How to use Stryd with SA

[A Former User]

@morskilav Please see above. Re: using Stryd for pace/distance source as opposed to GPS, there was a discussion of this on another thread. Basically, as @Luís-Pinto pointed out: go to foot pod settings under Connectivity and disable autocalibration.

[herlas]

Hi All,

Hope it’s okay to post here after such long time.

While using S9B and Stryd, noticed all my workouts are having the first 1 km lap losing some seconds after the offline merge with Stryd, and the whole activity loses seconds too, all other laps are fine.

Contacted Stryd and initially they thought I wasn’t waiting for the lock icon on the start screen (paired as foot pod only right now) , because all my workouts were having a consistent 7 secs of missing power data so after the offline merge they do, seems all the time that doesn’t have power data is cut off on their end.

Told them I do wait for the green icon before I start, next, they advised to do a running start instead of a standing start ( I was doing the second in all my runs) so that Stryd is already recording/activated before I hit start on the watch, so did that and it was the same, didn’t make any difference reg my original issue.

so I have a couple of questions here on:

a) Is there an opened issue regarding this delay to record power data on the watch? in this case S9B?

Stryd statement:

"Our team is aware that there can be a slight delay between when Stryd starts recording and when the Suunto watch starts reading data from Stryd. Try reaching out to Suunto to see if they are aware of this issue and if there is a possibility of a future update that could help resolve this. "

b) I have it paired only as food pod, should I add it as power pod too? anything besides the added benefit to run with power targets?

Adding a couple of screenshots, one for the 7 second delay and one for when Stryd is already recording power and when the watch starts the activity , the power is not recording until 5-7 seconds later.

Thanks a bunch for the time reading this

[Brad_Olwin]

@herlas I think paired only as a power pod it might work better. I will need to check some of my older runs, I don’t use Stryd all that much.

[herlas]

@brad_olwin thanks, is this delay in recording power there for any power meter (say cycling) or it is Stryd only, do we know?

[herlas]

paired only as power meter and the same delay in recording power from Stryd is happening, also only power is flowing from the Stryd pod, meaning distance,pace is from GPS as you all already know

[herlas]

Got confirmation from Stryd team that this delay in capturing power at the beginning of a workout is only seen with Suunto devices, so I’ve contacted support, let’s see if we can get a report opened on this as this behavior is not “normal”

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@herlas there is a 2-7s delay into what data are written in the workout for all suuntos.

Either way this is normal.

Sorry for reading this so late.

[herlas]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos no worries, it’s not a deal breaker obviously however wondered why only seen on Suuntos? A standing start does need a few secs to generated the 3 sec power avg, but when doing a running start, the information is already there in the pod but watch doesn’t see it ? Thx

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@herlas it’s not only about the pod. While the metrics are live (you can see the data update) , it comes to second 2-7 that some of the data get their initial value in the recoding.

[herlas]

This well known 7 sec delay in getting power read from Stryd (wind version) at the start of the run in still present with S9PP.

Interesting enough, while I was waiting for my S9PP to arrive, used A3P paired with Stryd and surprised to discover this delay is not present with A3P

Look at the screenshots from the info in the Fit file from Intervals ICU for runs with S9PP and A3P.

It’ll be interesting to see if S9PP own wrist power also has this delay? I bet it doesn’t but I haven’t tested yet.

Also, wondering if the either the new Stryd Pod coming out mid November helps in this 7 secs power read delay and/or the new Stryd S+ app

On side notes from the fit file , HR read from Suunto chest strap starts in 1 sec with A3P and 2 secs with S9PP, and cadence coming from Stryd on S9PP also sees same delay as power.

S9PP

A3P