Stryd adds PACE >> POWER Conversion to workouts.
Stryd has just added a great new feature to automatically convert planned pace to power when you import workouts and plans from TrainingPeaks (TP) and Final Surge (FS). This makes working with plans a whole lot easier for devotees of running power.
Power-based Training for Greater Precision
, as you might expect from the name, is the automatic conversion tool that transforms traditional pace-based workouts into power-based sessions, aligning them with Stryd’s ecosystem. Power delivers several benefits:
- Consistent Effort Across Conditions: Power targets adjust for hills, wind, and other environmental factors.
- Integration with Two Key Training Ecosystems: The feature works with TrainingPeaks and Final Surge.
- Personalised Power Targets: Stryd’s algorithm tailors power targets to your unique running profile.
- Real-Time Adaptation: Power metrics support real-time adjustment to pace without knowing how your pace should change as the conditions change.
How to Get Started
The feature is now available for all Stryd users.
Create a pace workout on today’s TP or FS calendar, then check SETTINGS on the Stryd app. FS/TP need to be connected to your app; once connected, you can manually sync them. Simple, the workouts should now be on your Stryd calendar.
How the Conversion Works
Stryd already has your pace history as well as your power history. It correlates the two. However, it is not a straightforward correlation, and I assume it re-bases and normalises your actual pace to be the equivalent of a ‘flat’ pace in neutral environmental conditions. There may be further adjustments and correlations at different intensities, perhaps accounting for biomechanical changes in your form. Anyway, it’s more complicated than you might think if done correctly.
Stryd’s system already handles power ‘correctly’ when you execute the workout.
Take Out
This is a long-overdue move by Stryd.
Stryd has always seemed reticent to embrace the co-existence of power and pace, understandably wanting us to buy into its power metric fully. Fair enough. However, the reality of runners on the ground is that we sometimes wish to use pace.
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They should add pace to more of their ecosystem: race calculation in app & workouts.
Pace is the universal language of runners in my club at least
yup
i’m sure they know it
lots more features coming form them this year, maybe more pace is amongst them? (IDK)
“lots more features coming form them this year”
Do you have intel?
comments along those lines with no specifics
Thanks. I’ve noticed Stryd developers being a bit more cranky on their forums and other interactions with users (granted, some of the questions can be dumb sometimes). DCRainmaker made a comment on a recent post implying he didn’t see a long term future for Stryd (which is a shame). I wonder if they’re feeling pressure with their product line – maybe Garmin’s Cold-War-esque tactics towards them is finally doing them in.
there’s a LOT of runners out there. I guess only a certain percentage will ever be interested in power enough to buy the most accurate way to ‘measure’ it. I suspect stryd has many more potential customers to reach.
my concern was more that they would run out of things to do! judging by the latest comments they have indeed found more to do this year!
Yes, certainly only a very small percentage of all runners would opt for the geeky numbers-centric nature of putting a pod on their shoe – that’s for certain. Heck, many runners don’t even wear a watch – or at least pretend it’s not important to them.
No, Stryd’s market is a subset of a subset (of another subset) of all runners – probably plenty there to run a viable business though!
I’ve always thought they should lean in hard on triathletes (since most are accustomed to power meters already on the bike – and have substantial discretionary income), but I’ve never really seen any evidence of that being a strategy of theirs (they tend to go where the fulltime runners go – like the Boston marathon).
yes to triathletes. i think they might also consider including bike power in their powercenter
it’s worth looking at STRYD’s ciq downloads. They got over 100k several years ago and i haven’t bothered to look since. also have to add in Garmin Running Power for an indication of market size. you could also looka at the Apple appstore review of the stryd app. if they’ve got over 1000 they are doing well.
If 100K then that is far more than I would’ve guessed had a Stryd footpod.
100,000 * $200 = $20,000,000 m … say a 50% margin
and as i said the 100k downlaods was maybe 5 years ago and just reflects garmin users, not apple users.
https://apps.garmin.com/apps/18fb2cf0-1a4b-430d-ad66-988c847421f4
Well some of that 100K would be repeat downloads as users upgrade devices (I know I’ve had Stryd on at least a 935, 945, and a 965 for example) – but that’s still alot of users especially as you said it doesn’t count Apple (or Coros, Suunto, etc).