Pretty impressed after first month.
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I’ve had my Race 2 now one month and used it continuously since then, trying to learn it and get used to it.
I can from a fenix 7 and I have to say I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Its never easy choosing a new watch and the net is full of opinions and views on why u shouldn’t buy the one u want! From all the online negativity u could be forgiven for thinking absolutely nothing works as it should!
Fortunately for me everything seems to work exactly as i want and has been an improved experience from Garmin.
GPS accuracy has been spot on for my rides and never had any issues at all.
I pair my watch with a garmin hrm pro and it works perfectly, giving me zonesense metrics and the more I learn about this, the more I appreciate zonesense for being a really useful and powerful tool for training.
The optical heart rate sensor on the watch, in my experience, has actually been surprisingly accurate as well. Even through primarily i use a chest strap, in my comparisons its been remarkably accurate.
I’m getting more used to the app and definitely prefer it to garmin for the information it gives me and way it is displayed.
I am still learning my way around this new ecosystem but its a very positive process. One surprise yesterday was when, while at work, I did an indoor treadmill run and somewhat unexpectedly when I checked the metrics afterwards it had somehow even worked out the distance I’d run on the machine and it was spot on! I’ve no idea how this is actually done as it was not connected to the treadmill in anyway, but I’m impressed!
The only thing I miss is the ability to do spot hrv measurements but possibly this will come later with an update. That would really make it a very complete package. One other suggestion I saw which I think would be amazing, is if we could ever flip the display, as I wear my watch on the right hand. I dont know of any other watches that do this so would be cool if suunto was out there with that.
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@TED77 It’s very interesting to hear your opinions coming from Garmin. I sometimes think about trying a Fenix 7 Pro, but I never end up doing it. I don’t know what a Fenix 7 Pro could offer me compared to my Vertical and my Race S.
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@jjpaz more confusion mostly
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@TED77 Then, in this case, less is more? I think this is my opinion here
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Well I have a Fenix 7 solar and Suunto Race (I’ve had these two watches for over a year now). And I can tell you that I’m using more and more Race. Data is really well interpreted in a way that you don’t have to dig around to get to things you want to know or are useful for you. It’s simplyfied down, but not in a way that it’s less usefull, but in a more useful way for you as a user. I hope I’m being reasonable here
There are metrics that are totaly usless on my fenix (for me at least), but are represented as a holy grail. Some numbers even numb you down when you look at them (stress, body battery, training readiness an so on).
And there’s problems with barometer - a lot of times showing wrong altitude, so you have to calibrate it all the time. And everytime I descend with my car into the valley it goes nuts with storm alert.
Maps are another story - they are super detailed, but take a long time to even turn around.
Then comes LiveTrack - in my opinion the most useful thing on a garmin watch. It just works and works perfectly. But since we have a Livetrack on Suunto now, it’s ok.So that’s just my opinion here
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@hatori_hanzo totally agree. I’ve just been getting into using zonesense and am really impressed with how well this works. Its really improved how I train. An extremely useful but relatively easy tool to use and backs up your point about presentation and simplification of relevant information. No digging around, its just there and works. Love this feature of suunto.
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How is the size of the Race 2 compared to the Fenix 7?
