Inertial footpod
Device for tracking running measurements
An inertial footpod is a device used to track running measurements such as speed, distance travelled, pace, etc., which would generally only be available on treadmills or with a GPS unit.
This device is usually small and attaches to a runner's foot. It uses one or more accelerometers and processes several times a second to compute speed.
One example is the foot pod employed by the Polar S625x running computer.
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- Garmin Foot Pod.jpg by Masao Kamosawa, CC BY-SA 2.0
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