Stryd on Garmin: setup, data screens and running with power

00 · Before you start

In order

This guide is sequential. Each part assumes you finished the one before. If you skip Part II and jump straight to building screens, Stryd Zones will show up blank and you'll think the pod is broken — it isn't.

Set aside thirty quiet minutes at home, with your phone and watch next to you. Don't try this fifteen minutes before a workout.

What you need on hand

Item	Note
The Stryd pod and charger	The pod has to be charged before anything else. A full charge takes about 3 hours.
Phone with internet	You'll install two apps and create an account.
Your Garmin watch	Forerunner or Fenix. The watch needs a decent battery — setup takes a while.
Garmin Connect app	Already installed, with your account active.
Patience to write down a number	Your pod's ANT+ ID. It shows up once and you'll use it later. Write it down.

How this guide is organized

Part	What you do	Where
I	Prep the pod: charge it, pair it with your phone, update it and clip it to your shoe	Phone and shoe
II	Link your accounts, install Stryd Zones and pair the sensors	Phone and watch
III	Build your workout screens	Watch
IV	Run your first workout by power	Outdoors
V	Run on the treadmill without ruining the data	Gym
VI	Fix what went wrong	When you need it

Why this guide exists

The Stryd is simple to use and annoying to set up. Most of the frustration our athletes report doesn't come from training by power. It comes from an incomplete setup that makes the number show up wrong, drop out mid-run or never show up at all.

Almost every one of those cases is the same handful of mistakes. This guide exists so you don't make them.

What's new with Stryd

Stryd 5.0 and Stryd Duo 5.0 (October 2025): 15% smaller, a better antenna and a magnetic USB-C keychain charger that charges 2 pods at once. Battery good for up to 20 hours of running.

5.0 firmware 3.1.8 (December 2025): faster response and better readings on climbs and uphill walking.

Watches with full support: Forerunner 970, 570, 965, 265 and 165, fēnix 8, Enduro 3 and Venu X1. Older watches (fēnix 5, Forerunner 245 and 645, vívoactive 3 and 4) use the Stryd Workout App.

Garmin doesn't read Stryd power on its own: it only shows up through the Connect IQ field (Stryd Zones). That's why Part II exists.

01 · Part I

The pod

Before you touch the watch, the pod needs to be charged, paired with your phone and running the latest firmware. The order matters: an outdated pod doesn't deliver every feature, and a dead pod won't be found by anything.

1.1 Charge

Plug the USB-C cable into the charger and into a USB port.
Place the Stryd on the magnetic charger. Older models sit in the charging cradle.
Make sure it's charging: a light comes on around the center of the pod.

What you see	What it means
Red or orange light	Low battery, still charging.
Green light (Stryd 5.0)	Fully charged.
Pulsing glow (Stryd with wind)	Charging. When it goes solid, it's full.
Light off (older models)	Fully charged — the orange light turns off on its own.

Stryd 5.0 off the charger: double-tap the pod to see the battery. Green, good; yellow, moderate; red, low.

A full charge takes about 3 hours

If you're in a hurry, 30 minutes is enough for an easy run. But for the first setup, charge it all the way: a firmware update on a low battery is asking for trouble.

1.2 Stryd app and account

Download the Stryd app from the App Store or Google Play. The icon is black with an orange "S".
Open the app and create your account. The process ends with pairing the pod.
If the app doesn't prompt you to pair automatically: tap the Settings gear in the top right corner and choose Pair Stryd.
Keep the pod close to your phone. Tap Continue, then Pair.
The pod blinks to confirm it was found.

Write down your username

Stryd has two different IDs: your account email and your username. You'll need the username later, in Part II — not the email. Mixing them up is one of the most common mistakes.

Where to find it: in the Stryd app, under Settings › Edit User Profile.

1.3 Update the firmware

Stryd releases firmware updates regularly, and they don't install themselves. Installing them is on you, the pod owner.

