Suunto Race 2 General Discussion

Tomas5

@Jugger First charge of Race 2
Around 9-10h of excercise with GPS which included in

2h of AOD
5h+ of Navigation

24/7 HR tracking, sleep tracking, hrv, blood oxygen, …
Brightness (3days medium, other days low)

Battery went from 100% to 2% in 9,5 days.

Second charge:
After 4,5 day i have 72% of battery. All tracking enabled. Medium brightness. AOD disabled all the time. 1h and 20minutes of GPS activity.

I saw that while AOD enabled, GPS activity consumed more battery but i don’t have exact number. But it was noticable i thing. My fiend with Race S talks the same. Ask again after few weeks maybe. Overal battery is fine. It looks like with 1h of GPS per week i will be able to get 16days based on i had 75% after 4 days.

dulko79

@Tomas5 2h of AOD was that on a bike?

Tomas5

@dulko79 yes it was on bike becase without AOD it was hard to see anything. I tried it on my wrist and handle bars. With AOD it was fine but i noticed while on wrist that brightness changes based on my wrist angle. Probably based on light hitting watch display?

dulko79

@Tomas5 did you maybe track how much did the bike ride eat the battery?

Tomas5

@dulko79 i have this:
Unfortunately i didn’t write down battery status just before and after excercise. But it was somewhere around 10-12% during whole ride (2h5m) including AOD navigation, and some additional pause for around 30minutes in middle of excercise.

It was during first week with watch. I thing second week it discharge more slowly. Don’t know why. I will hope get some more rides with exact numbers but now is bad weather for whole week.

dulko79

@Tomas5 Great, thanx, keep us posted.

Jugger

@Tomas5 Thanks for the info. My Vertical is usually at 20% after 14 days of my mentioned use.

Mff73

@Tomas5
Battery % of each activity is contained in the fit file, no need to write them.
Export fit file, use any tools (online/offline) to view the content and you will see battery evolution per activity.

Tomas5

@Mff73 Thanks for info. I didn’t have idea about this.
@dulko79 @Jugger here is more info:

In all activites I had Rise to Wake enabled (except when AOD enabled). And all the time I have enabled everything possible, tracking HR, sleep tracking, notification, HRV, blood oxygen. I don’t use only weather widget on watch.

This is hiking, Best GPS, AOD off, Navigation on all the time (most of time i had map view, possibly consumes more than other views ?? Just guessing because it is harder to render map than just few numbers i think), Backlight low. Between 12:42 and 13:39 i had paused activity. It was on top of mountain and there was coffee bar

on average 2.8% per hour for this activity

This is walking activity (first day with watch so I was checking it during activity much more often than usually). Best GPS, walking activity, Backlight medium, AOD off. In the middle of walk i was for 15 minutes inside building. I think I had paused activity.

on average 1.6% per hour for this activity

And this is mentioned bike ride, Best GPS, Navigation, Most of activity with AOD on, 1/3 of activity backlight medium, 2/3 backlight low (I was testing different behavior so no exactly sure):

on average 4.6% per hour for this activity

Hope I calculated percentage correctly

dulko79

@Tomas5 great presentation. So for bike ride you had navigation enabled. If the navigation was been disabled, then battery drop would be less than 4.6 %.

Tomas5

@dulko79 from this three activites i see that AOD + Navigation is worst case, Just navigation is better, and only GPS activity without Navigation and without AOD is best.

Tomas5

@dulko79 if weather allows i will tomorrow try bike ride (around 20km) AOD + GPS without navigation. On wrist with HR active.

dulko79

@Tomas5 you ride on the asphalt road, no gravel? Wrist HR is good enough, you do not need a strap?

Tomas5

@dulko79 on the road it was good, on gravel downhill i think it wasn’t correct. But most of ride was on asphalt and it was ok i think. But i didn’t record with another watch and strap to compare so it is just by feel. I have suspition that while walk activity it is easy to fall in cadence lock, when i wear it really tight than i have lower HR (correct one i hope). I will check with S5 + strap as reference some day but don’t know when.

OutdoorMan

@Jugger @Tomas5 well I think not all users are that lucky. My watch was 42% when I woke up at 7:00 and now 11:18 it’s 38%. Zero activity, doing nothing. It’s been like this since I got it and cannot see any improvement.

tas2581

Expected titainium case and metallic lugs
Plastic body with plastic lugs is frustrating for titanium watch 🤬

Egika

@tas2581 said in Suunto Race 2 General Discussion:

Expected titainium case and metallic lugs
Plastic body with plastic lugs is frustrating for titanium watch 🤬

Why did you expect something that is different from the specs on Suunto’s website?

szleslie

@tas2581 Other way around. It is a plastic watch with a titanium bezel and back plate. 52 grams with textile strap. Love it.

tas2581

@szleslie
perfectly noted!
@Egika
Yes, honestly expected a little bit more for the 0.6K bill by the end of 2025
My “old” Race1 TT charcoal with titanium lugs initially had the same description: titanium bezel, polyamide fiber reinforced body and titanium back.
Probably, to support longterm crisis that hit all of us, something near 429EUR of sympathetic “promotional” price drop for SR2, would be more than welcomed by the all Suuntos community,
could be justified with simplified mold and plastic body in mass production, instead of huge 50EUR increase for the same watch but in plastic body.
now looking for my beatifull and iqually “responsive” Race 1 TT, and after my own real review and comparison maybe Suuntos team will be sympathetic to accept return of my SR2 TTBlack with only 2 days of use? I will be happy accept credit voucher
600EUR to spend in full range of 22mm straps, completing my gilty wishes to have all colours of S+M (two straps) kits
Doubly frustrated with same menu, practically same display (torch display is much whiter and much brighter in SR1), same watch faces, same compications, nothing new, same watch with same performance from 2023’s but made of PLASTIC in 2025
I remember like it was yesterday, 2004, upgrade to Suunto T6C. Was super happy with plastic body, laggy buttons and comfortable strap
Since 2004 at the first time disspointed with upgrade.
Was victim of faked reviews and false anxiety to have someting better than already existing perfection of the Race1!
Maybe someone from here wants my new Race 2 TT B? I will offer free delivery within EU by Fedex and -25% OFF list price assured!
PLS chat me and

Egika

@tas2581 yeah, am a bit lost with this text.
Just a few comments:

the word “plastic” does today’s material no justice.
These materials surpass metal in some aspects. I remember the same discussion, when Canon was changing from metal to synthetic material for some of their camera lenses. Some people thought it would be inferior and started to rant about it…
Race 2 is not just Race in a different housing. It is superior in so many aspects:
it is slimmer
it has the best WHR sensor available
new charging connector that actually holds
new LTPO screen
redesigned lugs for better fit
NFC built in (no idea for what this will be used in future - but if it wasn’t Suunto would not spare the extra cost)