Stryd Questions

Former Member over 7 years ago

thinking about getting a stryd to get better pace and distance measurements with my fenix 5x, and have some questions for people who have used the stryd.

if i set pace and distance to "always' will the recorded run/walk save the pace and distance from the stride or GPS?
will it still be accurate with pace and distance if i do run/walk intervals?
will it still be accurate with pace and distance power walking (i power walk at a 4 to 4.5 mph pace @ 130 to 140 spm)?
is it abe to do power along with pace and distance at the same time with the fenix 5x?
does the pace stay close in real time or does it jump all over the place like it does when using GPS?

i am starting to work on my pace a little but the pace jumps all over the place on the fenix5 because of the GPS, and if the GPS happens to shorten my distance on a given run, it affects my total avg. pace and could even affect my VO2max as well.

any answers and/or any other information at all would be much appreciated.

thanks in advance,

0 kdelios over 7 years ago

1. Is coming from stryd.
2. Yes
3. Yes. I did many trail races which included power hike at steep sections, and the distance was always spot on.
4. Yes
5. Stryd provides accurate raw pace. Not smoothed as GPS watches.

For grater accuracy you should get a calibration factor by doing some laps at a verified 400m track.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

5. does the pace stay close in real time or does it jump all over the place like it does when using GPS?

I use a 3rd party datafield that provides me a 10 second avg pace. Nu jumps in pace anymore.

And I can confirm the answers from kdelios

I will never get out to a run without my stryd anymore!

0 WillCW over 7 years ago

No need for a seperate app. Install the Stryd Power Data Field and include in one of your data screens. With watch plugged into computer, open Garmin Express/ Manage Apps and select Stryd Power settings. Here you can choose your Power Averaging as Real Time, 3 sec, 10 sec, 30 sec, Lap Power, or Overall Power. What you choose depens upon your activity and power training routine. I find for most activities that 3 sec avergaing works well.

0 kdelios over 7 years ago

No need for a seperate app. Install the Stryd Power Data Field and include in one of your data screens. With watch plugged into computer, open Garmin Express/ Manage Apps and select Stryd Power settings. Here you can choose your Power Averaging as Real Time, 3 sec, 10 sec, 30 sec, Lap Power, or Overall Power. What you choose depens upon your activity and power training routine. I find for most activities that 3 sec avergaing works well.

He is writing about pace not power...

0 WillCW over 7 years ago

My bad. Yeah, pace from Stryd is spot on for me but get the point about averaging for this too.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Thanks for all the replies.

now i have other questions...

since my only concern is pace and distance, how does the Garmin Foot Pod work for pace and distance compared to the stryd?

Can i use the Garmin foot pod the same way as the stryd for pace/distance?

Is the Garmin foot pod accurate enough for walking/running/intervals?

thanks,

0 kdelios over 7 years ago

Can i use the Garmin foot pod the same way as the stryd for pace/distance?

Yes

Is the Garmin foot pod accurate enough for walking/running/intervals?

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

thanks for the replies and helpful information.

the main reason i am considering this is that Garmin uses firstbeat to determine VO2max. firstbeat uses pace and heart rate which makes pace an important factor. i have been working on my pace lately and have just got to a "good" VO2max with the Garmin (currently 39). i have always gotten "poor" to "fair" VO2max readings with Garmin devices, even though i get good to excellent readings with other devices (Polar, fitbit, Suunto). at first i thought it was just Garmin, but after doing some research i realize that Garmin is probably more accurate, even though it sucks that i have been working so hard over the past few years to improve my fitness, only to find out it's still "fair" at best.

i started working on my pace and doing a lot of run/walk intervals, and am now starting to get good VO2max numbers with the Garmin. I found a VO2max calculator and put my average pace, age, average heart rate, and weight into the calculator and got very close to the same number i get from the Garmin.

anyway, using GPS for distance affects the pace, and even though GPS is usually within a few hundredths of a mile, every once in a while it is off much more due to just not having a good signal, and it throws the pace off enough to affect my VO2max.

I figure the Stryd will be more accurate, and more importantly, more consistent with pace and distance, and this should keep my Vo2max more accurate.

thanks again,

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Hi if you do decide to get one could you please keep us posted on how you get on with it

I was looking at getting one to try and help me with increasing my distance but I am not great at crunching numbers so don’t now if it would be worth it or not for me.

Any way good look with your training and did you do a max hart rate test if that is set wrong your vo2max number we’ll be wrong

Mick

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Hi if you do decide to get one could you please keep us posted on how you get on with it

I was looking at getting one to try and help me with increasing my distance but I am not great at crunching numbers so don’t now if it would be worth it or not for me.

Any way good look with your training and did you do a max hart rate test if that is set wrong your vo2max number we’ll be wrong

Mick

Can you explain how it would be useful to increase distance?

I would be interested in that as well.

I had a stress test done and my MHR came out to be within a few BPM from the 220 - age formula (I'm 60 so 220 - 60 = 160), so i just keep my MHR at the default (220 - age). I have done several tests with a chest strap where I got into zone 5 for a while and then went full blast until i could not go anymore. Most of the time I could not get past 160, except for a few times that I got a few BPM higher. Not sure if those where spikes in the heart rate strap or not, so I just keep it at 160.