Open the Stryd app and go to Settings.
Tap the Stryd button in the Paired Devices section.
Keep the pod near your phone and wait for the app to connect.
If there's an update, the Firmware Update option appears. Tap it, then tap Continue.
Keep the app open on screen until it finishes.

Don't leave the app during the update

If you switch apps or leave the app running in the background, the update won't finish. Stay on the screen until it's done.

1.4 Write down the ANT+ ID

The ANT+ ID is the number that sets your pod apart from every other one. It makes sure your watch connects to your Stryd — not to the one on the athlete running next to you. You'll use it twice in Part II.

In the Stryd app, go to Settings.
In the Paired Devices list, tap your Stryd.
Write down the ANT-ID that shows up.

If the number doesn't show up in the app, no problem: it also appears on the watch when you pair the sensor (section 2.4). The sensor will show up in the list as FP followed by the number.

1.5 Clip the pod to your shoe

Pod position directly affects pace, distance and power accuracy. The pod has to sit centered on top of your foot, and tight. A loose or crooked pod gives you bad data, and bad data looks exactly like a bad workout when you open the file later.

Slide the clip under your laces.
The thick end of the clip should point toward your shin.
Fit the wider end of the Stryd into the thick end of the clip, flat side down.
Press the front down until you hear it click.

Press hard

Stryd's own advice is blunt: better to bend the clip than break the pod. Press the front of the clip down firmly until it clicks. A pod that falls off mid-run gives you no data at all.

No clip: Stryd also lets you secure the pod with 5 laces running over it. Make sure no lace covers the pod's wind port.

Switching shoes

Press the front tab of the clip to release the tension.
The Stryd slides right out.
Clip it onto the other shoe the same way, keeping the same centered position.

Situation	What to do	Why
Shoes with offset lacing (like the Vaporfly)	Adjust until the pod sits straight, not angled	An angled pod loses pace, distance and power accuracy
You run counterclockwise on the track	Pod on your left foot	The inside foot covers the reference distance
Watch on your right wrist	Try the pod on your left foot	Opposite sides often improve the connection, but it's not a universal rule
You rotate more than one pair	Always keep the same position on all of them	Consistent position is what makes your data comparable from run to run

Care

Clean the pod with a damp cloth only. Don't submerge the pod in water.

02 · Part II

The watch

This is the longest part and the one that goes wrong most often. Do it in order. Each step depends on the one before.

Step	What you do
2.1	Link your Stryd account to Garmin Connect
2.2	Install Stryd Zones on the watch
2.3	Set up Stryd Zones with your ANT+ ID and username
2.4	Pair the pod's sensors on the watch
2.5	Choose where pace and distance come from
2.6	Turn off Garmin's native power
2.7	Set recording to every second

2.1 Link Stryd and Garmin Connect

This link is what moves your workouts back and forth between the two platforms. Without it, the run you did doesn't show up on the other side.

In the Stryd app, tap Settings.
Choose Connected Accounts.
Choose Garmin Connect.
Authorize both options: Import and Export. Both.
On the Garmin authorization screen, under Data Sharing, leave Activities and Training turned on. Without Training, your scheduled workouts won't reach the watch.

Both, not one

Import brings what you ran into Stryd. Export sends what was scheduled to Garmin. Turn on just one and half the flow works — and you'll spend weeks thinking the system is unreliable.

2.2 Install Stryd Zones

Stryd Zones is the data field that shows power on your watch screen. Without it, the Garmin gets the pod's signal but has nowhere to display the number.

Open the Garmin Connect app on your phone.
On the home screen, tap the "More" button (the three dots).
Scroll down and choose Connect IQ Store.
Search for Stryd Zones and install it.

If installing from your phone fails

Use Garmin Express on your computer. Installing over the cable is more reliable than over the phone, especially on watches that went a long time without syncing.

2.3 Set up Stryd Zones

The data field is installed, but it doesn't know yet which pod is yours or who you are. Without this setup, it stays blank on screen.

