I recently purchased a Stryd foot pod and also read Jim Vance's book, "Run With Power". I'd really like to give this training with power a shot, but I'm really confused. Basically everyone with a power training plan uses 7 power zones. Stryd uses 5 zones. Has anyone used a 7 zone training plan with their Stryd and how did you go about doing so since the zones are different? Stryd has their own training plans, but they're all geared towards advanced runners. I consider myself an intermediate runner looking to improve. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Have you checked Stryd's "Training with Power" manual? It's a very good read, and on page 11 they explain how to map zones from different approaches. EDIT: Apparently the boards forbid to post urls. Just google Stryd power manual, it's a top 5 result marked as "pdf power".
In short they suggest to map 7 zones to 5 like this: 1 -> 1 2 -> 2 3 & 4 -> 3 5a & b -> 4 5c -> 5
