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All objects in earth's orbit, unless they have a limitless supply of fuel, will eventually fall to earth due to orbital decay, even if they do reach orbital velocity and go into orbit they will eventually fall to earth.
Not to nitpick but the moon is moving further away every year. ;)
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I told you running power meters would waste a lot of people's time.
So QED. But where did you prove it? All I've read are critiques of Coggan's posts. I'm simply interested in whether or not Stryd is viable tech. Ignoring Coggan's assertions, where do you think is the point where Stryd's approach fails?
[Sorry Trev. I've edited as I realized my post was coming off as an attack whereas I'm actually just curious.]
They say the moon is moving away from Earth due to tidal bulge which doesn't apply to Andrew's man in the thought experiment.
I'm just ribbing Andrew because he seems to have changed his mind.
Andrew Coggan wrote earlier in this thread, "I can't see a running power meter having a significant impact on how people actually train and perform.
Because there's nothing a runner could accomplish using a powermeter that couldn't already be accomplished using a measured distance, a watch, and some common sense."
I'm pursuaded by his earlier arguments like those above.
If Sryd measures actual power there might be a use in refining technique and style to get more speed out of a given power.
But whatever the power in the end it will boil down to whatever technique and style makes a given speed feel easier.
Stryd does not measure power directly but looks at exceleration, gradient etc, then estimates power. It's entirely possible to generate more power but fail to increase speed because you are running inefficiently. Can Stryd tell the difference between running efficiently along the ground and running in a manner which wastes power running upwards too high and landing with more force covering less ground with each stride?