I tried zonesense with my polar verity sense optical armband. I didn’t expect it to work perfectly but thought I might get some sort of reading on the watch (then just use it for comparison purposes going forward - ie I didn’t really care if the reading was technically accurate, just that I had something to compare with actual HR or perceived effort and see any changes over time). But the zonesense screen just showed no readings at all. Has anyone had any readings from an armband, however accurate or otherwise? I still have a heart rate belt and will eventually give that a try but I do find the armband to be much more convenient and comfortable and as far as I can tell pretty accurate. I have found that the accuracy of HR belts, including the vaunted polar H10 deteriorates significantly after a few months of regular use - dropping signal, sticking or giving ridiculous high readings. As far as I can tell it’s due to micro cracks appearing in the surface of the monitor pads. (If you have one try gently folding it back so the pad is convex - you might then see the same. I’ve gone through numerous belts).

Hello, Have the same problem, HR stuck at 110 BPM during the first 20 minutes of running, then suddenly goes up to 165 bpm which is the correct reading. It was working better before the last firmware.

@fondueaufromage For the problem #1, have you tried a soft reset? 12/15 s upper button? For #2 aren’t you using a screen protector?

@galerna do you wear it while sleeping? It starts from a certain value after turning the watch on (idk how that value is calculated) but its intended use is to wear it overnight where it charges during sleep and then while wearing it during the day it discharges when your active/stressed and sometimes charges again when you’re relaxing enough, e.g. taking a nap. It’s not working correctly when you just use the watch during exercise

Today I ran with the Suunto Run and Coros HRM together and with my Garmin paired with a Coospo chest strap. The graphs look very similar with some very slight differences as to be expected comparing optical with a chest strap but again the Suunto Run with the Coros HRM produced a spike not present on the other combination. It showed a brief spike elevating my heart rate by around 20 BPM. Tomorrow I’m going to replicate the run but with the heart rate monitors switched to see what is going on. I’ll provide some pictures after to show the issues I’ve had. I have also noticed that even when using a chest strap with the Suunto Run that the heart rate graph on the app and the summary values provided for Max Heart Rate are not always the same. The graph might show a max heart rate around 174 for example but the information provided in the Heart rate section along with the Physiology and Power may provide a max HR of 190.

I would like to see a sum of descents (total vertical) on weekly, monthly, and yearly summary. So far, I can only see the distance, which in downhill skiing is pretty irrelevant

@Hugues78fr Yes I understand, that is why I said it is a great idea, and thus i was taking it hypothetically further…very often at a diveresort or liveaboard they show you this drawn card. I would find it a great feature if i could just take a picture and have it on my wrist! The Nautic has an awesome screen…so i guess showing a drawn map or picture for me would be SUPERHANDY If there was ANYTHING on my wishlist that would be it! Tides and maps…tssshhh…i have a phone

I can confirm that too. It has been introduced in latest firmware.

@Brad_Olwin “My Plan” is Suunto’s own approach of a training plan, or is it called differently now? I use the iOS app in German translation, what is still a bit lacking…

@SirMcKey @sportsfreund @brad_olwin Thank you! I’m slowly getting back into online things…

@gipfelkind I found the cause: the Morning Report is triggered by arm movement while I’m still in bed. If I don’t see it and leave it undismissed for an hour, it vanishes and cannot be accessed again that day.

@Dima-Pursanov Let’s hope so. It would make the watch a better tool.

Still crashing: this app doesn’t like when I follow a route I have created. It struggles a bit to lock my position on the route. On this example my real position (red) and my route (blue): app is stuck 383 m from my real position (blue dots) because there was a small detour and it can’t process it. Eventually it crashes because distance is too far… [image: 1771769469318-img_9555.jpg]

@cumbrian-runner Welcome to the club --> Thread

A week on & I’ve done a good mix of walks & runs, some hilly & some flat (48 miles with 5111ft ascent). The Race has reported spot on ascent values throughout so the cleaning process above definitely works

[image: 1771754828727-img20260222100401.jpg] Suunto – built for the grind.(Nix für Träumer ;o))

Hello, I was just skiing 6 days and alpine ski mode worked perfectly. I did two sessions per day, one in the morning an second on the afternoon. I did not needed to do reboots or anything else. Watch is Race 2 with latest fw.

@ADidier said in Third-party training: @Brad_Olwin, I understand that the old operating system of the Race 2, Vertical 2 requires an addition in the form of additional applications, it was designed like this. I just hope that with this new software platform, Suunto will be able to communicate with third parties such as other watch brands (Garmin, Coros) that do not use Suunto+. In the meantime, I hand transpose my Runna plans into interval training. At the moment, there’s no sign the new OS used for the Run will be continued to be used. The Race 2 and Vertical 2 use the older OS and those watches were released after the Run. The Run OS was described as “an experiment” not as a direct successor.