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53 of 55 persons found the following review helpful.
Works Well
By Lee Abraham
I purchased the foot pod so I could use my 405CX on an indoor track and have been pleased with the results.
Calibration was easy. On the Garmin 010-00658-30 Forerunner 405CX GPS Sport Watch with Heart Rate Monitor (Blue) you may calibrate it using the GPS or a 400m track. I chose to use the GPS and it had me run .66 of a mile. Was easy and seems to be pretty accurate. The only issue is that you need to calibrate it at the pace you normally run at. For instance I normally run at a 10 minute/mile pace but since I was only running .66 miles while calibrating it I ran at a much more immediate pace throwing it off a bit.
Running on a .10 mile indoor track after 3.5 miles it was off by regarding 50' more by the end of the run. Not perfective by any means but I could in all probability calibrate it more (or you may adjust it manually) to key it in.
I don't use it running while outside, but if you don't like the pace setting of the GPS you may have the watch display pace according to the foot pod instead.
Installation and remotion is easy. The instructions say it will fit in an insole pocket if your shoe has one, but mine does not. To attach it to the laces you slide the mounting bracket underneath two X's where your shoe laces cross then snap the pod over the top. To remove you have to press a tab that unhooks it. It's very secure and takes a lot of pressure to remove it. I have no fear that it will come off while running.
I am very happy with the pod, it works very well, and is easy to use. If you want to use your GPS watch on a treadmill or indoor track for the duration of the winter months, it's a ought to have.
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful.
Works well
By NOV8TR
I purchased this unit with the aim of using it on my elliptical trainer for the duration of those times when it was too late or too wet/windy to walk/jog outside. My Forerunner 305 already accurately records distance and speed without the Foot Pod as long as I'm outside (my preferent method of exercise), and the cadence tracking capability was not all that essential to me (I'm an old man, not an athlete in training). It took assorted iterations to make this gizmo work with the elliptical trainer (Schwinn 430), but I did at long last get it to work. I was capable to get it to match the cadence, distance, speed and calories expended, to within just a few percent. Unfortunately, the cam mechanism I designed to make the foot pod think I was wearing it on my shoe while running, made sufficient noise to make my spouse agitated, and hence rendered my solution impractical. I have substituted my "elliptical trainer solution" with a Garmin bicycle cadence sensor (non contact and consequently totally silent). So now that I already own it, I clip on the Foot pod for my outdoor activenesses (which is what it is designed for), and it does add one more set of selective information points for me to use, which I now confess is helpful (cadence). I have used it on a tread mill (Cardiac rehabilitation after the second heart attack), and it works rather well. If I was a hard core runner, this would be a "must have item". In my opinion this little gadget (at more than $80 after shipping) isn't worth the expense unless you are using it indoors to aid in recording data on a tread mill. It is well built and easy to clip on your shoe laces. The instruction manual that come with it is next to useless, but it is a simple sufficient to use without much instruction if you are not too picky in regards to getting very precise selective information output (us engineer types are never satisfied with the selective information we are given!). I would commend this product to an athlete in training, or to an individual who spends a lot of time on a tread mill.
29 of 29 humans found the following review helpful.
Pretty Amazing!
By Richard Preston
I purchased this foot pod to use with my Forerunner 50. The 010-11092-00 is the latest model at times listed as SDM4 (ANT+) and is rather small; scarcely more spectacular than the CR2032 3V Lithium battery that powers it. It effortlessly "paired" with my Forerunner. What was most impressive was the distance recorded on my initial use (w/o calibration) was incisively the distance I had recorded antecedently with a GPS device. From what I have read the pod accelerometers sense and recompense for stride and speed differences...pretty amazing.
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