Garmin 010-11092-00 Foot Pod for Garmin Forerunner Sports Watch - Black

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So, either the Vivoactive does not update the cal factor or 100 is the correct cal factor. So… I tried running a lap with it set to indoor running:

So a couple of days ago I decided to disable my footpod as a distance source outdoors and parallely I grabbed two of my three 🙂 rusty 910XTs which have been paired with these two Suunto minis. Certainly only one footpod per one watch. I know that 910XT would record distance using by GPS, because it uses footpod only a speed source, and distance only in case of lost GPS fix, so I will disable GPS before each of my future walks and hikes.

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The race power calculator: Like any metric, knowing how to apply it effectively is vital, particularly come race day. Stryd makes it easy to set a power target for distances from 5km to the marathon. Related: The RW race time predictor But due to really bad weather those last few weeks, i had to run on treadmill couple of times. I selected the pace detection (on my FR910xt) on footpod and some display issue on my Watch appeared. The pace was display in m/sec instead of min/km (when using GPS detection outside). A: At the moment there’s only a few hard to get Android phones that support ANT+ natively, so support will look much better in Feb 2011.

If you forget though, don’t worry – the unit will actually still record your pace/speed/distance using the foot pod. It’s just that some older applications don’t correctly interpret this. Though, none of the major ones in use today have any issues. A new Stryd product release will be publicly announced at the end of this week. The new product is intended to upgrade and replace the current Stryd. It comes with innovative new features that we think will truly amaze the running community.

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Once you’re done running, you’ll see two graphs on Garmin Connect (or other similar application). First, is the speed and distance like you would normally see outdoors:

A few foundation ideas may help put the terminology in a context that makes it easier to understand. First is the idea that GPS rules. If there is a good signal available, that is what people like Garmin think you should use—for everything. Second, at least since the invention of wearable GPS, foot pods have been viewed as a necessary evil to capture pace/speed in a GPS-signal-free environment (indoors). One really cool tool that’s come available since I originally wrote this is a tool which enables you to actually calibrate the footpod by just doing your runs as normal outside with the GPS turned on. Based on those runs the tool can determine your correct calibration factor. Pretty cool! But then there is the curiosity factor. I’m curious about the whole calibration thing. I have gotten the impression from things I have read that calibration is about fine tuning speed and distance estimation. I used GPS to calibrate mine while walking first day out and ended up with a calibration factor of 0906 whatever that means. I intend to calibrate it again today while running and am curious to see if I get a substantially different calibration factor.

Widely compatible: A real strong point, Stryd plays nice with most brands, lots of running watches and running platforms so it can follow you even if your loyalties change. I got on a 16 month old Matrix model T-5X-07-C treadmill set at a 1% incline and walked for 10 minutes at a setting of 3 mph. At 10 minute intervals, I increased the speed by 1 MPH up through 6 mph. I was wearing a fenix3 on 6.90 software, an HRM-RUN and a SDM4 Garmin foot pod. The foot pod was set at a calibration of 100.0 on the fenix3. At 2 and 3 mph, I was walking. At 5 and 6 mph, I was running. I just got a Garmin 235 and a footpod. I am a new runner – started in August. I mainly do 2 min run/1 min walk intervals at a pace around 10 min for run and 15 for walk.

Since I acquired my Stryd, which I use only for runs, I have been exclusively using 2 Suuntos for walk and hike (one on a pair of shoes and one on a pair of boots). The third one was given to one of my sons to use it for his runs.I have no way of knowing if the treadmill is properly calibrated for speed but it felt “right”. Besides, the main goal of this experiment was to determine the impact of relative pace on calibration factors as opposed to determining whether either or both of the displayed treadmill speed/indicated foot pod pace were actually accurate. I theorize that these results will likely vary considerably from one individual to the next. I am both old and inexperienced. My 20% speed increase from 5 to 6 mph was accomplished with a less than 1% increase in cadence and 19% increase in stride length. I am guessing this is not an optimal combination. Now, if you run on a treadmill a lot, and need precise distance and pace data, and don’t trust the treadmill’s display, then a foot pod will be useful. But I don’t think that specific demographic and use case scenario is getting any larger than it already is.