I have a Forerunner, it has a treadmill setting, but I dont think its that accurate. When I increase the pace on the mill, the watch either shows the same or even slower pace.
Do others notice anything similar?
Also how do these watches figure out treadmill pace? From arm movements?
Garmins show a pace on treadmill using an accelerometer. I've seen it show about the same pace no matter how fast I run and is inaccurate enough to be useless. The Garmin footpod is accurate at the speed you calibrate it on, and inaccurate otherwise. Stryd is accurate always.
My gps is really bad on the treadmill. To help, I ride the belt to the back and then sprint to the front and repeat. That helps a lot.
The cadence by arm swing is useless. Last summer I wore my watch and it said I took 12,000 steps. I wasn't taking any steps. I was swinging my cutter mattock building trail. Watch is too stupid to know the difference.
Yes, I get the same thing. When I set my treadmill to 8:00 pace, my Forerunner shows roughly 8:00 pace. When I speed up the treadmill to 7:30 or 7:00, my Garmin stays about the same or even shows a slower pace. I don't know if it's based on the accelerometer, cadence * your average stride length, or a combination. Mine is the Forerunner 235 which only has a generic indoor running setting.
On the indoor track it's actually pretty accurate, averages about 0.97 or .98 miles per actual mile run. I bet if I wore it on my right wrist it might get pretty close to true.
I have a Sole F80, still can't get it calibrated well enough to do any fast workouts on it... tried carefully measuring the belt length and counting revolutions, measuring the roller diameter with calipers, going by heart rate and my Forerunner on indoor setting - nothing seems to jive. Anyone had success using a footpod on the treadmill to get what they felt was an accurate reading?
They should be called dumb watches instead wrote:
My gps is really bad on the treadmill. To help, I ride the belt to the back and then sprint to the front and repeat. That helps a lot.
The cadence by arm swing is useless. Last summer I wore my watch and it said I took 12,000 steps. I wasn't taking any steps. I was swinging my cutter mattock building trail. Watch is too stupid to know the difference.
How did you manage to not destroy a bulky GPS watch wearing it while building trail?
Terrible, just terrible
Did you qualify for Boston?
I've had good results from a Garmin Footpod and would recommend.
I have a Suunto, but, like the other say, it's poor on the treadmill. My arm movement isn't that well correlated with my pace, and that's probably true for most runners. As pace changes from slow to fast, there's a large zone where my cadence, and therefore armswing rate, is relatively stable, so a wrist accelerometer can only do so much.
Footpod works fine for me indoors. You have to first run outdoors a couple of times with the Footpod, to allow for the watch to calibrate the Footpod against GPS. After that it all lines up pretty well.