Five feet and 7 inches Male stride length and running stride length

[Alejandro1]

So my fitbit zip and my garmin frontrunner both give me different distances and different numbers of steps. I wear the Garmin on my wrist and the zip in my pocket, and the disagreement appears to be mostly when I run, which I do a lot. The zip ends up measuring less distance and steps than the Garmin. 

I think I need to fiddle with the stride length settings. I am 5'7'', 150 pounds and run with a short stride. Is anyone here about my heigth and has succesfully discovered what the magic numbers that I should  enter for the two strides are?

Thanks!

[wmchapman]

I'm so glad you asked this question Alejandro (been waiting for a while for the subject to come up again).  Our trackers are giving us fixed info on distance and steps; but stride is left to each individual.  Height makes a difference for sure; but even two 5'7 guys are going to run or walk "different" unless you were retrained in boot camp -heh.

A lot of videos and advice here in forums for setting "your" stride length to get you close - but if (like me) you want precise and not continually tune, here are the tools that solved for me.  Spot on for a year now.

first you need this link bookmarked

The longer you count in your head, the more accurate the result, now walk or run, until your tracker turns to a whole value of .1 mile (ie ,2, .3, .4 etc) now move forward normally counting in your head how many times each foot touches the ground until your tracker "turns" at least .1 mile to the next distance value. Go to your bookmark, enter the value as a decimal with mile as the measurement and the number of steps you counted in the run or walked box.  Convert the calculated stride length into feet and left over inches and enter here under the appropriate (run or walk) stride length.  Uncannily spot on going forward.

Keep moving bud!

[Alejandro1]

Awesome! I'll give it a try.

thanks a lot. 

[Alejandro1]

Just one question I guess. So to compute my running stride, I run for, say, 0.1 miles and count my steps. Then I walk normally until tracker reads, 0.2 miles. Then I enter 0.2 miles and the steps in the website to get my running S.L.

Then do the same walking, in which case I would walk 0.1 miles and then keep on walking another 0.1 miles?

Thanks again. 

[wmchapman]

Exactly. Run for running stride, walk for walking stride, they will certainly be different lenghts depending on style unless a well-practiced marathoner -which I've met before; I admire their consistency which I can only aspire to. 99% of folks' actual stride falls between 2ft and 3ft as an FYI

[Alejandro1]

Sounds easy enough!