Wavy Stryd charts

Hi team!

I’ve been using Stryd for a long time with Intervals, but today I realized that something is not right with the pace plot.

I think this wavy structure was always there with Stryd, but today I noticed that the wave spans from 4:40 to 3:40 pace and that’s too much of a variance for 20m of running. I checked with other apps and the pace look better there, so I thinks it’s something about Intervals. Also notice that power does not exhibit this — and obviously pace and power are closely intertwined for Stryd.

Stryd Powercenter:

Strava:

My Stryd data. seems ok. yours is definitely wonky.

Are those the Raw data for Pace/Power/Altitude or is any of them smoothed?
Is Stryd providing sec by sec data? (I guess it does, just to make sure)

Well, I can’t tell what Stryd and Strava do with the plots, but the level of detail suggests that none are smoothed.

My Intervals plot are also not altered: the blue line is the pace and the blue rectangles behind it show the average interval pace.

I understand that Stryd’s measurement frequency is much above 1 second. Intervals data editor shows a power value for every second. I never tried to unpack the fit files though

Also, currently I’m using Coros Pace 3, but the same behavior was with Garmin 935. In between I used Polar Vantage M, but it never accepted the footpod pace

I only wanted to know if there was smoothing applied within Intervals plots.

perhaps you should take a look?

So I did. I used FIT File Viewer to take a look at 1 minute during the run:

In particular, time span 8:16:06 to 8:16:17

FIT file contains various value of enhanced speed corresponding to paces from 4:58 to 4:50. All this time Intervals reports constant pace 4:46/km