Is there a way to comare the data I'm seeing from my runs to others? For insatance, how do I know where my pronation excursion compares to other runners? Is it good or bad etc. It would be helpful if I could look at other runs and see how my data compares.
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John Litschert Hi Seth,
That is a feature that will be rolled out in the next couple months, maybe sooner. We want to collect enough data from people in a variety of conditions before we summarize it and make it available to other users.
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Seth Miller Thanks. It would also be helpful to have some better explanations about each metric. Maybe a short video for each one showing clearly what it is, and what the numbers indicate. Also, it would also be nice to compare my stats to people who run a similar way. I use the Pose method (forefoot striker) and I would expect my "normal" to be much different than an heel striker.
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Steven Benardete I'd like to see Tim and John host a series of webinar to explain each metric. They could review and interpret the data from multiple "types" of runners as well as highlight indicators of typical metrics of both running efficiency and injury vulnerability.
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dario.gabriel.perez Webinars should be very very useful. I started using the devices and it is quite difficult to understand the meaning of all the variables, and I'm a physicist!
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Steven Benardete Khan Academy style tutorials would also be useful.
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Robert Carter re: understanding the variables
the variables are relatively easy to understand, but their significance to us runners is not easy to understand.
the significance of stride pace, stride rate, step size, footstrike, and impact G's is straightforward, and they are things we can control.
the remainder of the metrics are all things that runner's feet do that have been and are being measured in lab studies that are focused on different aspects of running (e.g. sprinting speed, running economy, injury, injury avoidance, etc.)
I've made a hobby of chasing down research articles related to a lot of these variables and here's my two cents:
$.01 Your stride is like a complex recipe - every ingredient (metric) impacts the final dish (the run), but also impacts some of the contributions from other ingredients. Sorting through the studies and understanding how the whole baking (training) process can work for you, and making adjustments while maintaining the delicate balance of ingredient contributions is kind of a 1+ year effort. The runScribe is the first thing available to the general public that lets us actually measure the ingredients outside the lab, and it is a major advance - but to understand how to use it will take both study and experiment time.
$.02 Running research is really active right now, so there is a lot of material available. Opinions differ, conclusions change, study results often contradict one another, and you can't be satisfied just with the first reference you find, and certainly not with a website distilled version. If you want to understand the metrics and how to apply them to your own goals you will have to go to the source material and persist in your efforts. No getting around this.
(and yes, a Khan Academy for running metrics would be fantastic!)
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