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    SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.

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    • Arju AmbinA Offline
      Arju Ambin Silver Members @Brad_Olwin
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      @Brad_Olwin Woaw, that’s a great testimony towards the Suunto belt. I’m preparing towards my first half and also a full marathon. Your usage is positively insane!!! Hope to get those kind of levels at some point. Comfort will be importance in the longer runs so I’m leaning toward the Suunto belt.

      @Inge-Nallsson Tack så mycket! (Thank you very much!). Your posts in the Garmin forum was an interesting read and very useful so thank you. Great to hear from a fellow Swede.

      Nice to hear about both of your experiences and that you’ve also tested other brands. Will get my hands on a Suunto belt at some point in a hopefully near future.

      Suunto Race

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      • Inge NallssonI Offline
        Inge Nallsson @Brad_Olwin
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        @Brad_Olwin A testimonial of 40 hours without chafing is hard to gainsay! I suspected it was a winner in the chafing department when it after 70 minutes only had left weak indentations in the skin, like any elastic band does. As for Garmin HRMs, I’ve been forced to use the bicycle tubing modification with them all, even the ones with the built-in pod, where instead the belt itself has been ridgid and sharpish at the front. In expensive Sweden the Suunto belt (including pod) was a mere ca 70 $US. That’s about half a pair of running shoes, of which I grind down two per year. So not a large expense, considering.

        @Arju-Ambin Throw me a PM with date and time of your HM, and I’ll then do a 21.1 km ‘sympathy’ training run with you. I’ve only raced once in my running life, and that was a HM. Very interesting experience effort-wise.

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          Brad_Olwin Moderator @Arju Ambin
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          @Arju-Ambin Good luck with your training and racing!

          Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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            VoiGAS Silver Members @Brad_Olwin
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            @Brad_Olwin Do you now how much longer a Race or Race S battery will run if you use a belt instead of OHR?


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              Brad_Olwin Moderator @VoiGAS
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              @VoiGAS No, my battery life estimates using the belt on longer activities show typically at the stated spec or greater. So for me using a belt and on maps some of the time I know I will get at least the stated spec. On some longer trail runs with the Vertical Solar my battery estimates have been 85-92h.

              Vector/T6c/Ambit 3 Peak/S5 Copper/S3/S7 Ti/S9 baro Ti/S9P Ti/S9PP Ti/Vertical Ti/Race Ti/RaceS/Ocean/Wing

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                Mauerwegler @Inge Nallsson
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                @Inge-Nallsson said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

                In expensive Sweden the Suunto belt (including pod) was a mere ca 70 $US.

                I think that is similar to the price in Germany, 80 € with pod (and 40 € for a replacement belt without pod). Recently, it was 60 € and 30 € on suunto.com – just before belts regained popularity because of ZoneSense. 🤣

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                  Luis Andés Olmedo Bronze Member
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                  Update

                  Days since last charge: 21 (3 weeks)
                  Remaining Batt: 27%
                  GPS use: 12h45m
                  Activity without GPS: 2h

                  Awesome

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                    Arju Ambin Silver Members @Luis Andés Olmedo
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                    @Luis-Andés-Olmedo out of curiosity, how long did you manage to get it run?
                    I’ve had ohr and sleep tracking turned on and I needed to charge it today. It’s been 8 days and 20h.
                    Today after the watch has charged to 100% I’m turning ohr and sleep tracking off.

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                      Luis Andés Olmedo Bronze Member @Arju Ambin
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                      @Arju-Ambin said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

                      @Luis-Andés-Olmedo out of curiosity, how long did you manage to get it run?
                      I’ve had ohr and sleep tracking turned on and I needed to charge it today. It’s been 8 days and 20h.
                      Today after the watch has charged to 100% I’m turning ohr and sleep tracking off.

                      I charged it two days later with two hours more of GPS (one trail running activity using map and navigation). Battery was at 2%.

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                        Arju Ambin Silver Members @Luis Andés Olmedo
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                        @Luis-Andés-Olmedo that’s awesome! I’ve turned of 24/7 measurements and will keep my eyes on battery life according to my usage. Will turn on ohr when exercising to make it as realistic as possible. At some point I want to test with a Suunto hr belt. That’ll wait for the future. Awesome to hear your experience and stats and thank you for sharing!

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                          Audaxjoe @Arju Ambin
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                          @Arju-Ambin you don’t need to turn on OHR when exercising if 24/7 HR is disabled. It will come on automatically.

                          You can turn OHR off if you want but by default it is on.

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                            Arju Ambin Silver Members @Audaxjoe
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                            @Audaxjoe Awesome! That makes sense! Will test it out during workout tomorrow. Thanks for the heads-up.

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                              Luis Andés Olmedo Bronze Member @Audaxjoe
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                              @Audaxjoe said in SUUNTO RACE. Real battery life as sports watch.:

                              @Arju-Ambin you don’t need to turn on OHR when exercising if 24/7 HR is disabled. It will come on automatically.

                              Correct! that is my config: 24/7 OHR Off. The OHR automatically turns on when I start an activity.

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