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    New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings

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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
          last edited by

          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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                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.

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                  • 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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                  • ? Offline
                    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
                      last edited by

                      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
                          last edited by

                          @ChrisA
                          Multiple alarms and calling the phone? 🤔

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                            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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                              ChrisA Platinum Member @Mff73
                              last edited by

                              @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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                                Tieutieu Platinum Member @ChrisA
                                last edited by

                                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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                                  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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                                    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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                                        • EgikaE Offline
                                          Egika Platinum Member @General_Witt
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                                          @General_Witt said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:

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

                                          While it does not seem to consume a lot of battery, this one definitely is a metric without use for mortals in the lowlands.

                                          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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                                          • General_WittG Offline
                                            General_Witt
                                            last edited by General_Witt

                                            Just opened mine.
                                            The Titanium in the Race must be a different alloy than the Vertical. It’s less dark and has a different tint, between beige and light grey.
                                            And of course the initial firmware upgrade takes 60 minutes to complete…
                                            Other than that this watch is just beautiful looking, not even remotely comparable to Garmin watches. It looks like a generation ahead.

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