One Garmin footpod per shoe or swap between many?

If you can afford it then get one footpod per pair of shoes. I have 6 pairs of running shoes and 4 footpods attached to the 4 pairs I use most. The problem with reattaching a footpod to another pair of shoes is that to achieve best accuracy the footpod should be recalibrated each time.

If you can afford it then get one footpod per pair of shoes. I have 6 pairs of running shoes and 4 footpods attached to the 4 pairs I use most. The problem with reattaching a footpod to another pair of shoes is that to achieve best accuracy the footpod should be recalibrated each time.

The recalibration is exactly what I was thinking about. Thanks for the confirmation. I may add a second pod... one for road and one for trail as a starting point. I use the same shoe (two pairs) for road (Altra Escalante) and the same two pairs for trail (Altra Lone Peak). I just have a spare road shoe (Altra Provision) that I use if my other road shoes are too wet to use. I usually keep them in my vehicle as an "emergency" running shoe. :)

Thanks!

If you buy 4 Garmin foot pods, you could for the same money buy one Stryd - which you can move between shoes without needing recalibration.

Have Runscribe solved their accuracy problems?

The recalibration is exactly what I was thinking about.

It is worth noting, though, that even an uncalibrated footpod works decently. It really depends on how accurate you want it to be.

If you buy 4 Garmin foot pods, you could for the same money buy one Stryd -

Right. Buying 4 Garmin footpods makes no sense, I agree. There are however clones which work as well as garmin's, but are much cheaper. I managed to obtain a handful of adidas micoach speedcell footpods. Hardware-wise they are identical to the garmin sdm4 footpod as they are manufactured by the same company (Dynastream), only branded with an adidas logo. I paid for them about $10 each.

Right. Buying 4 Garmin footpods makes no sense, I agree. There are however clones which work as well as garmin's, but are much cheaper. I managed to obtain a handful of adidas micoach speedcell footpods. Hardware-wise they are identical to the garmin sdm4 footpod as they are manufactured by the same company (Dynastream), only branded with an adidas logo. I paid for them about $10 each.

mind sharing how you purchased those?

Oh, it was quite a long time ago. I found an online retailer who had a stockpile of those, and was selling them really cheap. Don't remember now where it was exactly. Anyway, where I live (Poland) the adidas footpod occasionally appears at a very low price on the most popular local e-commerce site (allegro.pl). A quick search revealed that specimen can be found also on ebay (https://www.ebay.pl/itm/Adidas-miCoach-SPEED-CELL-Bundle-black-NS/183172123349?hash=item2aa5e8cad5:g:rCYAAOSwIxxZnxdv). Watch out, though. The adidas footpod came in two variants: BLE and ANT+. Verify before purchase.

And if not adidas, there are many more clones, for example Decathlon stores in Europe sold the very same footpod branded as Geonaute. They are not available any more at Decathlon, but can be found sometimes elsewhere. And these are probably not the only clones of the garmin sdm4.

Have Runscribe solved their accuracy problems?

Not sure how great a fix it is, but RS+ just released an update that supposedly "fixes" the distance reliability issue with the devices. V 36.1

Have Runscribe solved their accuracy problems?

On the latest Beta seem it to be working quite well - at least when you did a calibration of it before the (first) run with the new beta...