New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings
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@freeheeler The Vertical felt very hefty in the hand and while I know the weight of the titanium Race and Vertical are almost identical, I swear the Race feels much lighter. After wearing to bed last night I woke up and almost thought I forgot to wear the watch. For the last month I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch Ultra exclusively and I can report the Race is much better to sleep with.
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@craigeggleton
from the specs it is slightly lighter.
most of my watches are titanium, but some also steel. the weight difference between Vertical Ti and Race Ti is noticeable if you focus to feel it. but the difference e.g. between Vertical steel and Ti is significant
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Hello, for those that have the Race, how is sleep tracking accuracy and HR accuracy? I have seen some videos questioning the accuracy of these. I would mostly wear an external HR monitor during workouts, but am curious about the accuracy of these. Thanks stuck between Garmin Epix and Race.
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@surfratt Hello guys, I had the Epix pro and switched to Suunto Race. I actually don’t regret it. The race looks and feels much nicer - “tidy”
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@surfratt Sleep tracking has worked very nice with me so far. Nailed the actual sleep and wake up time, while REM and deep sleep times seem reasonable (you can only measure those accurately in a lab).
Heart rate sensor works well in the everyday life, but with certain sports (weight lifting, riding a bike) there are moments when it fails to catch the heartbeat completely and then a moment later is fairly accurate, but I’d suggest a chest strap to get accurate measurement no doubt. -
@Rango said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:
@surfratt Hello guys, I had the Epix pro and switched to Suunto Race. I actually don’t regret it. The race looks and feels much nicer - “tidy”
How do you find it compared to the pro and what’s better? I’m doing the same but not sure it’ll work!
Is there a lag on the wrist action when running?
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@David-Lown I’ve always worn a chest strap when running because the OHR is always out of order with all manufacturers. Since I have a fairly narrow hanging handlebar, the Race is actually more comfortable to wear than the Epix. I currently don’t regret the decision.
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@craigeggleton said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:
@freeheeler The Vertical felt very hefty in the hand and while I know the weight of the titanium Race and Vertical are almost identical, I swear the Race feels much lighter. After wearing to bed last night I woke up and almost thought I forgot to wear the watch. For the last month I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch Ultra exclusively and I can report the Race is much better to sleep with.
I have an Ultra too and agree 100%. I find the Vertical a little uncomfortable due to the weight and my wrists are not large. The Race, despite a similar size feels much lighter.
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@freeheeler said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:
@lexterm77
really?
I’m using both and I think they’re very similar, despite the screen technology.
I’m frequently using other Suunto watches, toobut we can’t discuss the fact away that the Race IS the newer watch
Between S9P, S9PP there was a marginal improvement but SV felt much more modern and now SR with its amoled super responsiveness and customized buttons like on S7 as my ultimate everyday carry. I have however noticed my calorie consumption has lowered as much as 20% on same route with same personal parameters. I wonder if calorie includes basal metabolic consumption or just activity?
My usual morning trail run SV vs SR with 2nd gen Stryd:
These runs are day apart but look like months or years of base training
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@lexterm77 Race uses new proprietary algorithms by Suunto. This should explain the difference in the consumption values.
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Coming back from three years using Garmin products I am happy to say that this time Suunto with the Suunto Race really nailed it! Very good screen, precise gps tracking, and amazing snorkeling activity metrics ( I don’t think Garmin has snorkeling activity to it’s flagship watches). I’ve tested the watch at kayaking and hiking too.
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My favourite picks of the watch (there are many but just some listed here):
-On my opinion the Suunto app is just the best of them all (I’ve tried every sports watch company and too many sport watches
) e.g. your stats weekly, monthly, yearly so clearly viewed. And different colors for different sports. Training metrics etc…-route planing with heatmaps and how easily those routes can be sent to watch
-on activity the screen is a “true” always on display, metrics view wont dim or go blank. The map will lose the map view if wrist is lowered, but super fast back on if you turn your wrist. And also wrist lowered screen shows at least your trail
-quick buttons and multiple alarms, thanks Suunto for listening your users!
-screen is very nice and bright, hr metrics are better than suunto vertical, sleep monitoring improved
Christmas is coming
So something to wishlist also if someone from Suunto is reading these posts:-fix for the training metrics not syncing correctly back to watch without turning the watch off and back on (more of this in another topic here in this website)
-possibility to check the time at night without awaking the whole screen, suggestion: for example in do not disturb mode lower or upper button would just show the time like in normal aod screen saver mode and a press of the middle button would wake the whole screen.
-adjustment to flashlight. E.g. with wheel scroll you could adjust the brightness of the light like in apple watch
-the little lag when scrolling through widgets etc… I think it’s more precise when used with touch screen. Maybe the scroll wheel should be adjusted a bit to be more presice. Now it feels little like driving a Suzuki Jimny, turn the wheel and after a while also the car turns
-on map view and navigating: the next turn notification shows on the whole screen. If e.g. a route where lots of turns, the screen is showing all the time these notifications and then you can’t see the actual map, so maybe a smaller info screen for turns, so that the map would be also visible (even if smaller or something like that)
-more watchfaces. Altough the new primary watchface for Race is quite nice.
-is there allready your race time estimates somewhere or can’t I just find them…?
-it would be great if they would get back the recovery hours like in vertical and also this to the app
Overall a solid package and great value for the price. Liking a lot
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@SuuntoR said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:
My favourite picks of the watch (there are many but just some listed here):
-On my opinion the Suunto app is just the best of them all (I’ve tried every sports watch company and too many sport watches
) e.g. your stats weekly, monthly, yearly so clearly viewed. And different colors for different sports. Training metrics etc…
-fix for the training metrics not syncing correctly back to watch without turning the watch off and back on (more of this in another topic here in this website)This will be fixed.
-adjustment to flashlight. E.g. with wheel scroll you could adjust the brightness of the light like in apple watch
Interesting idea!
-on map view and navigating: the next turn notification shows on the whole screen. If e.g. a route where lots of turns, the screen is showing all the time these notifications and then you can’t see the actual map, so maybe a smaller info screen for turns, so that the map would be also visible (even if smaller or something like that)
-more watchfaces. Altough the new primary watchface for Race is quite nice.
-is there allready your race time estimates somewhere or can’t I just find them…?
-it would be great if they would get back the recovery hours like in vertical and also this to the app
With the switch to Suunto algorithms for training, etc. I do not know what will happen to recovery time.
Overall a solid package and great value for the price. Liking a lot
️Glad you like it.
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@lexterm77 Please let this be fixed like the SR for all watches. Suunto way overshoots activity calories
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@stromdiddily said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:
@lexterm77 Please let this be fixed like the SR for all watches. Suunto way overshoots activity calories
But that would make me lose weight.
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@SuuntoR said in New owner of Suunto Race - first feelings:
.-is there allready your race time estimates somewhere or can’t I just find them…?
Scrolling down the progress widget
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@ChrisA didnt see this info on my Race… But did only 1 Run
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@GiPFELKiND don’t know when it started showing up - 5 runs/20 km in the last 10 days
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First real difficult scenario for the Race, a very steep path on the side of the mountain very close to the rocks.
GPS behavior was very good, I didn’t think multi band would make such a difference.
Map readability and brightness is a pleasure for the eyes, and the night version is really good in a night scenario provided you don’t point your frontal lamp directly on the screen.
To my surprise the optical heart sensor gave very realistic values in a fast trail running descent (I was very late).
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@General_Witt Very nice!