Open the Connect IQ app and go to Stryd Zones.
With the data field open, choose Settings.
In the ANT-ID field, enter the number you wrote down in section 1.4.
In the username field, enter your Stryd username — not your email.

The classic mistake

Entering your email instead of your username. They're different things: the email identifies your account in the system, the username is the name you can edit.

Where to check: Stryd app › Settings › Edit User Profile. Or in PowerCenter, at the top left of your profile.

2.4 Pair the sensors on the watch

The Stryd pod broadcasts several different sensors at the same time. Only two matter. The others have to be paired and turned off, or they'll fight for the connection and cause distance errors.

On the watch, hold the middle left button (UP) to open the settings.
Scroll down to Settings and go into Sensors and Accessories.
Choose Add New, then Search all sensors.
Shake the pod while the watch searches — it has to be awake to be found.

The two sensors you should connect

Sensor	How it shows up	What it does
FP-[number]	May show up as FP followed by the ANT ID, or as a shoe icon plus the number	It's the foundation. Delivers pace and distance from the pod
RD Pod-[number]	May show up as an oval with a runner inside, plus the number	Unlocks the second-by-second metrics of the current Stryd generation

If you can't find both, shake the pod again and repeat the search until both show up. It often takes two or three tries.

Turn off automatic search

Go back to the Sensors menu and turn off Auto Discover. This stops the watch from trying to connect to every sensor the pod broadcasts.

If your watch doesn't have "Auto Discover"

Some models don't offer this option. In that case, you have to turn off the unwanted sensors by hand: in Sensors and Accessories, choose Add New › Search all sensors; add the PWR-[number] and the FP-Stryd (or FP-Stryd5, or FP-StrydX — whichever shows up); go back to the Sensors menu, open each of those two and set Status to OFF.

Leave the FP-[number] and the RD-[number] connected. Those two do the work.

Power meter (PWR): always "No"

When you start a run, the Garmin may ask if you want to add a power meter. Answer No. If there's already a PWR-Stryd or a PWR-[number] in the list, remove it.

Pairing as a power meter is the number one cause of distance errors. It should not stay active.

Don't pair over Bluetooth

The Stryd should work over ANT+, not Bluetooth. If you see something called FP-STRYD or PWR-STRYD in the sensor list — with no number — those are Bluetooth pairings. Pair and turn them off, or remove them.

2.5 Where pace and distance come from

This is a CMTeam call, and it's deliberate: outdoors, pace and distance come from the watch's GPS. The Stryd is there for power.

In Sensors and Accessories, choose the FP-[number].
Scroll down to Speed and leave it on the default, indoor-only option.
Scroll down to Distance and do the same.
Scroll down to Cal. Factor and choose Disable — auto-calibration should stay off.
Make sure the value below, under Set Value, is 100.0.

Stryd recommends "Always"

Stryd's official guidance is to set Speed and Distance to "Always", using the pod outdoors too. At CMTeam, the choice is GPS outdoors. Power doesn't change with this choice: it always comes from the pod.

What happens on the treadmill

There's no GPS inside a gym. In that case, the watch automatically switches to the Stryd for pace and distance — that's exactly what the default indoor-only setting is for. That's not a setup error. It's the correct behavior.

Why auto-calibration stays off

Auto-calibration adjusts the pod using GPS as the reference. Since GPS is the less stable of the two, you end up with the pod being corrected by data worse than its own. Over time, that shifts your numbers in unpredictable ways. Leave it off and the value at 100.0.

2.6 Turn off Garmin's native power

Newer Garmins calculate their own running power, from the watch on your wrist. That number is not the same as Stryd's, it isn't comparable to it and it isn't what CMTeam uses.

Keeping both on at the same time creates the worst possible scenario: two different power numbers, for the same effort, in the same workout. That's how athletes lose trust in the tool.

Hold the UP button to open the watch settings.
Go to Settings › Activities & Apps.
Choose the run profile you use most.
Go into Run Settings.
Scroll down to Running Power and switch it to OFF.

