Manual vs Automatic Stride Length

[Houstonnick]

I’ve read some posts where people set their stride length to zero and the Blaze created an automatic stride length using an algorithm based on your height. Has anybody tried this?  Is it more accurate than using a manually inputted stride length?  Blaze's inaccuracy is so frustrating.

[Rich_Laue]

Only if you are built and function as the average person of your age, gender, weight and size. In general average means just that, and is not specific to any one person, maybe even nobody, it should however be close.

As for manually calculating the stride. I did this over a five day period with the idea that all days will vary a lilttle, but by adding the total distance and steps over the 5 test walks I'll get an average. True this average might not be spot on but should be close because it is based on only me.

[Houstonnick]

Which method did you use to test your distance and steps

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Sinerely,

Nick

[Rich_Laue]

First i took a 500 step walk with the tracker on recording mode, counting every left foot in my head.. When i hit 1000 i stopped and looked at the display, the count was within 20 of 1000(left foot count times two equals left plus right foot counts). I now k ow the tracker is counting. 

Of course a step count of 100 could be used but for my tracker it seems those 10-20 steps are lost in the first 100 steps, i used 500 and 1000 steps to confirm. 

Step two

take a walk of a known distance while the tracker is in tracking mode.. Use a running track, the distance between goal posts(300 feet), a straight road with distance calculated with Google maps. 

Second option, take a walk using the gps tracking function of the fitbit app. 

Either way you will have distance and steps walked.