Race 2 accuracy

EzioAuditore

@shamilt1 I think the GPS tracks will become better once the watch has ‘settled’ around your preferred run area. At least that’s what I see. The first one, two were good but after that spot on. The distance in my runs has stayed same. Meaning the shorter meters do not increase as the length increases.
Enjoy your watch and may it serve you well.

2b2bff

@shamilt1 Suunto uses something called FusedSpeed. It uses GPS and your steps to calculate your distance. So it is possible the calculation differs, especially as GPS coverage gets bad…

shamilt1

Just had my first run with my Race 2 and the new firmware…I think the distance shortening may have been fixed. For the first time it’s recorded the same distance as my other GPS watch. I”ll give it a better test at the weekend

EzioAuditore

I went for a gravel bike and the distance was same as the edge I have but the gps track was out of this world-superb!

jjpaz

@shamilt1 I’ll try to check it this afternoon…

EzioAuditore

Small update after easy run (where I think the Race struggles the most - slower paces).
I ran with 3 watches:

SV2 (left hand outside of fingers),
SR2 (left wrist) and
AWU3 (right wrist)

Final distance:

SV2: 9.2 km
SR2: 9 km
AWU3: 9.14 km

So in my experience it has not been addressed and also today was the worst undercut since I own the Race 2: 200m in less than 10km.
On other news though the GPS track of the Race 2 is the best and smoothest for some reason

shamilt1

@EzioAuditore That’s disappointing to hear.

My run was a 6km zone 2 run, so also an easy run and the watch nailed it- I’m hoping it wasn’t a fluke, although looking at your stats it’s looking like it may have been.
I’ll be out again tomorrow for 6-8k so I’ll see how it does then and at the weekend I’ll be doing 13-14k so that should be far enough to get a better idea.
It would be useful to hear from one of the people in the know, if this issue was addressed in the update.

Finnjf

@shamilt1 I’m seeing the same shortening of distances with the updated software, possibly even slightly more (definitely not less shortening).

EzioAuditore

I apologize in advance if I am creating you more load, but @egika @isazi do you know something more?

Egika

@EzioAuditore I am not aware, that anything has been changed in the distance measurement with the recent update.
And I have also seen the Race 2 measuring less than Vertical 2. Just I have not made a bug from this, as I am not sure, it is one. A slightly less distance does not affect me in a negative way. Plus it is not clear, if less is actually wrong…