Garmin Foot Pod

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Garmin Foot Pod

FEATURED Garmin Foot Pod

This tiny foot pod is small enough to attach to your shoelaces or fit in the mid-sole pocket of compatible shoes. It’s always ready to use, and a small, replaceable watch battery powers the foot pod for a year of Garmin 80 Fishfinder Instructional Training Video [VHS]” href=”http://garminnuvi255wt.net/marine-gps/garmin-80-fishfinder-instructional-training-video-vhs/”>training. Unlike simple pedometers, this foot pod uses advanced MEMS inertial-sensor technology to analyze your movements and is responsive to stride-length changes to achieve 98 percent accuracy for speed and distance. Additionally, this sensor measures running cadence to help you optimize your Garmin 80 Fishfinder Instructional Training Video [VHS]” href=”http://garminnuvi255wt.net/marine-gps/garmin-80-fishfinder-instructional-training-video-vhs/”>training.

Compatible products for this item are:
Forerunner 210
Forerunner 305
Forerunner 310XT
Forerunner 405
Forerunner 405CX
Forerunner 410
Forerunner 50
Forerunner 610
Forerunner 910XT
FR60
FR70
Garmin ANT+ Adapter for iPhone

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  1. 62 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Works Well, December 18, 2009
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    Lee Abraham (Cheyenne, WY) –
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    This review is from: Garmin Foot Pod (Electronics)

    I bought 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 can 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 usually run at. For instance I usually run at a 10 minute/mile pace but since I was only running .66 miles while calibrating it I ran at a much faster pace throwing it off a bit.

    Running on a .10 mile indoor track after 3.5 miles it was off by about 50′ more by the end of the run. Not perfect by any means but I could probably calibrate it more (or you can 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 can have the watch display pace according to the foot pod instead.

    Installation and removal 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 under 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 during the winter months, it’s a must have.

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  2. 48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Works well, January 24, 2010
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    NOV8TR (Santa Barbara, Ca.) –
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    This review is from: Garmin Foot Pod (Electronics)

    I purchased this unit with the intention of using it on my elliptical trainer during 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 preferred method of exercise), and the cadence tracking capability was not all that important to me (I’m an old man, not an athlete in training). It took several iterations to make this gizmo work with the elliptical trainer (Schwinn 430), but I did finally get it to work. I was able 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 enough noise to make my spouse agitated, and therefore rendered my solution impractical. I have replaced my “elliptical trainer solution” with a Garmin bicycle cadence sensor (non contact and therefore totally silent). So now that I already own it, I clip on the Foot pod for my outdoor activities (which is what it is designed for), and it does add one more set of data points for me to use, which I now admit is helpful (cadence). I have used it on a tread mill (Cardiac rehabilitation after the second heart attack), and it works quite 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 assist 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 enough to use without much instruction if you are not too picky about getting very precise data output (us engineer types are never satisfied with the data we are given!). I would recommend this product to an athlete in training, or to someone who spends a lot of time on a tread mill.

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  3. 33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Pretty Amazing!, December 1, 2009
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    Richard Preston “eeagle” (Melbourne, FL, United States) –
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    This review is from: Garmin Foot Pod (Electronics)

    I bought this foot pod to use with my Forerunner 50. The 010-11092-00 is the latest model sometimes listed as SDM4 (ANT+) and is quite small; barely bigger than the CR2032 3V Lithium battery that powers it. It easily “paired” with my Forerunner. What was most impressive was the distance recorded on my first use (w/o calibration) was exactly the distance I had recorded previously with a GPS device. From what I have read the pod accelerometers sense and compensate for stride and speed differences…pretty amazing.

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