This run slipped into the early hours of Friday but it is my Thursday run. My excuse is that I got my foot pod today and was keen to try it out. I had a few problems with the pairing, which I then hoped to fix by upgrading my iPhone. Wow, that took forever and it would not sync and then when I thought it was done I could not open any of my apps and then I worked out that it was my Garmin app of all things that was causing there inability to sync so I had to restore and get rid of the Garmin and then load everything back on again. Needless to say it took me forever. After all that it looked like it still would not pair, but then with a bit of patience (of which I had very little by this stage) it worked itself out and I was able to get things working. It matched pretty closely with the treadmill speed and time, however I can't help thinking that it is too fast, unless I tend to run faster on a treadmill than the road.
Day 22/365 Challenge by margcurtis13@hotmail.com at Garmin Connect - Details
Hi Marg - with the foot pod thing do you have to calibrate it for your stride length and things? ie when wearing it, run an exact distance ie 100m and tell it that was a 100m, just so it can account for variations in gait and stride length etc? it's been a while since I've used one, but I remember having to do something like this I think?
ReplyDeleteAs for Florence, now I know you've not done a marathon before - I'm REALLY serious about it!! what better way to end a years worth of running by running your first marathon, with friends, in Europe!!
I think you are right about the marathon. Re the foot pod it is meant to o be 95% accurate as is. It can be calibtrated which takes the accuracy up to 98%. instructions for calibration they say are with the forerunner guide. I am not sure what needs to be down for clibrating with an iPhone. I will do some Internet surfing on it over the weekend.
ReplyDeleteLet me know how much I owe you for the marathon entry.