now is likely to be a superb time to comply with if not.
As for my utilization of the totally different websites, it relies on what I’m doing. I discover Komoot best for locating real-world photographs of the precise routes, to see if it passes the sanity take a look at. I discover Strava’s heatmaps best as properly for figuring out the place persons are going essentially the most (or, typically the least). Generally I’ll then spot-check my considering towards issues like Suunto’s heatmaps or RideWithGPS or AllTrails, however often I’m in a position to determine what I’m doing with Strava & Komoot. By way of route constructing, if I’m utilizing a pre-built route from Komoot, then I’ll mainly depart it as-is and sync that to my units. Whereas if I’m constructing a route by hand that was ‘impressed by’ one thing on Komoot or Strava, I’ll have a tendency to construct it on Strava, since I’ve acquired extra heatmap knowledge there to work with in making trail-turn-level selections. So in abstract, for longer/crazier routes I are likely to scope issues out in Komoot for visible viability, after which do my building in Strava for ultimate route creation.
Go forth, and thanks for studying!