Suunto Race S pace track problems
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My Suunto Race S is acting up a bit, on my longer runs (over 1hr maybe) the pace track consistently turns out all messed up, discontinuous and jumpy, while on shorter runs it’s smooth and nice. See attached examples for a short run and a longer one.
Anyone has this issue? My GPS is always set to the highest accuracy, battery is high, good reception… What could be causing this? It happens very very consistently
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@Chen-Avinadav There is nothing wrong with your Race S or the GPS reception. Upload the .fit exercise file to an analysing site and you will see that the pace/speed variations are smoothly and slowly registered second by second. The Suunto ‘bug’ (as many of us would call it) lies within the Suunto App presentation and graph scale coarseness. It doesn’t have anything to do with the length of the activity; instead the presentation ‘bug’ is triggered by too small pace variations.
Look at your 41 minute exercise. At the very beginning is a smooth acceleration from something like 8:00/km. Also at the ending minutes there is a ‘downwards spike’ of pace drop registered to 8:40/km. At the other pace extreme you hover around 4:40/km. That is a 4 minute difference which allows the Suunto App to draw ‘smoothish’ curves.
In the 82 minute Run session, the pace span is a mere 1m20s circa (4:24-5:44-ish/km), and somehow the Suunto App then thinks it is A-OK to draw a rough sketch of the pace variations; with very few points.
Back a few months ago, when I cared about this issue and actually reported it in this forum, I tried to create smooth graphs by walking at the beginning of every Run session. But due to some delay incorporated in the Suunto App about when to start plotting the pace curve, I had to walk for an overly long time to make that happen. If memory serves me, more than 40 seconds. I decided it to be too much of a hassle…
