Suunto Run HR - both native and with Monitor Bluetooth Connectivity
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I have a Polar 10 chest HR monitor and have used it exclusively for HR. My Suunto Run connects to it very readily before I leave the house for a run. While running it will lose bluetooth (five times in today’s 4 mile run) and the watch’s HR takes over, (i.e., HR band disappears from HR icon), but it cuts in 40 - 50 BPM higher that the monitor’s!
I ran without the Polar 10 the other day and within a half mile my reported HR on a long slow run targeting HR zone 2 quickly soared into zone 5, staying between 170 and 172 BPM, regardless of altitude, hills, or effort.
On an easy run I can take this in stride
and just ignore the spurious data, with the realization that my reported average HR is a little high, but it gets complicated when trying to monitor moderate and high effort runs.I have also experienced dodgy bluetooth with headphones, both Apple AirPods and a Suunto Sonic where notifications get clippy, similar to the referenced post.
I like the Suunto Run in general, and love all of the data it generates, but this is becoming a disappointing issue to have to live with. Are there any viable workarounds for this dodgy bluetooth connectivity?
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was going to make a post about a similar issue I have.
brand new Garmin hrm 200. connects to my watch and the heart+belt icon shows before I start an activity (and on hr graph during activity) but it actually just uses the watch sensor and not the belt, even while maintaining connection the whole time - I take watch off and hr goes blank even when hr belt still on and connected. belt works with zwift 0 issues so I know it’s something up with the watch.
I have a sonic too and haven’t had problems with it only other than trying to be connected to multiple devices and the audio from the watch would go choppy - but since no issues.
I think ultimately the Bluetooth connectivity or something with the software on the watch is the culprit of both our issues.
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@friarmarenn I had the same experience with Suunto Run and Garmin HR 200. I tried for a week and it didn’t worked. Sold the HR 200 and bought the Suunto Smart Belt and it works but the Suunto Run still has some annoying bugs.
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@Nelson-Diogo I have the same issue with the polar verity sense, and some other person here on this forum had this problem with the Coros sensor.
I emailed Suunto and after initially giving generic responses, they admitted that it’s an issue with the Suunto Run and said they’ll look into it. It was a couple of months ago. I think anyone getting these issues should mail them too. Maybe it’ll motivate their teem to focus on fixing core functionality bugs in updates, rather then the aesthetic gimmicks they are currently pushing in updates (ice too have, but imho making external hr sensors work is a bit more important).
