Improve Your Form
The COROS POD provides several great metrics to improve your running form. Some like Cadence and Stride length are offered on our GPS watches, while the POD also introduced new stats such as Stride Height, Ground Contact Time and Left/Right Balance. Elite Runners run faster and longer, because they spend less time on the ground, while using nearly all of their energy to move them forward rather than into the air. By staying closer to the ground, and having quicker steps, they also typically have a higher cadence (180 Strides or more per minute). A left/right balance that deviates too far from 50/50 can indicate an impending injury. Use these data points to improve your form, avoiding costly running injuries.