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Garmin footpod

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controversial Nov 2012 11:48am, 23 Nov 2012 10073 posts	0 controversial I am thinking of getting a foot pod to go with my garmin. Some questions: * can i have the foot pod on just for the cadence and get the distance and speed from GPS? * is it any good at tracking cadence?
jog-on Nov 2012 11:58am, 23 Nov 2012 534 posts	0 jog-on I have a footpod and you can set it to favour GPS for speed and distance when there is a signal and it will revert to the footbpod when there is no GPS such as indoors on a treadmill MIne picks up cadence no problem and its handy to get stats from a treadmill workout too. Hope that helps
BanjoBax Nov 2012 12:07pm, 23 Nov 2012 3835 posts	0 BanjoBax sometimes use the old footpod from my dead FR50 with my 310xt to keep an eye on cadence in-flight, works great
Ultracat Nov 2012 12:11pm, 23 Nov 2012 10110 posts	0 Ultracat I have one and its good for checking cadence. Not used it on a treadmill. Remember to double the number given as it only counts the foot it's on.
Norrin Radd Jan 2013 10:37pm, 31 Jan 2013 1863 posts	0 Norrin Radd Does anyone have a footpod they want to get rid of?
p^2 Feb 2013 12:36am, 1 Feb 2013 17 posts	0 p^2 Cadence - tracks it well for running. But when my 310XT is set up for cycling, it doesn't detect the footpod. For cycling cadence I have to use the cycling kit. There is a setting to choose speed from footpod or GPS (on the 310XT at least). The speed from GPS is very noisy compared to speed from footpod - when doing pace intervals I get much better results using footpod speed. This is as expected, because the GPS speed is differentiated position (thus amplifying any high-frequency noise in the position signal), whereas the footpod speed is obtained from the acceleration signal by integration, which attenuates high-frequency noise.

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