Changes

* '''Footpod'''. Stryd can send standard Footpod data over both Bluetooth and Ant, giving the usual distance, pace, and cadence data. You can use it like this to get accurate distance, pace and Cadence data into the vast majority of watches I've tested. However, only a few watches will support this while recording a GPS track, and so most will need to be in indoor/treadmill mode. This means there's two modes to consider:

** '''Footpod with GPS'''. This is the ideal mode; you have your watch get all distance and pace data from Stryd, while still recording a GPS track. This will allow you to show where you've run, enable any navigation like back to start or breadcrumbs, and for things like Strava segments.

* '''Footpod with Power in Cadence'''. This is similar to the above scenario, but Stryd will put power into the Cadence field. That gives you access to its power estimate on a wide range of watches, but there are two significant downsides. Firstly, you don't get Cadence information, which is arguably rather more important than an estimate of power unless you're really confident that your cadence is good. Secondly, because of the Bluetooth protocol, the Cadence field has a range of 0-255, and power estimates can be quite a bit larger. Therefore, stride divides the actual power by 10, so 210 watts will appear as 21 steps/minute. Therefore, you lose a little bit of granularity, though in practice I don't think that's a huge deal. This is only an issue for Bluetooth watches; Ant+ works fine. <span style='color:#FF0000'>Important: Stryd have stated they are removing this feature!</span>

* '''Cycling Power Meter'''. Stryd can send the same data that a cycling power meter would, so any watch that supports the cycling power meter will support stride in the same way. This gives some good support for power, and in indoor cycling mode you should be able to get pace, distance, and cadence data from the stride as well. There are a few annoyances with this approach, the biggest one being that you get your speed in MPH or KPH rather than min/mile or min/Km which would take some getting used to if you're a runner that used to thinking in terms of pace rather than speed. The other annoyance is that all of your data files will be considered as cycling rather than running, which could confuse your training log.

Here's another way of looking at the options. I've ranked them in the order I'd use them, which is accurate pace & distance is the most important thing, then having GPS tracks for navigation, then having the power estimate, and lastly having the extra Stryd data.

{{:Stryd-Modes-table}}

==Watch Specifics==

Here's a mapping of the modes above to specific watches. In all cases, I've prioritized accurate pace/distance information over either GPS data or the power estimate. I've put the detailed notes of how to pair Stryd with specific watches and how well they work at the bottom of this page.