Hi, @Montrod et al.
While I know this post was from a month & change ago, I’ve come to be disappointed in the Race 2.
I purchased a Race 2 Titanium at the end of March as an update to my original Race Titanium which had been demonstrating flaky battery life—unresolved by the Race 2.
The lower profile of the Race 2 is quite nice, as is the improved charger setup, but, apart from that, I am unimpressed. The all-black aesthetics (even on the Trail Ti model) come across as too generic, almost cheap, which I grew to resent with the titanium model’s higher price point. Further, notifications on the R2 would just “hang” and require manual dismissal via depressing the crown.
So, I’ve purchased another Race Titanium (I had gifted the first one to my son) and am attempting to sell the R2 through Facebook—but with no success thus far; Suunto is not a popular brand in this part of the US.
TL/DR: Save a few bucks and go with the original Race.