Welcome to this month’s GPS Training podcast, it’s our 12th episode.

1. Today we have Andy and myself, Jon

As always, we are streaming it live on Facebook

So if you want to see what we all look like take a look at our Facebook page –

1. Just search for GPS Training on Facebook and don’t forget to ‘like’ our page.

So, without further ado let’s get on with today’s podcast ……

It's our 12th podcast, we did our first ever GPS Training Podcast in September last year so its nearly at our 1st birthday, maybe we can something a bit different next month.

Then the following month, October, we first streamed it live in Facebook.

Since that first month it, hopefully, it has improved, we have had plenty of good GPS chat and some great guests such as

Tom from Garmin, who has been on twice

Ross from SatMap

Pete from the Podcach show, I actually met Pete last week at the Mega GeoCaching event in Yorkshire, he bought a new GPS unit from us

Mike, the walking Englishman

and of course, Duncan, the Scottish guy who has built his own rowing boat and is rowing across the Atlantic and as of Thursday he is half way so he’s going well. Duncan has got one of our Garmin inReaches with him and if you get our Friday newsletter you will have been able to track him live online.

Let's hope over the coming year we can continue to get some great guests on.

In today’s podcast, we are going to look at the following –

1. We will look at the new Garmin Fenix 5s plus, the smaller brother/ sister of the 5 plus that we talked about in last months Podcast

2. We will chat over what motorbike ‘trail riders’ need to navigate along ‘green lanes’ both in the UK and beyond

3. We have Andy’s top tips - both Garmin and SatMap

4. If you get our weekly newsletter you will see this week I asked if anybody wanted anything covered in this month’s Podcast.

On the back of this request, we got lots of ‘support’ questions of how to do this/ that etc so this month, for one month only, we are going to have a ‘Ask Andy’ when I will ask Andy some of these technical/ support questions that we received this week.

5. And then finally we are having our first ever GPS Training competition, but you will have to wait until the end of the Podcast to see what you can win

1. Garmin’s new Fenix 5s plus

Last month we had Tom on the podcast talking about the new Garmin Fenix plus GPS watch.

But over the past month they have now brought out the little brother/ sister of this watch, so Andy, what is the difference between the Fenix 5 plus and the Fenix 5s plus

A, Smaller 42 x 42 x 15.4mm compared to 47 x 47 x 15.8mm

Strap 20mm wide compared to 22mm

B, Lighter 65g compared to 86g

C, Battery 7 days normal 11hrs GPS , compared to 12days Normal 19hrs GPS

In the GPS Training online resource, Andy has put together some great step by step videos about everything you need to know to use the new Fenix 5 plus to its full potential.

How many videos in total are there? 28

And they cover everything from switching it on for the first time, pairing it with your phone right through to using Garmin Pay and lots more

Please do take a look at the new Fenix 5 and 5s plus on our website – just go to gpstraining.co.uk – click on – GPS store – then under – multi-activity GPS watch – you will see – Garmin GPS watch

To watch the training videos for the Fenix watch in our online resource – just go to – gpstraining.co.uk – click on – the online resource and you will see them under – courses – multi-activity GPS Watches – then – Garmin Fenix 5 Watches

2 – Motorbike ‘trail riders’, what do you need to navigate along ‘green lanes’ both in the UK and beyond

1. Garmin Montana 610/ 680

- Why would you choose one of these units, what are the benefits for the trail riders.

- What map set do the trail riders use and why?

2. Bike mount or AMPS kit

- I suspect everybody knows what a bike mount is but what Andy is the AMPS kit and what are the benefits ...