Mobility- It is light-weight and also sufficiently small to affix to your various other running gears. You can wear this device, walk without anyone observing you have it. As the Calibration Factor increases, so does estimated stride length and, therefore, estimated distance traveled. Set at 900, my actual 2km run was estimated at 1.70km. Set at 1200, my actual 2km run was guestimated at 2.26km. Every 50 point increase in Calibration Factor was worth about 0.1 km on a 2km course. The “right” number for me,for now, for running seems to be 1050 (2.01 estimated km).

A: The Forerunner 305, FR310XT, FR405, FR405CX, FR410, FR610, FR210, FR50 and FR60. Note that the FR205 is NOT foot pod compatible. Windy courses can dampen spirits and performance expectations resulting in significant impacts beyond that which the weather alone would have wrought. With the training from Stryd, you’ll have a much better understanding of a realistic impact, allowing a more realistic mental approach to the race

Water-resistant– the Garmin Running Dynamics Pod is entirely water-proof. This is a feature that offers you the flexibility to function and also run under any type of scenario. Also, the distance reported by the treadmill is at least as likely to be off as your foot pod calibration. Worse the correct calibration for me on pavement is significantly different than running the same speed on a treadmill. Your mileage may vary :).

But as regards Fenix 6X I never tried what it would have given me as a distance covered if I had disabled my footpod as the source of distance.Last, but not least, we all seem to forget that foot pods were invented primarily to allow you to record some kind of reasonable pace information as a component of your indoor runs and not as a highly precise speed or distance measuring instrument. For newbies, running or cycling on Zwift could be a fantastic means to begin. The most effective part is, running using this innovation is reasonably very easy. All you require is a treadmill or an exercise bike, foot pods that can connect to the Zwift App. Increased internal storage by 64x, better for the ultra training and racing as well as much higher precision data collection – as that additional granular data needs space. Oh, Garmin does VERY well in the Aviation and Maritime industries.. VERY WELL. As in, they should almost be ASHAMED of themselves. 🙂 Our testers had no problem with the durability of this product. The built-in battery, according to Garmin claims, will last years. Our testing did not last that long so we cannot verify this claim. Accuracy

Dan, I don’t have a VA so have to answer you in a general way. Go run a known distance in Indoor Run mode. Divide that known distance by whatever your VA reports for that run and multiply that result by 100. This is your new calibration factor. For instance if youvrun a mile and your recorded activity is 1.1 miles your calibration factor is 91 (1÷1.1=0.9090909091×100=91. Remember though that your calibration factor is pace dependent. On my fenix2 (1000 point calibration scale) proper calibration for walking is 950, long, slow run is 1040 and faster runs are closer to 1000.I’ve found again and again that the latest generation of foot pods are incredibly accurate. Last winter I put together a review of the FR60 – which is an ANT+ watch that doesn’t have GPS. As such, it depends on the Garmin ANT+ foot pod. After doing calibration I did many runs side by side with it’s GPS-enabled brethren, the FR310XT. 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. For my next attempt (or for others who may wish to try this) I will either move a treadmill into my underground bat cave or (more likely) I’ll drop my watch into a tin box while I am on the treadmill at the gym.

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.

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But there’s one little piece of data you won’t get from a treadmill console – or from GPS – and that’s running cadence. Yup, the foot pod will tell your cadence, which is a key area that many high end runners aim to improve (increase). Think of it simply as how many times your foot strikes the ground each minute. Ideally, this would start at about 92 times per minute, but that’s a whole different discussion for another day… The device: