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    • Fenr1rF Offline
      Fenr1r
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      If a “Resume Later” feature reloaded/generated the activity’s track (breadcrumb/red line), it would provide some sort of opportunity to backtrack. (As deprecated since the Ambit and much missed by some.) Might be easier for Suunto than recreating the specific Track Back function.

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        Egika Platinum Member @Matteiva
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        @Matteiva i have only done some 34h+ races so far and never needed stop my activity to then start the same one again.
        But I get you would like it.
        So I guess this idea has made it to Suunto Product Managers maybe some time ago. Priorities were set differently.

        As Suunto does not have this, here’s an idea how to make the paused state less “dangerous” for you: when the watch is paused, you can still enable the button lock, so you don’t accidentally end your activity.

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          Matteiva @Egika
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          @Egika thank you for your constructive suggestion considering existing features

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            Matteiva @Egika
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            To add more information about the garmin implementation, resume later means when you want to start an activity it resumes the previous activity, you can not “restart” old activities, you can not start a fresh activity

            So I guess there is a “memory” slot where the activity is referenced, and once you want to do a fresh start it loads that context and no choice than to start or to terminate this.

            Just for information

            Have a good day and activities to everyone

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              Tieutieu Platinum Member @far-blue
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              @far-blue great idea to be able to group activities ! Would be awesome to have a global statistics for multiple day trip !

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                Tieutieu Platinum Member @Matteiva
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                @Matteiva yep I read your args of course. I’m still convinced that saving 2h of battery during a race is a non sens to me vs speed recharging on race and race S. On one side you’ll save 4 to 10% of battery, missing record of part of your race. On the other side, within 1hour or less you can fully recharge your watch. As you described that your not a « top athlete », it also means you’ll take some time to aid stations, so charging watch even 10 or 15min seems the best option (imho achieving races like diagonale des fous makes you a top athlete whatever your time !)
                The most saving strategy of battery is changing battery mode, putting backlight to 0, not using maps…
                I understand the risk of stopping an activity, but after thousands of activities in very various cases it happened to me only once with my Suunto baro 9 which add very big butttons (but pausing unintentionally sometimes on my race S and very rarely on my sv)
                As suggested I use lock button when I want to to be sure not to accidentally stop recording.

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                  Audaxjoe @Tieutieu
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                  @Tieutieu those 9 Baro buttons pressed on thier own I’m sure… I always locked the screen…
                  I don’t bother locking the screen on the Vertical, the buttons are a massive improvement over the 9 Baro.

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                    sky-runner Silver Members @Matteiva
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                    @Matteiva said in "Resume later" for race, race-s and vertical and all incoming watches:

                    During that time we are tired, not always 100% focus, prone to errors.

                    For this reason, I don’t even pause my watch. I would prefer to just lock it and not unlock it until the finish. If I use “stop and resume later” option, more likely than not I’d forget to resume it.

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                      elbee Bronze Member
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                      My previous watch, a forerunner 965, had resume later (although being garmin, it was quite buggy)

                      I used it once in a while, mainly during social rides, where there was a coffee stop half way. It’s somewhat convenient to be able to use your watch as a watch in that time. But I don’t see it as a must have.

                      There are other, more important functions missing on a suunto. Mainly configuration options, like specifying which datafield are on the lap screen, or more fine grained options for alarms, or vibrations and beeps.

                      Live tracking on garmin is also a nice to have. (Yes, there are third party options but they don’t start automatically, use the gps of the phone and drain the battery and cannot show the route you plan to follow)

                      Trackmode, on the other hand, doesn’t add any value for me. I train on a track every week. On a track, it’s easy to know distance due to marks on the track and you know in what time to run the intervals. Basically, all you need is a stopwatch. That strava doesn’t show a trail snapped to the lane, isn’t a problem that needs to be solved.

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                        Tieutieu Platinum Member @elbee
                        last edited by Tieutieu

                        @elbee said in "Resume later" for race, race-s and vertical and all incoming watches:

                        Live tracking on garmin is also a nice to have. (Yes, there are third party options but they don’t start automatically, use the gps of the phone and drain the battery and cannot show the route you plan to follow)

                        Live tracking is now available for Suunto’s (S9pp, Race, Race S, Vertical). Not a Suunto development (for now ?) but works well.

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