Zwift RunPod

I bought this as it seemed to be the cheapest way to get treadmill runs onto Zwift. It turns out its so much more.The Zwift bit works great with my iPad, really easy to connect. All it needs to transmit is running speed via Bluetooth.What surprised me is the additional metrics.I have run outdoors a few times and when synced to my iPhone post run it gives me Foot Strike details, Cadence, Ground Contact Time, Rate of Impact, Stride Length and Leg Swing along with tips on what is deemed good for these metrics. It combines these to give you a 'Runficiency' (Trademarked) plus bunch of graphs. This is about performance improvements and injury prevention.It also connects to my Garmin Running Watch (Fenix 5) whilst running although I have yet to investigate what it is transmitting.For less than £35, it's an incredible piece of technology.App is slightly buggy but I'm sure they will fix this.

It’s not perfectly accurate but very close. It’s a great item to turn your non Bluetooth treadmill into a fun game worth every penny

Love this pod! I bought it to try out Zwift running. Worked first time, no hitches. But I have also run outdoors and I cant believe the amount of data this 'cheap' little pod collects. It's not as detailed as a (£250) Stryd pod but at the faction of of the cost, it's brilliant.The app (iOS) collects the data at the end of the run, works out when was I was walking to the start and then when I started actually running, then distance, cadence, ground contact, foot strike, back lift, etc are reported and it gives feedback on how to improve them. Any data junkie will be right at home. You can also choose to upload the run to Strava, if you like, but this dose't have GPS so there won't be a 'trail' map.I dropped one star because, Milestone are gently leading you to buy one pod of each pair of shoes, you register the pod as being fitted to a make/model of shoe, so swapping to another pair of kicks feels like cheating somehow? Perfectly possible though it is.

When I bought my first MilestonePod, I was interested in seeing the additional metrics it provides to give information about your running style, such as cadence, stride length, and foot strike. Tracking shoe mileage, its original purpose, was not something I felt I needed. However, I was so impressed with how easy it was to use, other than swapping between shoes, I bought a second, so now I just leave it in place. This helps with calibration, as moving between shoes can change the distance calculations (my previous Nike pod was the same),The firmware was recently updated so it can be used as a real-time Bluetooth sensor with a compatible watch. I had been considering a GPS watch for a while, and this was just the push I needed. I bought a Polar M400, which can be configured to take speed and distance from the pod while still tracking location with GPS, and can display cadence and stride length as I am running - I am trying to improve my style to reduce injuries, as I think I overstride.I contacted MilestonePod last week with a query about using the pod with my new watch, and found them amazingly helpful. One of the co-founders, Meir, has the same watch, and discussed the issue with me. He provided a firmware update to fix a minor problem within a few days. You rarely experience that level of service from a huge brand.The price has increased recently, but it is still a bargain compared with the Polar Stride Sensor.

The very first thing you need to do is download the Milestone App, connect to the pod and update firmware; it fixes a BLE issue.I used an iPad for testing. Running Zwift it took just a few seconds for Zwift to find the pod. Next thing to do is click the spanner icon and calibrate it with your treadmill; it's a 3-speed stage calibration. Then you are set to go.I have found the speed runs a bit up and down from the required speed (I use it for workouts). You need t get out of the habit of 'chasing' the speed with the treadmill and if you are close to the required speed and it is fairly steady, then stay at that speed. I ignore matching the speed with the treadmill; just use the up/down speed controls to get to the speed zwift wants. I find the higher speeds 9kph+ much more accurate than the lower ones, where the avatar often stops or walks.Footpods are a great concept and as a side hobby for me (I'm a cyclist) it's good enough. For a all out runner, it will possibly be an irritant; maybe need investment in the expensive stryd or wait until TreadTracker from RunSocial is available in the UK .

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I have two of these, one for my gym shoes and another for my running shoes.For the gym I use with the Runsocial app, which makes treadmill runs a lot more interesting, would be good if Runsocial app also incorporated all of the good data like cadence etc. from the pod, but that's not Milestones fault.For outdoor runs I now get loads of data on running form like cadence, stride length and ground contact time. Currently I'm focusing on my cadence which is too slow. It's a shame that currently there is no app that can show this data on my Apple Watch so I could make some corrections in run and have to wait for the download at the end. Apps like MapMyRun work with the pod well, but it's not shown on their watch app. I believe Milestone are working on their own iOS and Watch App and this could really get the most out of the hardware.Overall is a relatively cheap and I believe fairly accurate way to improve running form, track shoe distance etc. and I'd recommend.