Stryd Footpod vs GPS

You mean you want to know gps distance vs pod distance, right? Maybe look on Garmin connect. There are two data tracks recorded by different devices: the pod, and the watch gps. I doubt Garmin or Strava would just throw out a data stream.

The gps points are kept, use something like

https://www.gpxsee.org/

to see the track and plot and you can work out the difference for any calibration, you will need to download the file from Garmin/strava, don’t think it uses fit files.

Note that though stryd is repeatable and reliable it does vary depending on position on the shoes and stack height. GPS is well GPS, something good some times average along with how good the watch is. You will need 1second recording on the watch otherwise your data points could be far apart

Thanks for the help.

In most of my runs the Stryd (foot pod) distance and GPS distance deviate by 0.1-0.3 miles. But in my most recent run they were of by 1.25 miles. I even noticed the poor distance of the Stryd during my run because I was looping a lake of a known distance and my 2k intervals entered on the Garmin seemed to be going longer than 2k based on my familiarity with the lake.

I did move the Stryd further up on my shoes since I was wearing a new pair of shoes (Tempo Next %). That seemed to really throw things off I guess. I wonder if my gait in the Tempo Next% also threw things off.

You can use Strava for that. There's a link "Distance (?)" under actual distance for your activity, there you will find a function to recalculate distance according to Strava and to revert it back to what your device reported. Stryd is correct once you calibrate it for the shoe/Stryd position.

have u taken the stryd to the track to get a proper calibration? in both the old version and the wind I've had to get the calibration factor adjusted.

The sideway lace pattern definitely messes with the stryd atleast with the next %. Normal shoes i have it at 102.5 and 104.5 in the next %. maybe it's the same with the tempo.

Shoes may throw off the stryd measurements, I have two pairs of shoes which do that significantly, endorphin pro and adizero pro. Also anatomical positioning of stryd matters, it should be at the same position at the instep, one row of laces lower towards the toes on the adizero lines shoe resulted in about 2% lower pace. I relaced in order for the windport to function and get readings comparable to other shoes that have less laceloops

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Stryd vs GPS distance.

A friend has Stryd and was telling me that it is more accurate at distance than GPS.

This does not make sense to me. My thought process is that the pod has a small error associated with its calculation & variables which gets multiplied by thousands of steps adding up to an appreciable error. In contrast, GPS is recording actual coordinates along your path then connecting the dots, so as long as you have good GPS signal it is very accurate.

Am i missing something here? Ive seen others say that stryd is very accurate as well, although most are bloggers who might be just regurgitating the marketing literature. IDK.

Maybe they are pumping up stryd by comparing it in its ideal conditions/setup to a GPS with poor signal or something like a run through city streets?

How exactly does this pod calculate distance? (including formula & variables)

People are talking about having to recalibrate for diff shoes & lacing. What if you have several shoes in rotation? Do you just accept the error, or take the time to calibrate all of them?