Setting up your Stryd footpod
Once you’ve received your footpod, follow the setup instructions in the box.
The Suunto setup instructions are also on the Stryd website.
Once you’ve finished setting up your footpod, you should have:
- created a login to Stryd PowerCenter
- installed the Stryd mobile app on your phone (and paired your footpod to the mobile app)
- connected the Suunto app to the Stryd app
- paired your Stryd as a sensor to your Suunto watch
- added power to your Suunto data screen for each activity type
Height & weight settings
As explained in the Settings for all Watches/Power Meters book chapter, it’s important to ‘set and forget’ your height and weight.
Instructions for setting your height and weight are on the Stryd website.
Height and Weight are entered in the Stryd mobile app (for iOS or Android).
Auto-lap, Auto-pause, Auto-calibrate, Recording Frequency
These settings are explained in the Settings for all Watches/Power Meters book chapter. They are made on your watch, or via the Suunto app.
Auto-lap
Auto-lap is not available on all Suunto watches. If available, you can enable or disable auto-lap via sport mode customisations, using the Suunto app.
Auto-pause
Auto-pause is enabled or disabled separately for each activity (e.g. Run or Walk). Enabling/Disabling Auto-pause may differ between watch models – consult the user guide for your model on the Suunto website.
Auto-calibrate
Auto-calibrate is a footpod setting, if you’ve paired Stryd as a footpod (rather than a power pod) and are using Stryd for accurate distance and pace.
If you’re using Stryd for power, there’s no need to disable auto-calibrate.
Recording Frequency
Recording Frequency can be set to 1, 5, 10, 30 or 60 seconds, as described on the Suunto website.
For accurate metrics, record data ‘every second’.
Adjusting what's displayed on your watch
Suunto watches allow users to customize which metrics are displayed during activities. Each activity type (run, walk) can have different settings. A guide to Custom Sport modes is on the Suunto website.
Because Power is natively available on Suunto watches, there’s no need to use an additional app – just choose the layout you want to use, and add the metrics you want to see.
Power Averaging
Power averaging is explained in the Settings for all Watches/Power Meters book chapter.
Suunto watches offer real-time, smoothed and lap power.
Displaying power, pace and heart rate
Some of the activities in the book ask you to display power, pace and HR on your watch so that you can keep track of changes in those metrics as you begin to experience running with power.
To do this, customize a sport mode to show at least three metrics, and include 3s (smoothed) power, pace and heart rate as displayed metrics.
Moving to the next lap
On many Suunto watches, to move to the next lap, press the bottom right button (labelled Lap or Stop).
Some watches may use the middle right button or a touchscreen gesture to move to the next lap.
Additional Stryd metrics
The Stryd footpod offers a number of additional metrics that can be viewed (and analysed) in Stryd PowerCenter, such as Air Power, Form Power, Leg Spring Stiffness, and Impact Loading Rate – see Stryd’s website for more information.
These metrics are not recorded in your workout file. Instead they are recorded in the footpod, and can be uploaded using an offline sync, as described on the Stryd website.
Using structured workouts
Structured workouts are available with the Suunto 3, Suunto 5 and Suunto 9 (under SuuntoPlus) watches.
To create structured workouts (with multiple steps, often used for interval workouts), you’ll need to use a 3rd-party platform like TrainingPeaks or Intervals.icu.
It’s not (yet) possible to download workouts planning in the Stryd Ecosystem to a Suunto watch.
Uploading completed workouts
Completed workouts will be uploaded to Stryd PowerCenter once you’ve connected the Suunto app to the Stryd app (when Setting up your Stryd footpod).
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