SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.

Brad_Olwin

@Inge-Nallsson Thanks for the link, that was interesting! You might be amused with this quote from the Garmin post "At the Suunto forum (in the almost 500 posts thread concerning ZS) one Moderator, who had betatested the app, described how he had ‘run’ “3 4300 m peaks one day after another for 3 consecutive days” where the post analysis measured AeT, from day one to day three, had dropped 22 beats (!) due to fatigue. " That was me.
For you and @Arju-Ambin my longest wearing of the Suunto belt is 40h, the longest ultra I have done. I have zero chafing with the Suunto belt because the puck is so small. However, I bought an HRM Pro on sale because I wanted two HR channels at times when testing. I cannot wear this for more than a couple of hours running as @Inge-Nallsson states, the rectangular sensor is very close the the skin and large causing chafing. So, I stick with the Suunto belt. Over the last few years I am exercising about 600-700h, most with the belt and find that the belt itself lasts about 1.5y to a max of 2y before it breaks down from sweat and washing. That is not too bad as they are about $30 US to replace. I am using the same sensor I purchased with my Ambit3Peak so those last forever as far as I am concerned. +1 for the Suunto belt from me.

Arju Ambin

@Brad_Olwin Woaw, that’s a great testimony towards the Suunto belt. I’m preparing towards my first half and also a full marathon. Your usage is positively insane!!! Hope to get those kind of levels at some point. Comfort will be importance in the longer runs so I’m leaning toward the Suunto belt.

@Inge-Nallsson Tack så mycket! (Thank you very much!). Your posts in the Garmin forum was an interesting read and very useful so thank you. Great to hear from a fellow Swede.

Nice to hear about both of your experiences and that you’ve also tested other brands. Will get my hands on a Suunto belt at some point in a hopefully near future.

Inge Nallsson

@Brad_Olwin A testimonial of 40 hours without chafing is hard to gainsay! I suspected it was a winner in the chafing department when it after 70 minutes only had left weak indentations in the skin, like any elastic band does. As for Garmin HRMs, I’ve been forced to use the bicycle tubing modification with them all, even the ones with the built-in pod, where instead the belt itself has been ridgid and sharpish at the front. In expensive Sweden the Suunto belt (including pod) was a mere ca 70 $US. That’s about half a pair of running shoes, of which I grind down two per year. So not a large expense, considering.

@Arju-Ambin Throw me a PM with date and time of your HM, and I’ll then do a 21.1 km ‘sympathy’ training run with you. I’ve only raced once in my running life, and that was a HM. Very interesting experience effort-wise.

Brad_Olwin

@Arju-Ambin Good luck with your training and racing!

VoiGAS

@Brad_Olwin Do you now how much longer a Race or Race S battery will run if you use a belt instead of OHR?

Brad_Olwin

@VoiGAS No, my battery life estimates using the belt on longer activities show typically at the stated spec or greater. So for me using a belt and on maps some of the time I know I will get at least the stated spec. On some longer trail runs with the Vertical Solar my battery estimates have been 85-92h.

Mauerwegler

@Inge-Nallsson said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

In expensive Sweden the Suunto belt (including pod) was a mere ca 70 $US.

I think that is similar to the price in Germany, 80 € with pod (and 40 € for a replacement belt without pod). Recently, it was 60 € and 30 € on suunto.com – just before belts regained popularity because of ZoneSense.

Luis Andés Olmedo

Update

Days since last charge: 21 (3 weeks)
Remaining Batt: 27%
GPS use: 12h45m
Activity without GPS: 2h

Awesome

Arju Ambin

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo out of curiosity, how long did you manage to get it run?
I’ve had ohr and sleep tracking turned on and I needed to charge it today. It’s been 8 days and 20h.
Today after the watch has charged to 100% I’m turning ohr and sleep tracking off.

Luis Andés Olmedo

@Arju-Ambin said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo out of curiosity, how long did you manage to get it run?
I’ve had ohr and sleep tracking turned on and I needed to charge it today. It’s been 8 days and 20h.
Today after the watch has charged to 100% I’m turning ohr and sleep tracking off.

I charged it two days later with two hours more of GPS (one trail running activity using map and navigation). Battery was at 2%.

Arju Ambin

@Luis-Andés-Olmedo that’s awesome! I’ve turned of 24/7 measurements and will keep my eyes on battery life according to my usage. Will turn on ohr when exercising to make it as realistic as possible. At some point I want to test with a Suunto hr belt. That’ll wait for the future. Awesome to hear your experience and stats and thank you for sharing!

Audaxjoe

@Arju-Ambin you don’t need to turn on OHR when exercising if 24/7 HR is disabled. It will come on automatically.

You can turn OHR off if you want but by default it is on.

Arju Ambin

@Audaxjoe Awesome! That makes sense! Will test it out during workout tomorrow. Thanks for the heads-up.

Luis Andés Olmedo

@Audaxjoe said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

@Arju-Ambin you don’t need to turn on OHR when exercising if 24/7 HR is disabled. It will come on automatically.

Correct! that is my config: 24/7 OHR Off. The OHR automatically turns on when I start an activity.