If you can't find "Running Power"

Not every model has this feature. If your watch doesn't have it, there's nothing to turn off — move on.

What applies to every model: don't keep any Garmin power field on your screens. In Part III, the only power field you'll add is Stryd Zones.

One power only

From here on, when you look at a watts number, it comes from the Stryd. Always. That's the only way to compare today's workout with the one from three weeks ago and to talk to your coach about the same number.

2.7 Recording every second

By default, Garmin uses smart recording, which saves data points at variable intervals to save memory. For power, that's bad: peaks and drops disappear, and your analysis later gets smoothed out too much.

Hold the UP button to open the settings.
Go to Settings › System Settings.
Go into Data Recording.
Change the interval to Every Second.

This setting is global

Every-second recording applies to the whole watch, not per profile. You only do it once.

03 · Part III

The screens

The screens below are a suggestion, not a rule. They work well for most of the team's athletes and they're a good starting point if you're new to power. After a few weeks, adjust them to your taste — you're the one running.

What's not negotiable is the principle: if you use a Stryd, you train by power. Power is the field in the top spot, and pace stops being the number that drives the workout.

3.1 Add Stryd Zones to the screen

Hold the UP button and go to Settings › Activities & Apps.
Choose the run profile.
Go into Run Settings, then Data Screens.
Scroll to the bottom and choose Add New.
Choose Custom Data, then Field 1.
Choose ConnectIQ Fields and then Stryd Zones.
Move Stryd Zones to the first position and confirm.

Stryd Zones takes up the whole screen and shows power together with the zone. The supporting fields — heart rate, time and distance — go on the next screens, using Garmin's regular fields.

3.2 The two suggested screens

The logic is simple: two screens with the same layout, changing only whether time and distance are for the current block or the whole session. You switch between them without having to relearn where everything is.

Screen 1 · Lap — the block you're running right now

Field	What it is	Why it's here
3s Power	Average power over the last 3 seconds	It's the number that drives the workout
Heart Rate	Current HR	Physiological context — confirms what power is telling you
Lap Time	Time for the current block	How much is left to finish the interval
Lap Distance	Distance for the current block	How far you've gone in the interval

Screen 2 · Total — the whole session, start to finish

Field	What it is	Why it's here
3s Power	Average power over the last 3 seconds	Same number, same spot
Heart Rate	Current HR	Same context, same spot
Total Time	Elapsed session time	Keeps track of total session volume
Total Distance	Accumulated session distance	Keeps track of total session volume

Why 3-second power

Instant power jumps around a lot. Every stride, every change in terrain, every posture shift moves the number. An athlete watching instant power chases the number instead of running — speeds up when it drops, backs off when it rises, and finishes the interval with a jagged trace.

The 3-second average steadies it enough to read, without lagging so much that it hides a real change in effort. It's the best balance for executing a workout.

3.3 Screen 3 — optional

If you're moving from pace to power and still want pace nearby, build a third screen with pace and cadence. It's for checking, not for executing: you look at it between blocks, not during the interval.

Over time, most athletes stop using this screen. If you notice you're running while staring at it, get rid of it — the goal is for your effort decisions to come from power.

3.4 Auto Lap

The lap screen only makes sense if laps are marking the workout's blocks. There are two ways to work, and neither is wrong:

Setting	What happens	Who it's for
Auto Lap off	You press the lap button at the end of each interval. The lap screen shows exactly that block.	Anyone running workouts in blocks — the CMTeam standard
Auto Lap on	The watch marks a lap at every full kilometer, regardless of the workout.	Anyone doing lots of steady running who uses the lap as a mileage reference

The team's recommendation is manual laps, because an interval rarely ends on a round kilometer. But it's your call. To turn it off: Settings › Activities & Apps › your run profile › Run Settings › Laps › turn off Auto Lap.

