I’m wondering if the forerunner 255 shows the steps per activity. I know it shows you your daily step count but if I ran a half marathon, I want to know how many steps I took during that time not my daily total.
Not directly, but you can compute it from the average cadence and the duration of the activity. Also, you can set up a screen with step count in the activity type you are using to keep track of steps. After the session, you will not find it again.
Trust me, if you run a half marathon, you won't be counting your steps. Anyway, I don't know of a single person running more than 20k a week who would be interested in the counting of steps. Again, for each activity you will get the total length of the distance and the average of your stride - see the statistics. In this way...
I have done half marathon, and I am interested in steps. Remember there are step based competitions and challenges on many platforms. And some people are doing step streaks.
I have done a half marathon as well, and my steps did track for the activity and it was astonishing. I’m definitely interested in knowing how many steps I took. I’d like to know how it compares to the trail half marathon that I’m going to do. Road versus Trail same distance.
OK, if you are really interested in that, there are two ways, I think. One without additional equipment, one with.
1. Cadence (=Average steps per minute!) Look that up in the runs metrics and multiplicate it with the number of minutes of the activity. Voila. Should work for running and walking too.
2. Stride length (only available when running with a HRM PRO (+) or Running Dynamics Pod) Look up the average stride length and divide the length of the activity through it. Voila. Even more interesting, if you go deeper into metrics based training: You can not only see the average, but a graph of how it developed over the run and how it was influenced by pace, hills, etc.
My experience is that the stride length (and pace) from my HRM Pro is quite unreliable. When I am jogging at 10 km/t, it is fairly correct, but it thinks 16 km/h is 12 km/h, and 25 km/h is 16 km/h. To calibrate the high speeds, I guess I have to run outdoors with GPS for 2 hours at that speed, but nobody can run 2 hours at 25 km/h....
My experience is that the stride length (and pace) from my HRM Pro is quite unreliable.
Outdoors? When running with GPS?
I think we might have a misunderstanding here. I understood, Tina Bee wanted to know how many steps she had when running a track outdoors, eg a half marathon. The stride length is one way to find that out and outdoors it will work like this (if you leave your HRM Pro on default setting „use for distance and pace - only indoors“): The watch will record distance and pace and the HRM will add running dynamics, steps for example. The stride length will be calculated from GPS data and the steps from HRM. I never had the impression, it might be wrong.
Indoors might be another thing, but I never run indoors, so I can’t say anything about that.
Stride length is computed from pace and cadence. You don't need the HRM-Pro or foot pod for that outdoors when you have GPS. They are supposed to give you better data indoors, but my experience is that the watch guesses the pace (and thus stride length) more accurately without it.
