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    New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings

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    • sashaklepikovS Offline
      sashaklepikov Bronze Member
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      Received Titanium today and just made one small hiking workout.

      With 9PP I thought that screen can’t be better. I was wrong. Screen of SR is incredible.
      Information screen, route and map are very bright and clear.
      PXL_20231025_113040250.jpg PXL_20231025_133843696.jpg

      Crown uses “the natural scrolling idea as the Mac does” - not very usual for me, I’ve already scrolled several times in the wrong direction.

      Not much to say more at the moment. I’ll test it in running workouts later.

      Garmin Forerunner 210 Black (ret.)
      Suunto Ambit3 Peak Black (gave it to my father)
      Suunto 9 Peak Granite Blue Titanium (gave it to a runner in our running chat)
      Suunto 9 Peak Pro Titanium Sand (waiting on the shelf)
      Suunto Race Titanium Charcoal (current)

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      • zhang965Z Offline
        zhang965 @sashaklepikov
        last edited by

        @sashaklepikov said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:

        Received Titanium today and just made one small hiking workout.

        With 9PP I thought that screen can’t be better. I was wrong. Screen of SR is incredible.
        Information screen, route and map are very bright and clear.
        PXL_20231025_113040250.jpg PXL_20231025_133843696.jpg

        Crown uses “the natural scrolling idea as the Mac does” - not very usual for me, I’ve already scrolled several times in the wrong direction.

        Not much to say more at the moment. I’ll test it in running workouts later.

        Nice screen!

        Winners Wear Winners

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        • pnevesP Offline
          pneves @sashaklepikov
          last edited by pneves

          @sashaklepikov yes, you are scrolling the content, not the screen. It takes getting used to but as soon as it sticks one wonders why it should be the other way 🤷‍♂️

          Suunto Race owner since 24/10/2023

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          • EgikaE Offline
            Egika Platinum Member @pneves
            last edited by

            btw - has anyone noticed, that the standard strap of Suunto Race is more flexible than before? I am actually not sure if my textile straps still have an advantage now…

            t6, S6, Elementum Terra, Ambit 3 Sapphire, Spartan Ultra Copper, Traverse Alpha, S7 Graphite LE, S9B Ambassador, S9P Granite Blue Titanium, S9PP Titanium Sand, Vertical All Black, Race Titanium Charcoal,
            Race S All Black - TI Canary - Titanium Courtney

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            • MarynM Offline
              Maryn Silver Members
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              Notifications:

              Is it possible in Race to setup different settings for notifications in watch and activity mode?

              Screen Backlight:

              Is it possible in Race to setup different settings for nbacklight in watch and activity mode?

              Suunto Vertical, Suunto Race, Edge 530, Vantage V, Suunto Wings, Polar H10&Verity Sense

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              • EgikaE Offline
                Egika Platinum Member @Maryn
                last edited by

                @Marcin-Byrtek said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:

                Is it possible in Race to setup different settings for notifications in watch and activity mode?

                No

                Is it possible in Race to setup different settings for nbacklight in watch and activity mode?

                Race has no backlight. the AMOLED screen is different here to what you maybe know from other watches like Suunto Vertical.

                t6, S6, Elementum Terra, Ambit 3 Sapphire, Spartan Ultra Copper, Traverse Alpha, S7 Graphite LE, S9B Ambassador, S9P Granite Blue Titanium, S9PP Titanium Sand, Vertical All Black, Race Titanium Charcoal,
                Race S All Black - TI Canary - Titanium Courtney

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                • Jamie BGJ Offline
                  Jamie BG Bronze Member @helgonet12
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                  @helgonet12
                  actually epix 2 does have ambient sensor. and like the Race you have 3 base brightness levels - 1/3, 2/3, 3/3. I leave it on 1/3 and never have an issue.
                  For sleep profile you get 4 levels - the same 3 plus and extra ultra low level you can set it at. So when triggering screen when sleep profile is on there is barely any illumination - just enough to make out the time - you couldn’t use that dimmed watch face as a flashlight or anything like that - doesn’t push out enough illumination.
                  I suspect you friend may have had the brightness seirously ramped up.

                  It is the standard version of the Fenix 7 that doesn’t have an ambient sensor - they adjusted that with the Pro versions of the Fenix. But that is the only MIP watch models that garmin have that have an ambient sensor (always though it stupid that it wasn’t on their MIP watches). But all their amoled watches have ambient sensors.

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                  • MarynM Offline
                    Maryn Silver Members @Egika
                    last edited by

                    @Egika

                    thanks

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                    • ChrisAC Offline
                      ChrisA Platinum Member @Maryn
                      last edited by ChrisA

                      First week with the Race

                      After one week of using the Race I can report some „long time“ 😅 observations:

                      • charged the Race exactly 7 days ago and its now on 15% charge. Thats with AoD, 24/7 HR, nightly SpO2 and 320 minutes of workout tracking with GPS in performance mode.

                      • recovery has not shown any drops or peaks. Normally that happened to me after early morning easy dog walks. Had none of them. For me recovery seems more ‘solid’ and closer to reality as e.g. Garmins Body Battery, which saw me down to 5-10% most of my workdays (and I never felt like being that exhausted)
                        IMG_1768.jpeg

                      • sleep tracking works great for me, and is on par with readings from an oura ring. I set my RHR in the watch to 9 beats over my average nightly RHR (53 -> 62) which works good for me. Cool thing is that the Race tracks Naps and does this very good. I fell asleep on the Sofa last week and a 40 minute nap was tracked and added to my sleeping time.

