 Welcome to Film by Run. My name is Stephen Cousins. Today we are at Worthing Running Track, Worthing Leisure Centre Track and we're here today to test the accuracy or not of the stride foot pods. So we're going to set the watch to use the stride foot pod for speed and for distance and we're going to ignore GPS altogether. We're going to turn GPS off because we need a nice map around the track but it's not going to be used to measure our speed and distance. But also I have with me my little wheel just to test that this track is actually 400 meters long and we do that by measuring the inside lane. So if you look down here we're going to put the wheel about 20 centimetres in from the edge of the track and that is officially the line that 400 meters should be on. So zero. I finished going around the track and on my Phoenix 6 watch using the track run mode from Garmin I have 386 meters. So hopefully you can see that there 386 let's just try and get in the shade 386 meters ran the track so not 400 meters as we would hope. However using the same foot pod on Bluetooth on my other watch we measure 0.41 which is approximately 410 meters. This is using the normal run mode on the Garmin 245 watch. So that's a bit of an interesting result from the off really given that we've only got one foot pod different protocols and plus some Bluetooth to two separate watches but both watches measuring differently using the same foot pod. Anyway let's have a look at what we've got on the wheel. So the wheel is measuring 398.4. So what we can conclude from the wheel measure is the official measuring line which is 20 meters inside the track on lane one is not quite right. So we probably need to move into the centre of the track so I'm going to measure the track one more time and this time from the dead centre of lane one. Right that's me done 400 meters ran the track here at Worthing 385 meters recorded on the Phoenix 6 from the Stridewind foot pod. By the way yeah I'm using the Stridewind foot pod which is the newest latest version of the Stridefoot pod and on the Garmin what have I got? That's interesting 42 0.42 okay so it was dead on 200 meters over there we seem to have added some but interestingly I've already looked at the wheel and we're dead on 400 meters in fact it's absolutely dead on 400 meters. So I think we're done with the wheel now I think we can say for definite that as long as you run somewhere between the centre of the lane and towards the inner edge of the lane you'll get 400 meters of distance. So you know the track is 400 meters long isn't it really? So now we're going to run around the track at zero calibration and we'll see what distance we get running pretty much dead centre of lane one so we're going to do that. Okay first run around the track and actually pretty successful. The watch on my left hand is the Phoenix 6 let's have a look at that 397 meters 397 meters round the track and a Garmin 245 has measured 0.41 so 400 meters or so around the track 410 meters 397 the thing is that margin of error is is slight enough that see if I run on the outside of the track I'd like to get 400 but in fact let's do that so I'm going to run on the outside edge of lane one outside edge of lane one another lap and I'll see if we get 400 meters on the Phoenix 6. So I'm going to run there right on the outside edge of lane one and we'll do another 400 meters and see what we get. Okay just going up to the end of the lap there we go 401 on the Phoenix 6 401 meters there we are 401 meters on the Phoenix 6.44 this is weird isn't it so that's 440 meters that can't possibly be right but it's the same foot pod so look there we are that that's the stride foot pod stride that shows you that it's connected via Bluetooth and it says the status is connected and if we click here speed always distance always calibration factor 100 yet that watch is giving me 0.44 for distance whereas the Phoenix 6 has given me 401 meters and I am running around the outside edge of the track so a little bit further in and it's going to give me 400 isn't it on a hundred calibration so no no extra calibration on on the watch at all I am I'm a bit flummoxed now as to how how that is right perhaps what I'll do is I will connect this watch via amp plus so I'll connect the Garmin 245 via amp plus and connect the Phoenix via Bluetooth and see if that makes a difference let's do that right we're off four kilometers round the track and we'll see what we get at the end okay I couldn't resist it I've just stopped at the line on the first lap round the Garmin Phoenix 6 has measured 407 meters whereas the 245 has measured bang on 400 meters so interesting okay I've stopped at the end of the second lap I have on my Phoenix 6 823 meters 824 how is it adding 20 what so okay I stopped and it said right hang on this is ridiculous it's just adding numbers as we go 826 meters now it's just added 827 meters Bluetooth is not doing well here is it some things up with Bluetooth 827 meters I stopped and it said 823 and now it's gone up to 828 meters this is the Bluetooth signal this is not and plus and plus look we're on 0.79 meters and I did run I have to say more on the inside of the track so let's now carry on and I'll go I'll move back to more the center of the track now okay ten minutes in we've done 1600 meters but the the Stridefoot pod connected via Bluetooth is saying 1640 meters the Stridefoot pod connected via amp plus is saying 1.59 kilometers so pretty darn good okay let's carry on and we'll do another 200 and then I'll swap them over again I think right so I've done two kilometers and I've now swapped them around again so the Phoenix 6 is connected via amp plus and the Garmin 245 is connected via Bluetooth and we'll see if we get a difference so the Phoenix 6 recorded 2046 meters for that two kilometer run the Garmin 245 recorded 1.99 kilometers so pretty bang on okay finished oh dear this is hilarious okay look so the Phoenix 6 connected by amp plus has measured time of 1029 for two kilometers 1,998 meters uncalibrated and over on the other watch this is two kilometers connected via Bluetooth to the same foot pod 2.02 kilometers same foot pod just transferring the data via Bluetooth or via amp plus that's the only difference and different watches so that's it from film my run here on the track at Worthing we've tested the Stridewind foot pod uncalibrated on the Garmin Phoenix 6 and the Garmin 245 connected via amp plus and via Bluetooth we've had different results on both watches interestingly enough from the same foot pod but what are you gonna do go figure and the thing is about this kind of stuff you know you are never gonna know the exact distance you've run if you're in a race on a track you're gonna be weaving around people you might have to move quite far out into lane three to get past people at the end of the day the result for your race is gonna say 400 meters or 800 meters or 1500 meters whatever it is but the actual distance that you've run might be completely different it doesn't matter according to the official race results and according to your PB you've run 400 meters around the track regardless so there we are queued off really to the stride foot pod even though even though we've got some odd results in general you know it looks like the stride foot pod on this 400 meter track has performed very well indeed there we go take care thanks for watching see you for another epic film my run adventure not that this has been particularly epic but there we are next time bye bye