A couple reps have visited my store and trained us on some products. One of them was a massage stick and the other was this cool thing known as the Milestone Pod.
I got a free one! They only had pink but that's ok, I appreciated the free gift
This thing is really cool. It's a little thing that you lace onto your shoe and then just go for a run. No waiting to connect to satellites *cough*NIKE*cough* because it runs on a watch battery that's good for up to a year and operates independently of satellites or internet connections. When you get home you just turn on your phones bluetooth and it syncs. It tells you things like distance, pace, cadence, ground contact time, stride length, foot strike type, rate of impact, and then gives you a Runficiency score. The only downside is you can't see your pace/distance/etc while you run because the pod is on your foot. It doesn't display any data in real time. I do like knowing where I'm at because I want to push myself if I'm going too slow. But the best part is this thing costs 20 bucks! That's a huge bargain compared to most watches costing $100-500.
I took mine out for a run this morning and here's what it had to say.
(I also wore my watch and it once again couldn't connect until half a mile in. I turned it on anyway to see what it would tell me vs the Pod)
3.57 miles - Interesting, Nike usually tells me this same run is about 3.1
406 Calories
5,844 steps
32:50, 9:11 Pace. That's interesting too. My watch said 10:34 pace. Now, I *know* I was going faster than 10:34. The watch dropped connection at least twice that I know of during this run. It's been bugging out like crazy lately. So I don't think I trust it's pace estimate anymore. However, I still don't know if I was actually a 9:11 average pace. I am ordering a new watch so we'll see how this compares.
Foot strike - 100% heel. Now I know this is a lie. I think one time I hit my heel because of a bump in the path. But I'm always up on my midfoot or toes. I think this error is because I run in the Newtons and maybe the lugs hitting the pavement are throwing off the pod's sensors.
Cadence - 178. This is a stat I have been curious about for a long time because my watch can't measure it. They say you want it to be around 180 and I'm pretty much there. Yay!
Stance time - 285. This is the time in milliseconds where your foot is on the ground. I'm not sure what good is, but the graph had space for 100-500. It says most elites are under 200. So I guess mine is decent??
Rate of impact - 43% low, 57% mid, 0% high. How quickly force is transferred from the ground to your legs, high impact can lead to injury. All good there.
Stride length - 39. Average distance between the heel strike of one foot. Not sure if this is good, it just says this depends on your height
Leg swing - 4% low, 96% mid. Angle between your calf and hamstring measured during leg swing
Runficiency score - 76. According to the Milestone Pod website the average score is 72. I'm better than average, woohoo! Looking at the graphs it seems like the efficiency of my form vs my pace is telling me that I could technically run faster. I wasn't trying to go fast - this was really just an "average" run for me.
This is a really cool little gadget that showed me some great stats about my running form that I never knew before. I've been curious about whether or not I have "good" form and it seems that I do, and now I know where I can use some improvement. Pretty awesome for only 20 bucks!
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