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    • AudaxjoeA Offline
      Audaxjoe
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      If like the ability to merge on long trips, for example a multi day adventure. It would be nice to see it as one file.

      The are various packages that can do this, Garmin Basecamp I normally use.

      In my view on a “race” your rest time is part of the event even if it is four hours of sleeping. I’d just press pause. If you are sleeping for much longer than that in my view it is no longer a single event.

      Suunto Vertical
      Suunto 9 BARO
      Garmin Fenix 3, 5
      Suunto Vector

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        Matteiva @Tieutieu
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        @Tieutieu hello

        Didn t you read my all args ? 🙂 it s not all about battery

        When using current pause system one can by mistake restart, terminate or worst discard activity. When changing clothes etc etc.

        Of course I use pause during normal pause. But for important aid station where you could stay 45mn it s a risk and also 45mn of battery waisted for nothing ( or almost 45 ln )

        Having the watch in normal hour mode is cool and enough for that special moments

        Resume later implemented by garmin keeps total time and total pause time of course. So you continue your race with all data ( distance, élévation etc etc ). By the way total time with pause included, during ultra race is one of major data, this parameter on screen came very recently 😉
        Stopping an activity and restarting a new one eveything is lost, so not an option. Merge later didn t mean nothing here in a race context.

        Try a garmin watch and resume later feature during an ultra and you ll see how cool this feature is

        Moreover I insist it might be easy to implement, very far from a web suunto site 😉 so why beeing so against that feature that is very cool in garmin watch for those who need this ?

        One more word about current pause feature, if you look at the map while in pause mode you ll see your erratic movement while normaly in pause, I suspect gps still on, still recording, and later the algo cuts that log part. So I guess battery drains the same as in activity.

        And about battery life we are not all super athlete or owner of vertical solar, suunto race got 50 hours ( if you also want map feature ) that could be challenging in diagonale des fous for example. So having the ability to save 2h of long pause is still great 🙂 ( vertical not solar 60h )

        Regards
        Matt

        Ps: I also did multiple grp 120k & diagonale des fous, and I found resume later very handfull and safe helping to cool down at aid station 🙂

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        • Fenr1rF Offline
          Fenr1r
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          If a “Resume Later” feature reloaded/generated the activity’s track (breadcrumb/red line), it would provide some sort of opportunity to backtrack. (As deprecated since the Ambit and much missed by some.) Might be easier for Suunto than recreating the specific Track Back function.

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            Egika Platinum Member @Matteiva
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            @Matteiva i have only done some 34h+ races so far and never needed stop my activity to then start the same one again.
            But I get you would like it.
            So I guess this idea has made it to Suunto Product Managers maybe some time ago. Priorities were set differently.

            As Suunto does not have this, here’s an idea how to make the paused state less “dangerous” for you: when the watch is paused, you can still enable the button lock, so you don’t accidentally end your activity.

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              Matteiva @Egika
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              @Egika thank you for your constructive suggestion considering existing features

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                Matteiva @Egika
                last edited by

                To add more information about the garmin implementation, resume later means when you want to start an activity it resumes the previous activity, you can not “restart” old activities, you can not start a fresh activity

                So I guess there is a “memory” slot where the activity is referenced, and once you want to do a fresh start it loads that context and no choice than to start or to terminate this.

                Just for information

                Have a good day and activities to everyone

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                  Tieutieu Platinum Member @far-blue
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                  @far-blue great idea to be able to group activities ! Would be awesome to have a global statistics for multiple day trip !

                  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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                    Tieutieu Platinum Member @Matteiva
                    last edited by Tieutieu

                    @Matteiva yep I read your args of course. I’m still convinced that saving 2h of battery during a race is a non sens to me vs speed recharging on race and race S. On one side you’ll save 4 to 10% of battery, missing record of part of your race. On the other side, within 1hour or less you can fully recharge your watch. As you described that your not a « top athlete », it also means you’ll take some time to aid stations, so charging watch even 10 or 15min seems the best option (imho achieving races like diagonale des fous makes you a top athlete whatever your time !)
                    The most saving strategy of battery is changing battery mode, putting backlight to 0, not using maps…
                    I understand the risk of stopping an activity, but after thousands of activities in very various cases it happened to me only once with my Suunto baro 9 which add very big butttons (but pausing unintentionally sometimes on my race S and very rarely on my sv)
                    As suggested I use lock button when I want to to be sure not to accidentally stop recording.

                    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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                    • AudaxjoeA Offline
                      Audaxjoe @Tieutieu
                      last edited by

                      @Tieutieu those 9 Baro buttons pressed on thier own I’m sure… I always locked the screen…
                      I don’t bother locking the screen on the Vertical, the buttons are a massive improvement over the 9 Baro.

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                      Suunto 9 BARO
                      Garmin Fenix 3, 5
                      Suunto Vector

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                      • sky-runnerS Offline
                        sky-runner Silver Members @Matteiva
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                        @Matteiva said in "Resume later" for race, race-s and vertical and all incoming watches:

                        During that time we are tired, not always 100% focus, prone to errors.

                        For this reason, I don’t even pause my watch. I would prefer to just lock it and not unlock it until the finish. If I use “stop and resume later” option, more likely than not I’d forget to resume it.

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                          elbee Bronze Member
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                          My previous watch, a forerunner 965, had resume later (although being garmin, it was quite buggy)

                          I used it once in a while, mainly during social rides, where there was a coffee stop half way. It’s somewhat convenient to be able to use your watch as a watch in that time. But I don’t see it as a must have.

                          There are other, more important functions missing on a suunto. Mainly configuration options, like specifying which datafield are on the lap screen, or more fine grained options for alarms, or vibrations and beeps.

                          Live tracking on garmin is also a nice to have. (Yes, there are third party options but they don’t start automatically, use the gps of the phone and drain the battery and cannot show the route you plan to follow)

                          Trackmode, on the other hand, doesn’t add any value for me. I train on a track every week. On a track, it’s easy to know distance due to marks on the track and you know in what time to run the intervals. Basically, all you need is a stopwatch. That strava doesn’t show a trail snapped to the lane, isn’t a problem that needs to be solved.

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                            Tieutieu Platinum Member @elbee
                            last edited by Tieutieu

                            @elbee said in "Resume later" for race, race-s and vertical and all incoming watches:

                            Live tracking on garmin is also a nice to have. (Yes, there are third party options but they don’t start automatically, use the gps of the phone and drain the battery and cannot show the route you plan to follow)

                            Live tracking is now available for Suunto’s (S9pp, Race, Race S, Vertical). Not a Suunto development (for now ?) but works well.

                            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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