3.5 Repeat on your other profiles

Everything you set up in sections 2.6 and 3.1 applies to one activity profile only. If you use more than one — outdoor run, treadmill, trail, track — you have to repeat it on each one.

The team's most common slip

The athlete sets up the "Run" profile, runs outdoors for weeks with no problems, and on the first rainy day opens the "Treadmill" profile — where there's no Stryd Zones, no screens built, and Garmin's native power is still on. Set up every profile you use today. It takes five minutes per profile and saves you a wasted day.

04 · Part IV

Training by power

4.1 Before you head out

Check	How
The pod is charged	Put it on the charger the night before long runs
The pod is tight on the shoe	Give it a light tug. If it moves, it's not clipped right
The pod is on the shoe you're actually wearing	The silliest and most frequent mistake of all
You're on the right activity profile	Outdoor, treadmill, trail or track — each with its own screens

4.2 Wake up the pod

The Stryd goes to sleep when it sits still. If you start the activity with the pod asleep, the watch may take a while to find it or not find it at all.

Shake your foot or take a few steps before starting the activity. If the watch doesn't find the sensor on the first try, walk a bit and try again.

4.3 During the workout

Power responds to effort almost instantly. Unlike heart rate, which climbs slowly at the start of an interval and takes a while to come down, power changes the moment you change your effort. That has practical consequences:

Situation	What to do
Start of the interval	Power is on target from the first few seconds. Don't wait for HR to rise to confirm you're at the right effort — it'll get there later
Uphill	Power goes up if you hold the same pace. Hold the number, not the pace. This is where power helps the most
Downhill	Power drops. Holding the target on a downhill means running faster — which isn't always the point of the session. Follow the workout's instructions
Headwind	On models with a wind sensor, power already accounts for the extra effort. You don't need to compensate by hand
Late in the run, serious heat	Power doesn't drop on its own because it's hot. If how you feel is way above the number, the call is yours and your coach's — not the watch's

Air Power: the wind is already in the math

Air Power is the part of your power spent against the wind. It's already included in the total number you see during the run. Afterward, in PowerCenter, you can see how much of the effort went into the wind.

Power doesn't show on Garmin's native workout screen

If you use structured workouts on the watch, the screen Garmin shows during a guided workout doesn't display Stryd power. That's not a defect and no setting fixes it.

What to do: switch to your Stryd Zones screen during the interval. The native workout screen keeps counting the blocks in the background as usual.

4.4 After the workout

Sync your watch as usual. With your accounts linked as in section 2.1, the workout reaches Stryd and your analysis platform without you doing anything else.

If the workout doesn't show up on the other side within a few minutes, the thing to check is almost always the same: the Import and Export permissions in section 2.1.

Day-one numbers don't mean anything yet

It's normal to look at the power from your first run and have no idea whether it's good, bad or average. It's none of those yet. Power only means something once you have your own reference, measured by a test, and a history of sessions to compare against.

That's the next step, and your coach leads it. For now, the job is to run with the gear working and the data clean.

05 · Part V

The treadmill

The treadmill is where the Stryd gets it wrong most often — and it's not the device's fault, it's the setup. This part exists because a badly recorded treadmill run goes into your history as if it were true and skews how the following weeks read.

5.1 Why the treadmill is different

Outdoors, the Stryd knows when you're climbing. The pod has a barometer: when you gain altitude, air pressure changes, and the pod uses that change to calculate climbing power. That's why power goes up when you hit a hill without changing your perceived effort.

On the treadmill, that doesn't happen. You're climbing without going anywhere. The air pressure around you is exactly the same at the start and end of the run, no matter how steep the treadmill is. The pod has no way of knowing.

The rule

With the treadmill on an incline, the Stryd only gives you the correct power if someone tells it the incline. If no one does, the recorded power will be that of a flat run — lower than the effort you actually put in.

Treadmill incline	What to do
0% or 1%	Nothing. Record on the watch as usual — the difference is negligible
Above 1%	Tell the Stryd the incline. Without it, the workout's power is wrong

5.2 The CMTeam approach: use the app

On the treadmill, record the run with the Stryd app on your phone. It's the simplest and most reliable way to enter the incline, and it's what the team uses.