                      • the “torch” is awesome bright and really helpful in the dark.

                      • the whole user experience is great. The watch feels very easy and straightforward to use, multiple alarms, calling the phone (very helpful!) and setting up workouts, everything feels very easy to use and logically.

                      • I had zero bugs (besides a very minor one with the “fitness - Suunto 3 - watchface” not alwas updating the resources), nothing what you could call lagging, GPS tracking was very good, not as super-duper crisp like on the Vertical but as good as on every Garmin, AW, Coros etc. with multiband. Did not compare running HR to a H10 strap yet, but every run seemed reasonable, no sudden drops, spikes etc. music playback worked great with iphone and Huawei freebuds, voice prompts ducked the music and it then returned to normal volume evrytime.

                      • The screen is gorgeous, very bright, easy to read even in bright sunlight. Comes on quick enough while running, easily readable for my 53 year old eyes without glasses.

                      IMG_1744.jpeg

                      • The only thing that I was not impressed by, were the HR readings while doing a strength training. Here the Race’s values were too low, compared to a HR belt and also not as responsive,

                      As a whole I really enjoy the Race. IMO its an awesome watch and when the Vertical gets the same firmware it’ll make it as awesome too. I can highly recommend the Race! Impressive job Suunto!!!

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                        A Former User @sashaklepikov
                        last edited by A Former User

                        @sashaklepikov If the SR had been available as refurbished I would have bought it immediately, really impressive that display! But I think the 9 Peek Pro will be cool as well

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                        • General_WittG Offline
                          General_Witt
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                          Is nightly SpO2 necessary to get the HRV?

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                          • EgikaE Offline
                            Egika Platinum Member @General_Witt
                            last edited by Egika

                            @General_Witt no.
                            SpO2 is measuring the oxygen partial pressure, thus the ability of your red blood cells to transport oxygen

                            HRV (heart rate variation) is a pulse metric. with breathing, your pulse changes ever so slightly. In Ambit times, the watch would calculate your respiration rate from HRV.
                            Now this has become a metric to judge your readiness for training.

                            Try googling those metrics. 👍

                            t6, S6, Elementum Terra, Ambit 3 Sapphire, Spartan Ultra Copper, Traverse Alpha, S7 Graphite LE, S9B Ambassador, S9P Granite Blue Titanium, S9PP Titanium Sand, Vertical All Black, Race Titanium Charcoal,
                            Race S All Black - TI Canary - Titanium Courtney

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                            • Mff73M Offline
                              Mff73 @ChrisA
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                              @ChrisA
                              Multiple alarms and calling the phone? 🤔

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                              Wife : S9PP
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                              • GiPFELKiNDG Offline
                                GiPFELKiND Silver Members @Mff73
                                last edited by GiPFELKiND

                                @Mff73 yes 😍 multiple alarms and finding the Phone 🤗IMG_20231026_173815.jpg IMG_20231026_173835.jpg IMG_20231026_173841.jpg IMG_20231026_173842.jpg

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                                • ChrisAC Offline
                                  ChrisA Platinum Member @Mff73
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                                  @Mff73 “calling” may be a bad translation on my side -> you can find your phone with your Suunto (making your phone ring)

                                  And you can now have more than one alarms e.g one for weekdays and one for weekends.

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                                  • TieutieuT Offline
                                    Tieutieu Platinum Member @ChrisA
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                                    Those things where in the specs, so not a surprise (but a good one nevertheless !). SV will/should get it to with the update to come.

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                                    • ChrisAC Offline
                                      ChrisA Platinum Member @Tieutieu
                                      last edited by

                                      @Tieutieu actually it’s funny how often you suddenly use those feature, you first thought you will not need very often or at all 😅

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                                      • TieutieuT Offline
                                        Tieutieu Platinum Member @ChrisA
                                        last edited by Tieutieu

                                        @ChrisA let’s see ! For now I don’t really use alarm on my SV, but, how knows !
                                        But Searching phone could be useful for me sometimes !

                                        Suunto’s devices at home :
                                        Vertical titanium solar
                                        Suunto Race S
                                        S9pp titanium sand
                                        Suunto Wing
                                        S9B titanium Ambassador edition, A3P, X6

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                                        • Mff73M Offline
                                          Mff73 @Tieutieu
                                          last edited by

                                          @Tieutieu
                                          Thanks, I don’t read specs 😊, so when I read that from @ChrisA (thanks) i assumed SV should got it as well.
                                          Multiple alarms is nice for me. One for work days, and at least one different for exception nal wake up 😉.

                                          Suunto Spartan Ultra (since 2016) FW: 2.8.24 (retired)
                                          Suunto Vertical all black
                                          Wife : S9PP
                                          SA: Always the latest beta :)
                                          Android 13, Galaxy S205G

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                                          • General_WittG Offline
                                            General_Witt @Egika
                                            last edited by General_Witt

                                            @Egika I was asking because I read that spo2 is a battery killer, to turn it off if not necessary or in a mountain environment.

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