setting pedometer, anyone help?

"gary" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi
I have a eurohike distance pedometer. It has stride setting of 6ft.
I haven't used it in a while & have forgotten how to set it.
I know i have to stride a certain amount & measure it, but i can't
remember
how much & how i calculate my stride average.
Can anyone help!

Unless you are a casual runner/walker going slowly and consistently on
perfectly flat terrain, these things are grossly inaccurate. Stride
length, which you have to preset to some smoky magical number, goes way
out the window as soon as you go up hill, down hill, or get a little
tired. You'll get more accurate numbers from a car odometer and they
can be way off the mark.

Either find pre-measured courses or measure them yourself with a wheel
or better yet, estimate your pace and run N minutes. If you ran 5.4 and
write 5 in your log book, what difference does it make? You can always
find a school track to get a rough idea on what you pace will be at
least on flat ground. If you into trail running, they are totally
useless.

You can also try a GPS but they have their flaws also.

-DF

Hi
I do tend to road run on flat surfaces & i want it only as a riough guide,
do you know how to set it!
Cheers
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"gary" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi
I have a eurohike distance pedometer. It has stride setting of 6ft.
I haven't used it in a while & have forgotten how to set it.
I know i have to stride a certain amount & measure it, but i can't
remember
how much & how i calculate my stride average.
Can anyone help!

Unless you are a casual runner/walker going slowly and consistently on
perfectly flat terrain, these things are grossly inaccurate. Stride
length, which you have to preset to some smoky magical number, goes way
out the window as soon as you go up hill, down hill, or get a little
tired. You'll get more accurate numbers from a car odometer and they
can be way off the mark.

Either find pre-measured courses or measure them yourself with a wheel
or better yet, estimate your pace and run N minutes. If you ran 5.4 and
write 5 in your log book, what difference does it make? You can always
find a school track to get a rough idea on what you pace will be at
least on flat ground. If you into trail running, they are totally
useless.

You can also try a GPS but they have their flaws also.

-DF

Doug Freese said:

If you ran 5.4 and write 5 in your log book, what difference
does it make?

My math is a little rusty, but here goes...

5.4 - 5 = .4

Does that look right? Please let me know if I may be of further
assistance.

tkb

Set your own pedophile, you pervert.

very clever answer you prize [censored]
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gary said:

Hi
I have a eurohike distance pedometer. It has stride setting of 6ft.
I haven't used it in a while & have forgotten how to set it.
I know i have to stride a certain amount & measure it, but i can't remember
how much & how i calculate my stride average.
Can anyone help!
Thanks
Gaz

If you have a known distance, like a track or known distance between
road intersections (section lines in US, not sure if UK has something
equivalent), run that, counting the number of times your right (or left)
foot hits. Divide distance by number of times the one foot hits. This is
your stride length. I'm assuming this is the number that gets entered,
although it might be half that.

The more similar your trial route is to what you're running, the more
accurate it will be. This is why I didn't suggest running on grass next
to athletic field. I would probably use something like 100 m or 100yd,
whichever is more convenient, as a minimum, but shorter distances might
work.

BUT, it will be fairly gross estimate and may change with hills,
snow/rain, wind, effort, etc. But you might be able to adjust that on
case-by-case basis.

I can't help you with the mechanics (which buttons) of the setting since
I've never used a pedometer for anything.

Dot

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very clever answer you prize [censored]>

Oh, you saw that pic of me with the blue ribbon on "Mr Rogers" at the
nudist colony? Thank you, it's only rivaled by my 12" tongue.

Cheers, it's very basic with the pedometer, just a stride & reset button. I
remember having to run 12 paces & then measuring it & doing some other
calculation that i can't remember, maybe it's dividing it by something, i
dunno! Anyone?
Gaz
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gary said:

Hi
I have a eurohike distance pedometer. It has stride setting of 6ft.
I haven't used it in a while & have forgotten how to set it.
I know i have to stride a certain amount & measure it, but i can't

remember

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Quoted message said:

how much & how i calculate my stride average.
Can anyone help!
Thanks
Gaz

If you have a known distance, like a track or known distance between
road intersections (section lines in US, not sure if UK has something
equivalent), run that, counting the number of times your right (or left)
foot hits. Divide distance by number of times the one foot hits. This is
your stride length. I'm assuming this is the number that gets entered,
although it might be half that.

The more similar your trial route is to what you're running, the more
accurate it will be. This is why I didn't suggest running on grass next
to athletic field. I would probably use something like 100 m or 100yd,
whichever is more convenient, as a minimum, but shorter distances might
work.

BUT, it will be fairly gross estimate and may change with hills,
snow/rain, wind, effort, etc. But you might be able to adjust that on
case-by-case basis.

I can't help you with the mechanics (which buttons) of the setting since
I've never used a pedometer for anything.

Dot

--
"So many people get stuck in the routine of life that their dreams waste
away. This is about living the dream." - Cave Dog

gary said:

Hi
I have a eurohike distance pedometer. It has stride setting of 6ft.
I haven't used it in a while & have forgotten how to set it.
I know i have to stride a certain amount & measure it, but i can't remember
how much & how i calculate my stride average.
Can anyone help!

A pedometer will not tell you anything you couldn't learn by looking at your
watch, because stride length varies while stride rate is largely constant.
One could only a pedometer to measure distance given the opposite (and false)
assumption that stride length is largely constant while rate varies.

You could compute your "stride average" by running on a measured course, but
run that course at a different pace, and your stride average will also be
different.

I'd suggest throwing it in the trash.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

gary said:

Cheers, it's very basic with the pedometer, just a stride & reset button. I
remember having to run 12 paces & then measuring it & doing some other
calculation that i can't remember, maybe it's dividing it by something, i
dunno! Anyone?

Measure how far you ran in 12 paces (yardstick, measuring tape or
whatever). Divide that distance by 12 to get distance per pace. Set that
in pedometer. If you remember to use units in your calculations, most
calcs become obvious.

Dot

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PS: I don't think you mentioned what you were trying to do with the
pedometer. They're good for counting steps. Some people are asked to
wear them all day by their medical practitioners to be sure they get
some number of footsteps as a measure of exercise. Sometimes it's easier
for them to convert the footsteps to distance as an easier unit. I have
a friend at the office like that, and that's what I was thinking when I
answered.

But for running, unless you're running same stride length all the time,
the distance estimate will be way off - 20% or more. And you won't get a
reasonable estimate in 12 paces starting from a stop.

Just a thought.