Stryd adds major new features

17 thoughts on “Stryd adds major new features”

1. Interesting choice of a watch to post with your Stryd update… I’d imagine Grit X would have been too obvious? Or maybe you don’t have one on hand at the moment? 🙂

   1. your wish is my command,
      actually i don’t tag all my images properly. that one (above) was hard to find but i think quite nice. just not tagged as stryd (until now)

2. Nice they’re offering the pre-made training plans free to all. Last year all access to the Stryd Workout app was going to be subscription, even those via Training Peaks & final Surge. Then in April the TP & FS linking was given free but pre-made plans subscription. Now all of it is free. If you buy the pod without subscription you get a pretty decent deal these days.

   1. yes i think what they are offering now is spot on, last year…less so. but they had to differentiate it somehow

3. Not really sure about what changed, I remember having some basic power training plans even with a free account.

   I think the race planner was only for “pioneer” clients like me, but now apparently is for everyone.

   1. these were the original member benefits: https://the5krunner.com/2021/04/06/stryd-big-shake/

4. As someone who is already professionally coached and have had a Stryd for two years, my biggest frustration is that they took away workout execution scoring. My workout syncs to Stryd and executes on watch just fine, but I can no longer see my execution accuracy / scoring to know how well I held my targets. I imagine they’ve moved this to a premium feature, but that blows.

   1. yes workout compliance is a good feature.

      Put your data into Golden Cheetah (free). Look at the CP curve. You can play about quite a bit with what it shows. You won’t get target vs actual but you will see the relative performances of your intervals (on interval runs) and you will see relative performance vs modelled and actual CP on your steady effort runs.

      1. WKO5 gives me similar but I should give Golden Cheetah a look as well when I’m after a deep dive. I’m just missing the “at a glance”, on my phone, post workout “how did I do” when I’m exercising by power instead of target paces. If Garmin would just incorporate power into their workouts!

5. As I’m getting older I’ve started wondering if Stryd factors in your age with it’s ‘Running Stress Balance’

   I need more recovery time between hard work outs and races to deal with aches and pains. I still do four runs a week but only two are targeted ie. Vo2 max or Tempo and a long run the other two are easy.

   So I’m wondering if the stress figure I’m getting is accurate.

   1. i dont know but i think NOT

      I appreciate age is a factor
      super fit 55yo vs slower 20yo…who recovers faster?

      1. Exactly!
         Thanks for the reply. I may contact Stryd via email as I can’t seem to find their live chat anymore.

         It’s not that important… I mean I know when I tired etc.

      2. you can look at recovery based on load (like stryd)) or based on heart rate variability.
         I would recommend HRV4training (or similar) and do a waking one or two minute reading every morning with a chest strap. that will give you an extra data point, you can then choose which to believe based on how you feel ie triangulate the three measurements tss/trimp vs hrv vs perceived (I did the same sort of thing 10 years ago!! tech still hasn’t moved on from what actually works!)

         hrv4training can also pull load from your strava account so you can see hrv-recovery vs load too.
         it’s cheap to buy ($10?) and really good especially if you love stats. elitehrv is a free option but the underlying algorithms, i believe, are not the same. (there are other apple watch based tools etc etc)

      3. Thanks, I’ll look into that, sounds good. I don’t mind the odd stat now and again, especial to confirm something.

         Cheers

6. Mr 5k runner,

   I was just reading a review of the VV2 on your site. I’m not a fan of new watches actually, as I think they are loaded with useless features, but that’s beside the point.

   The interesting thing I came across was the mention of training using Polar H120 + Stryd. Are you saying that with these two devices, you only need a basic watch that will display their parameters?

   I have a V800 H7 and Stryd, so if I’m understanding correctly, I could be doing that now. The reason I was looking at a watch review, is that my V800 battery charge isn’t lasting as long now.

   After doing some searching and looking for a no nonsense watch. I think the Coros Pace 2 would be right for when my V800 dies.

   Could you just clarify about using the H10 + Stryd. Thank You.

   1. there is little difference between the h7 and h10
      I’m specifically talking about accurate hr, supposedly accurate power and accurate pace. you can get those 3 on many watches with the h10/h7+stryd. go for a cheaper old generation vantage M1 for example, or even a V1. the sensors on those are irrelevant as you are effectively replacing them. who cares if the pretty picture of your GPS track on flow is a bit jagged? doesn’t affect your performance or load stats as you’re using h7/stryd

      if you’re talking about fancy features like HR caching or about running dynamics then the answer is much more complex and watch-dependent.

      yes pace 2 is a good place to investigate.

7. Thank You, glad I was thinking the same way regarding gps tracks. On the watch front I’d like something with big clear digits (old eyes).

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