Rest Timer feature
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I realized that Manual Intervals - Pace S+ app does almost exactly what I want. I know that it is intended for short intervals but I wonder if it may be useful during an ultra race as well. It does have a rest timer feature where it tracks time between intervals. Intervals are started and stopped manually by pressing the lap button and, most importantly, that works even when the lap button is pressed while on any data screen, so I don’t have to switch to the app for this feature to work.
In my case, an interval would be a part of the race between aid stations. The only one thing that is missing is automatically switching to the app data screen when an internal ends and the rest is activated. That would be nice!
Additionally, this app will give me splits for the laps between aid stations and the lap pace. That is nice because I can remove the standard lap screen and have something more useful instead. Having only 3 custom data screens is very limiting, so if I can see some of the data fields in an S+ app, that is a plus.
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with one of the recent firmware updates, there now is a tooth that is active when paused or autopaused, showing you exactly the time for the current pause.
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@Egika Pausing or auto-pausing during a race is not an acceptable solution. In fact I never pause because there is a good chance I’d forget to unpause. And an auto-pause works horribly bad when running on steep terrain, so I never use that either.
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understand
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@sky-runner said in Rest Timer feature:
@Egika Pausing or auto-pausing during a race is not an acceptable solution. In fact I never pause because there is a good chance I’d forget to unpause. And an auto-pause works horribly bad when running on steep terrain, so I never use that either.
This is likely a niche issue no matter what we think:) The S+ app Ultra Walking pretty much solves this entire issue…yes we can only have 2 S+ apps so that creates another problem. While I would like this too, I don’t see this as a high priority item.
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@Brad_Olwin said in Rest Timer feature:
The S+ app Ultra Walking pretty much solves this entire issue
No it doesn’t. I am not that interested in knowing how much time in total I ran, walked, and stopped. I am looking for an information during the race of how much time I am spending in an aid station while I am there as a reminder to keep moving. Another benefit is having splits afterwards as laps - there two times of splits - splits between aid stations and rest splits while at aid station. The way Garmin rest timer solves that is by showing a small popup with the elapsed time after I press the lap button. However the rest timer doesn’t stop the elapsed time, so that isn’t a pause.
As I said above, Manual Intervals S+ app is actually much closer to what I need than Ultra Walking app.
Another benefit of Manual Intervals app is that it doubles as an additional data screen that shows the current lap distance, time, and pace. Considering that Suunto watches have only 3 configurable data screen, this is a nice addition.
What I said above, is that it doesn’t have a popup to display the rest timer regardless of what data screen I am on, but otherwise it is a close match.
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@sky-runner Why don’t you simply set up a personnal sport mode with a screen with whole exercice, and another one with current lap duration (and other metrics) ? Just disable autolap, and then pressing the lap button at the enter of the aid station and again at exit ? That’s my configuration on ultra trails.
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@Tieutieu I do that as well.
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@Tieutieu said in Rest Timer feature:
Why don’t you simply set up a personnal sport mode with a screen with whole exercice, and another one with current lap duration (and other metrics) ? Just disable autolap, and then pressing the lap button at the enter of the aid station and again at exit ? That’s my configuration on ultra trails.
I have that, or at least I tried. I have not very good eyesight now that I am in my mid-50s, and Suunto allows only 3 custom screens. I can really have more than 4 fields per screen. Since I have to have an entire screen for vertical metrics, including vertical speed, that leaves only 2 screens for everything else. I also like to have average pace as my main metric but have another screen dedicated to performance with live pace, etc. So it is kind of hard to squeeze lap specific metrics just for this function. In my tomorrow’s race I am going to use “Manual Intervals” S+ app. I’ll let you know how it will work that that.
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@sky-runner
maybe a silly idea, but what about using multisport ?
entering an aid station you switch to any mode you customized for “”“pause”“” at station, and switchback to main one when going out ?
if times data are setup correctely, you can have total time and/or current activity time (run or pause time in you case), previous pause and previous “stats”, etc…
and you will have all details in SA after.
