What do you think about Garmin's Running Dynamics?
NorthCascades
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It's interesting. Is it useful?
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In the right context they've got a role, largely about informing drills and training decisions.
Cadence is quite helpful in terms of understanding how my fueling is working. It's probably the most useful, although assumes fairly flat routes. It's essentially meaningless on my race data as they're all on trails.
Correlation with mapping data it's easy to see how different environmentalists have an impact.
I wouldn't see them as particularly useful for the majority though.1 -
They are interesting. Especially vertical occalation and ground contact time. However they are kinda hard to make any actionable plan on. They are more a result of other things1
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Whenever I focus on trying to lower my vertical oscillation (looking at the watch), my HR shoots up 10 bpm.0
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It is good feedback to see what is changing. I don't actively use it while running nor do I normally pay much attention after. I do look at all my stats after races. I have a couple races I run every year and it is interesting to see the changes.1
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Interesting, limited usefulness. I've got the most use out of things like ground contact time balance when I'm recovering from injury; how the numbers read in balance is an indicator of how injured/recovered I am on one side. That gives me a clue as to how much I need to limit running during recovery from injury.
Everything else, at best a readout of where I am. I don't see much of anything in the running dynamics that I can focus on to improve, but I see several indicators that can show better or worse fitness or form.0 -
Fwiw I never refer to mine on the move, they're for post training analysis.
On the run I've got distance, time, pace and HR on my display.1
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