Lokiwthor wrote:
Chris, Thanks for the reply. As for the stride sensor - give the user the option of pulling distance and pace from either the v800 or the stride sensor. In my experience using my RCX5, the calibration on the foot pod was worthless. My stride length varies depending upon my speed. That's why I want the data from the gps - it's more accurate. As for telling me to use the manual setting - this is one more piece of evidence the v800 was released with partially-developed software. Why offer an automatic setting if it doesn't work? How do I get the automatic calibration to work? Like I said, manual calibration is worthless because my stride length varies. I tried it multiple times on the RCX5 on a treadmill and outside and never received an accuracy closer than 10%.I second that comment on footpods. I have a long history of failing to calibrate either Garmin or Polar footpods. If you change your pace, e.g. endurance vs interval, or the nature of the terrain (e.g. hard "street run" vs soft "forest run" surface), then you would need to recalibrate each time. Impossible to do. Even exactly same workout on same exact terrain at same exact pace the next day would give different results.
So, footpods being better might have been true at one point in time. But GPS, at least the recent ones, are now much more accurate for pacing. So, I am delighted to see that polar is considering offering the choice of GPS vs footpod.
Chris@Polar wrote:
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So, same question ... bug (if so, when fixed) or faulty device ? I would really appreciate help and solutions for those two issues.
Shoot me an email, we'd love to look at some of the data and figure out what's going on. chris.zoller@polar.com
I guess that this part of your reply to @Lokiwthor was in fact for my post. I will shoot you an email and share any data you would need to get those two issues fixed.
Many thanks,
Jef