Stryd Insights can help you isolate trends over time. This can help you track injury, running efficiency, and whether or not your training is working as expected.

Running Insights are generated partially from your Stryd running metrics and partially from your notes and feedback after completing each session. They represent the previous 90 days of data as provided through your Stryd workout log.

Every run in your Stryd mobile app contains Insights. Here is how you can find them:

In order to get started with insights, you first need to tag your activities! Tags are necessary for insights to be generated.

1. Open the Stryd mobile app

2. Go to the 'Calendar' tab

3. Scroll to an activity you want to tag

4. Tap the 'tag' icon

4. Fill out the Post Run Report

5. Save the activity

6. Done! You will want to add as many details to as many runs as possible to receive the best insights.

For more information on how to tag your runs read the Post Run Reporting and Run Tagging support article.

Insights into individual runs can help you better understand what energy system the run may have targeted, how the environment affected the activity, and if you are recovering properly.

The Power Duration Curve insight shows your PDC from the last 90 days of training compared to the run you are currently viewing.

This is helpful to understand the impact of this run on your overall fitness and whether this run contributes to your best efforts.

Tagging your run with the 'type' can deliver a variety of insights. Below are the particular insights you receive for each run type. In addition to post-run insights, you can also compare tagged runs via the analysis tool in the calendar.

Not all run types receive the same insights, and we hope to continually add to this in the future.

Recovery and Easy Runs: This run type will give you a detailed analysis of the amount of time you spend running easy. You will also have the ability to analyze trends associated with your Easy and Recovery runs. You will be able to compare Power, Stress, Distance, Duration, Pace, Ground Contact Time, Vertical Oscillation, Heart Rate, LSS, and Lower Body Stress Score.

Easy and Recovery runs will also generate a 'Recovery' insight. This insight compares that day's running stress to your 42-day average stress. Typically you want to be under the 42-day average to truly recover.

Long Run: This run type will give you a detailed analysis of the amount of time you spend doing long runs. You will also have the ability to analyze trends associated with your long runs. You will be able to compare Power, Stress, Distance, Duration, Pace, Ground Contact Time, Vertical Oscillation, Heart Rate, LSS, and Lower Body Stress Score.

Run Walk: If you select Run Walk you will be shown an in-depth breakdown of the amount of time you spend doing Run/Walk, the time spent running compared to walking, and the difference in power between running and walking.

This information can be incredibly useful if you are returning to running and need to walk during many of your training sessions.

Tagging your run with the 'surface type' shows how much of your running was done on that surface type in the preceding 7 days. Stryd can currently not detect the surface you are running on and adjust power readings accordingly.

Additional information is available to 'trail runs', breaking the amount of time and average wattage out into the following categories: flat running [-2 to 4% grade], uphill running [>4% grade], downhill running [< -2% grade] and hiking [cadence < 140 SPM].

Keeping track of what shoes you use for each run type can be very helpful when doing a deeper analysis. It is also generally good to know how many miles you put into a pair of shoes. If you put too many miles into one pair of shoes you can risk foot irritation.

When you tag a run's RPE you'll receive the Perceived Effort insight card where you can see how this run felt compared to the average of your last 90 days of running for that run type.

Feel: This is a scatterplot of how you rank each workout as feeling for the past 90 days. You will need to complete the Post Run Report to input these values.

Perceived Effort: This is a scatterplot of how you rank your perceived exertion for the past 90 days. You will need to complete the Post Run Report to input these values.

Stryd collects weather information from a weather service based on your GPS data at the time of your run. This data can be useful in helping you understand how weather impacted your run or training over the past 90 days.

At the moment, weather data is not collected directly from the Stryd pod. Please note that indoor activities will not have weather data. GPS information from the fit file is needed to generate this insight.

The 'Time in Zones' insight is generated with every run, with the top graph representing the distribution of time in zones for that particular run.

Tap on a zone's bar to see the percentage of time and duration in that zone. Below the bar graph, you can see the percentage of your running duration in zone 1 across the preceding 7 days to help manage your stress. To read more on Power Zones visit this link.

When tagging your run as either an 'easy' or 'recovery' run, you'll trigger the recovery insight card. This shows 'today's stress' (including other runs that day) compared to your 42-day running stress average. If your 42-day average reflects your normal training (for instance it doesn't include a week off), then you typically want to stay below that average for proper recovery.