Yes, Stryd pods work fine in the rain, although they do often register anomalous data spikes if you slam into a puddle and send water into their air-ports. Stryd can be handy when you're trying to maintain constant effort over a hilly course, although after using it for several years now, I most use it for post-run analysis rather than real-time pace control. Good to see you running again!
I'm very envious of your weather-- it's been 90+ degrees for DAYS here in Portland, this morning on my sunrise run it was70 degrees and 60% humidity. blech!! I need to learn what all the data on my watch screens means, you just reminded me to do that. :-)
That is warm. It’s going to get warmer here over the next couple days I guess. I know what you mean about all the data. I tend to learn just what I need at the time …. so I know I’m missing out on a lot of other information that I could be using. Try to start cool. Have a great night!
Hey Tim so good to see you back out there after all you’ve been through and your smile says it all! As for running in the rain try living here in the Uk if we waited for the rain to stop we’d never go out for a run! Take it easy my friend. Ian 🇬🇧
It's been 110-112F heat index for months here with 78F+ dew point and I still won't go to the DM. I run 10-12 miles a day also and that is forever on the wheel of boring.
Stryd Z1 is 65-80% of CP. Both high and low of this range is too extreme. I tend to stay in 70-75% for Z1 power, but ultimately use HR for easy efforts. But until you are able to get in the right runs to set an accurate CP, the numbers don't mean anything. I haven't looked at the Stryd plans in years, but I'm assuming they have a 3/12min testing protocol to set your CP. While I love running with power, I prefer to run recovery/easy runs by HR, and use power for intervals, race specific workouts and obviously racing. What you really need to do is start using your Stryd for treadmill data, and not the treadmill screen which is always wrong. Stryd also has a setting for environment, so when running outside on a stupid hot/humid day, it takes the temperature and humidity and adjusts your raw power number in realtime to an equivalent number. I haven't used it for awhile, but I recall a run last summer where my power number was adjusted 20watts due to how suffering the weather was. Where I truly started to love my Stryd was when I switched to an apple watch, as the integration with apple allows for audible alerts directly to your headphones, so you can stay in your power range without looking at the watch. Do intervals, where you get an audible alert telling you what the power for the next lap is.
