If I used watches, I would run with something on my wrist to record not exactly my time, or rhythm, but my effort.
Of course speed, distance, time and pace are interesting markers, but the detached amount of effort (or energy), which varies greatly due to altimetry, opposite wind, accumulated tiredness and other factors, seems to the metric metric.
Knowing the detached energy is very useful for those who practice resistance races and face downhill and climbs, where it is difficult to know when you are too heavy – Pace will no longer serve here for anything.
Well, there have been a long time ago to measure effort and therefore determine a limit to be observed throughout the test. Exceeding it may imply withdrawal or less severe, breaking rhythm.
The bullshit calls potentiometer, or pedometer, and uses a commonly known unit of measure, the Watt. It is composed of several sensors, several accelerometers, which are used for the movements of the foot in its various axes to calculate acceleration and deceleration – in real time.
A little pod, posted on one of the sneakers, transmits this data, received by a smart or cellular watch. Operates with iOS, Android, the whole package.
(Perhaps it is interesting that you hire an audit team, as the numeral won’t stop changing, and there will probably be more interesting things than your wrist to see in the surroundings.)
Tuga Hugo Barreto made the beautiful tutorial below about Stryd, perhaps the most interesting of these products. Garmin is also in the game.
The potentiometer is quite familiar to cyclists, but generally ignored by runners and runners of running advisers. But it is precisely to these that he looks like a killer, since the effort detached by each corridor in his movements differs greatly. This variation is less felt in bikes: pedaling is a necessarily circular movement, much more rhythmic.
The founder of a major running advisory told me that Gadget did not get in Brazil because: a) is expensive (Stryd costs about $ 200 in gringa, the equivalent of $ 1,180); b) Coaches do not know how to work with him.
But, according to the doctor Marcos Cruvinel, now based in the United States, in that country “several coaches prescribe power -based training, such as cycling.”
Cruvinel is, as he himself says, a “fan” of this “crutch”, because she informs the “maximum that you can go without the account”. The doctor has been right here in this SheetSpeaking of one of its races measured in “watts” to one of the old holders of this space, my gravel pace Sérgio Xavier.
As you can intuit, Cruvinel takes serious time and performance in marathons, her proof of election. He said what it was like running the 2018 New York Mara with a Stryd, guiding for the effort.
“The beginning was frustrating, the whole world passing me. I had a clear feeling that it could run much faster. […] It didn’t take long, and what was easy was getting harder until it was difficult, “he said.
“We wouldn’t have adjusted the plan and patience in the first half, I would have broken miserably. In the end, I crossed the finish line with that wonderful feeling of doing my best. Not even 1 watt more, nor 1 watt less.”
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