Open the Stryd app and tap the calendar icon at the bottom of the screen.
Tap the "+" symbol in the top right corner.
Choose Start Run, then Indoor Run.
Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open the controls.
Set the incline to the value shown on the treadmill.
Tap the record button in the bottom left corner and go.

You can change the incline as many times as you want during the run. Each time you do, power adjusts instantly. The app accepts 0 to +50%.

Why the app and not the watch

Stryd Zones doesn't let you change the incline in the middle of a free run. If you raise the treadmill mid-session with the Garmin recording through Stryd Zones, there's nowhere to enter it — power just keeps calculating as if you were on flat ground. The app fixes that with a swipe, as many times as you need.

5.3 If you'd rather use the watch

You can run on the treadmill with your Garmin. You just need to know where the limits are.

Scenario	Works?	What happens
Flat treadmill, free run	Yes	No incline to enter, so the watch records normally
Inclined treadmill, free run with Stryd Zones	No	You can't enter the incline mid-run. Power comes out underestimated
Inclined treadmill, workout scheduled ahead	Yes	With the workout built in PowerCenter with the incline for each segment, Stryd Zones tells you when to change the incline and calculates power with it. You adjust the treadmill yourself. Requires a pod on firmware 2.1.16 or newer
Inclined treadmill, Stryd Workout App on the watch	Yes, with the app	The Stryd Workout App for Garmin lets you enter the incline on a free run, in indoor mode. It's the way out for older watches without Stryd Zones

If you use Stryd Zones on an inclined treadmill, on a free run

Know that the power for that workout is wrong. It's not a small inaccuracy: the watch doesn't detect the incline and records the effort as if it were flat. If that happens, let your coach know when you log the session. A workout is still a workout — the problem is the number going into your history as if it were comparable to the others.

Incline in percent, not degrees

The Stryd works with percent incline, the same thing the treadmill shows. A 10% incline means gaining 10 meters of height for every 100 meters covered horizontally. Don't confuse it with degrees: a 10-degree angle is much steeper than a 10% incline. For reference, a 100% incline equals 45 degrees.

5.4 Calibration — when the treadmill number doesn't match

It's normal and expected for the speed on the treadmill console to differ from what the Stryd records. Before you change anything, it's worth knowing which side the error is usually on: a gym treadmill console is rarely calibrated, and the pod's reading tends to be more reliable than the machine's.

The CMTeam position

Don't chase the treadmill number. If you calibrate the Stryd to match an off console, you didn't fix the pod — you threw it off too.

What matters in a treadmill workout is power, and power doesn't change with the calibration factor. Only adjust calibration if the distance difference really bothers you.

How to calculate the factor

The factor comes from comparing the distance you actually covered with the distance the Stryd recorded. The math depends on where you'll apply it:

Where to apply	The math	Default value
On the Garmin watch	(actual distance ÷ Stryd distance) × 100	100
In the Stryd app	(actual distance ÷ Stryd distance)	1.000

Example: you covered 10,000 meters and the Stryd recorded 9,980. On the Garmin, the factor is 100.2. In the Stryd app, it's 1.002.

You record with	Path
The Garmin watch	Settings › Sensors and Accessories › FP-[number] › Cal. Factor
The Stryd app	Settings › Live Run Settings › Calibration Factor

The factor doesn't touch power

The calibration factor only adjusts pace and distance. Power and the other Stryd metrics aren't affected. If what bugs you is the recorded distance, the factor fixes it. If it's power, the fix is the incline, in section 5.1.

5.5 Why the treadmill feels harder

Athletes often report that a treadmill run felt heavy, with high perceived effort, while power came in lower than expected. That's not an equipment error.

