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This study investigated the agreement and between-day reliability of stride-time variability measures derived from wearable devices compared to measures derived from an instrumented treadmill. Thirty-one runners completed eight minutes of running on two days. Stride times were obtained concurrently using Loadsol\u00ae insoles, Blue Trident inertial measurement units (IMUs) at four sampling rates, RunScribe\u2122 IMUs and an AMTI instrumented treadmill. Stride-time CV and DFA-\u03b1 were calculated on time-matched series. Agreement with the instrumented treadmill was quantified using Bland Altman plots and concordance correlation coefficients. Loadsol\u00ae insoles and RunScribe\u2122 IMUs displayed the highest and lowest agreement, respectively. For the Blue Trident IMU, sampling below 400 Hz reduced agreement relative to higher rates. 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