@atoponce said in Wahoo Kickr Core 2 speed and distance:
@raven On my run this morning, I realized a simple test could be starting the standard cycling sport mode and disabling GPS to see if it collected speed from the trainer. The theory being that the indoor cycling mode is specifically ignoring it. But with GPS disabled on the standard cycling mode, no speed was recorded.
So at this point, it seems the best way forward would be to record the activity with the Wahoo mobile app, which does record speed, then use the Suunto API to import the activity, given that the Suunto mobile app doesn’t support importing FIT files directly. Worth a test tonight.
When I got my Race S last year, I used the app HealthFit to import some older activities recorded by the Apple Watch, basically “filling things out” to make the start of year 2025. However it didn’t seem to do all the things that would be done if these had been native Suunto activities. Right now I can go to calendar view and see back to Jan 2025, but if I go to Training Zone, my CTL/ATL/TSB graphs are “wonky” until after the point I started using the watch.
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Perhaps I did something wrong, but this experienced convinced me of something I’ve learned with other ecosystems — companies prefer sessions to be recorded with them whenever possible. For Apple, any session recorded by a third-party makes the “Active Calories” and “Total Calories” the same value, whereas with the Apple Watch they differ, with Total including BMR while Active does not. Imports to Garmin might not update their load and recovery metrics. I don’t know the extent to how Suunto treats “non-native” sessions, but my instinct is to try to avoid that.
I assume your Core 2 can send two distinct signals? If so, then my recommendation is to have one go to Suunto watch and the other to Wahoo app or whatever, then edit the “Distance” field on the Suunto session to match your app.
However, my perspective may be a bit skewed as I don’t do all my analysis on Suunto. I use the site intervals.icu as I can break out my intervals for running, cycling, and most importantly rowing. For my indoor rowing I want to look at my power (watts) and cadence (rpm) data, and Suunto cannot connect to rowing machines at all so I can’t get power there, and it guesses at cadence rather than reads it from the machine.
Here’s an example, a short ten minute warm up session I did today:
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Notice I have two pushes of one minute each where I average 171w and 177w. At the timestamp I’ve reached my HR peak of 149bpm.
Meanwhile, I dual record with Suunto, and it gives me less info, only a HR graph and a fake “speed” graph that uses the reported distance (Suunto guess at it and always overestimates this but I edit it to match) and no ability to see power at all, much less get defined intervals.
As I need to use intervals.icu anyway for these sort of things, my motivation with the Suunto app is to get as much relevant data to it as I can natively. So I wanted so the Wahoo import you’re proposing. Even at intervals.icu I don’t show the “speed” graph in my analysis as I don’t see how it can provide me with anything actionable. The session I showed above from Wahoo, here’s how it looks at intervals.icu:
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I could turn on a speed graph, but what purpose would it serve me?