Factor	Effect
Different mechanics	Running on a moving belt isn't the same movement as running over the ground. The muscular load gets spread differently
No relative wind	Outdoors, your own movement creates airflow that helps shed heat. On the treadmill, you run inside your own heat
Closed room	The room's temperature and humidity don't refresh. In Miami, that hits even harder
No variation	A constant pace, with no small terrain adjustments, makes the effort monotonous and feel harder

The practical takeaway: on the treadmill, perceived effort deserves more weight than usual. If the number is on target and your body is screaming, your body has information the number doesn't.

06 · Part VI

When something goes wrong

Almost everything that goes wrong with Stryd and Garmin falls into one of these situations. Find yours.

6.1 Power doesn't show up

What to check	Where
Stryd Zones is installed	Garmin Connect › Connect IQ Store
The ANT-ID was entered in Stryd Zones	Connect IQ app › Stryd Zones › Settings
The username was entered — not the email	Connect IQ app › Stryd Zones › Settings
Stryd Zones was added to the screen of the profile you're using	Watch › Activities & Apps › profile › Data Screens
The pod is awake	Shake your foot and restart the activity
The pod has battery	Put it on the charger and see if it lights up

6.2 Power drops out mid-run

Signal drops during a run almost always come from the connection, not the pod. In order:

Make sure recording is set to Every Second (section 2.7).
Make sure the Stryd is paired as an ANT+ sensor, with a number, and not as a Bluetooth pairing.
Remove everything you no longer use from the sensor list — old straps, other pods, bike sensors. The watch searches for all of them every activity, and that gets in the way.
Turn off 3D Speed and 3D Distance in the run profile, if your watch has those options.
Don't use Stryd Zones and RunScribe on the same activity profile.
Move the pod to the other foot and test. Many athletes get a better connection with the pod on the foot opposite the watch wrist, but it varies from person to person. Test both sides.
Update the watch through Garmin Express on your computer and reinstall Stryd Zones from there. Installing over the cable is more reliable than over the phone.

If it only happens on the treadmill

A nearby Wi-Fi router interferes with ANT+ reception. If your gym has a router right above the treadmill you use, try another treadmill before deciding the problem is your gear.

6.3 Distance doesn't match

Symptom	Most likely cause
Distance differs from the treadmill	Normal. Treadmill consoles are rarely calibrated — see section 5.4
Distance differs from GPS outdoors	Normal. GPS varies with buildings, trees, tunnels and tight turns
Distance changed out of nowhere, without you touching anything	Auto-calibration is on, or a calibration factor was applied. See section 2.5
Distance way off on one specific run	The pod disconnected for part of the run, or the PWR pairing is active

6.4 The workout doesn't reach the other side

Go back to section 2.1 and make sure both permissions are on: Import and Export, plus Activities and Training under Data Sharing. That's the cause in almost every case.

6.5 The watch keeps asking to pair

The pod broadcasts several sensors and the watch tries to connect to all of them. The fix is to turn off Auto Discover (section 2.4). On watches without that option, pair and manually turn off the sensors you don't use.

07 · Takeaways

Golden rules

One power only.Garmin's native power stays off; the number you look at comes from the Stryd, always.
3-second power.Instant power makes you chase the number instead of running.
Auto-calibration off, factor at 100.GPS shouldn't correct the pod.
ANT+ pairing, never Bluetooth.If FP-STRYD or PWR-STRYD shows up with no number, turn it off. Power meter: always "No".
Record every second.Smart recording smooths out the peaks and erases the information.
Every activity profile needs to be set up.Outdoor, treadmill, trail and track are four setups, not one.
An inclined treadmill calls for the app.Stryd Zones can't see the incline on a free run and records the effort as if it were flat.
The pod always in the same spot.Centered and tight. Inconsistent position means inconsistent data.
Don't chase the treadmill console.It's the machine that's off, not your pod.
If you use a Stryd, you train by power.Pace becomes a reference, not a command.

Power is an execution tool, not a judge

It's there so you apply exactly the effort the workout calls for — no more, no less.

Stryd on Garmin

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