STRYD Footpath – a quick overview & Walk Through of my Example More: detailed Stryd Review Hot on the heels of a new sensor last year, Stryd has very recently introduced the ability to pair together two of these next-gen…
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Do you get any actionable insights?
as i said above in the conclusion: “I am not those hands” 🙂
even if ideal footpath tracks were added I still don’t see what the actionable insight would be. i think you and i both would want to be told what to do next to improve. no doubt the stock answer is to monitor trends over time
This is really interesting data.
Next step will be to turn interesting into insightful (Stryd, not you)
But we all began somewhere, and this is Day 1 for Stryd on that journey.
I can see shops with treadmills finding use for this product when customers trial various shoes.
yep, shops and physios alike perhaps
I like the idea of this but without actionability it sure seems like navel-gazing. At least the Stryd guys made effort to easily view the data in relation to past data.
But in the end, what are you supposed to do with it?
Btw, one awesome feature would be to view the data LIVE on the Stryd app. Meaning, running on a treadmill with the app on display in front of you. Tweaking your stride for “improvement” in some area would be easily done that way but what would constitute improvement is the big question.
yeah, i think everyone seems to be arriving at that opinion. My navel was interesting for a few hours but then….
as said elsewhere in the comments this is Gen 1 and STRYD must have run out of conventional ideas by now (meant in a nice way) so no doubt more is to come with this new type of data.
First time i’ve heard of the live treadmill idea…taht would be cool.
don’t forget the subscription includes other stuff, so this adds more value to the subscription offering and i’m sure will be welcomed by those who already have it
The subscription adds the LBS metric, and ability to create/use workouts/training-plans. Anything else I am missing?
LBS is just “shrug” for me, and I can already create workouts in other software (sporttracks) and run them in the native Garmin Run app (using a datafield that leverages stryd as a power meter).
So I’m curious if there is something else that adds value from a membership.
I feel for the Stryd team, it’s a hard to upsell existing users like me who are already getting (IMO) 95% of the benefit of Stryd from a legacy device. The hard truth is that they would be better off killing off support for older/legacy stryd pods and forcing users like me to upgrade. I’m in that gray area where I feel my Stryd is indispensible (and would replace it right away if I lost it), but I’m not willing to shell out for an upgrade for perceived limited benefit.
membership info is here: https://www.stryd.com/uk/en/pages/membership
i think stryd has done it’s bit to provide a nice balance between a fixed cost pod and a premium membership. To kill the pod working without owning a membership would be a massive mistake.
there must be over 100,000 stryd users, thats a small share of total runners so there is scope to grow with stryd/duo/membership
growth is unlikely now to come from any more hardware sales of new type of products. eg hip sensor or torso sensor
i agree with your comment at the end in that stryd is indepensible, stryd’s commercial problem must be when the sales levels mature. what happens to the company then?
my suggestions were
1. aim to “own” running power on watchOS: make the stryd app work with apple running power – either for free or for a small app subscription. offer the upgrade to stryd hardware one the Watch user buys into running power.
2. leverage stryd’s excellent data field in the garmin environment and try to monetise it giving support to other novel sensors eg Core, moxy/train.red, supersapiens