Experience with Stryd + headphones
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I’m going through my most recent Garmin self-loathing and thinking about trying the Vertical (again). My question revolves around anyone’s experience running with bluetooth earbuds (Suunto or otherwise) and whether you get audio prompts to said earbuds from the watch, e.g. segment info from Stryd workouts, while listening to music. Thanks!
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@Ultrarunner you get the standard audio feedback (autolap and change of heart rate zone) played to your phone speakers or connected earbuds to phone.
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@herlas Thanks for the info. For clarity, is the audio coming from the watch or from the phone? Assuming it’s the watch, can the bluetooth device (holding mp3s on it) play music but also be interrupted by the voice prompts? FYI I don’t carry a phone when I run. Thx
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@Ultrarunner I wasn’t aware any Suunto watches supported music playback. Generally I’d expect the headphones to be paired to your phone and a music app on the phone to be used for your music. The Suunto App on the phone will then insert audio based on events on the watch.
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@Ultrarunner The audio comes from the phone but requires the watch is connected by BT to the phone, the watch cannot connect to headphones.
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@Brad_Olwin Thanks for the feedback. So for someone who doesn’t carry a phone on runs, is there sufficient haptic, etc feedback from the watch for something like a Stryd workout?
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@Ultrarunner said in Experience with Stryd + headphones:
@Brad_Olwin Thanks for the feedback. So for someone who doesn’t carry a phone on runs, is there sufficient haptic, etc feedback from the watch for something like a Stryd workout?
I am not sure, that will depend on the Stryd S+ and how they implemented it. For TrainingPeaks, there is haptic feedback for intervals but no countdown for an interval and no haptic feedback for correct/incorrect zone. However, it is easy to see in the S+ App if you are in the zone or not.
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@Brad_Olwin @Ultrarunner there’s no direct Stryd workout support, you’ll need to manually create the Stryd workout in either Suunto app, or any other third party like TrainingPeaks or Intervals ICU . As far as haptic feedback, @Brad_Olwin already described what’s there at the moment. only sound and vibration whenever you change steps in the planned workout.
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@herlas Thanks, my Stryd died last year and I am not planning on replacing it.
