{"id":506,"date":"2014-07-25T11:28:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T11:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/?p=506"},"modified":"2014-07-25T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T11:28:08","slug":"replacement-strap-for-wahoo-blue-hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/replacement-strap-for-wahoo-blue-hr\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement strap for Wahoo Blue HR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now I&#8217;ve been strapping a Wahoo Blue HR bluetooth heart rate monitor to my chest each morning before going for a run.<\/p>\n<p>It talks to Runkeeper on my iPhone while I&#8217;m running, tracking my current heart rate, average heart rate and current hear rate zone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used it so often that about a week ago the elastic strap that allows you to wear the device around your chest started to come apart.<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to buy a new monitor I looked into getting a replacement strap. Unfortunately Wahoo don&#8217;t currently offer one in the UK. But their friendly customer support folks pointed me to two options from other manufacturers that are compatible, so I thought I&#8217;d share them here in case anyone else is looking for a replacement strap for their Blue HR.<\/p>\n<p>They suggested either the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00893LQNK\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B00893LQNK&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=mylocalsites-21\">Polar Chest Strap Soft Strap<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=mylocalsites-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B00893LQNK\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00BI9X1OO\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=B00BI9X1OO&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=mylocalsites-21\">Garmin Replacement Soft Strap<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=mylocalsites-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B00BI9X1OO\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>I went for the Polar version.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s designed slightly differently to the original Wahoo strap and I needed to stretch the fabric between the two connection points a bit before the device would stay popped in and attached (the original Wahoo strap had no fabric between the connections so this wasn&#8217;t a problem).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve run about six 5km runs wearing it now and the Polar strap seems to be working really well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now I&#8217;ve been strapping a Wahoo Blue HR bluetooth heart rate monitor to my chest each morning before going for a run. It talks to Runkeeper on my iPhone while I&#8217;m running, tracking my current heart rate, average heart rate and current hear rate zone. I&#8217;ve used it so often that about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cheezepie.com\/stream\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}