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@Brad_Olwin I always run 2-3 days after races. Only for all-out Marathons, I take two weeks off. My HR is not really influenced by these races. It is not more than the usual ±4 bpms during easy runs at aerobic LT. Of course my legs are tired and the muscular effort feels way higher for the pace but HR is the same for the speed that I run. I would be then not able to run for long time at my LT but due to fatigue. HR is then still in the expected corridor for that pace. Only experienced strong deviations of LT HR at return to sport after stronger infections like COVID and always the first 3 days of winter training camp on the canarien islands. There my body is always completely overwhelmed by the sudden 25°C temperature difference. SZ though told me so many times, I would be way above or below my threshold even though RPE, HR, and pace was exactly as expected. During the training camp SZ always told me that my Real-Time effort should be way higher. No way that I could ever run under that sudden higher temps at that HR which was close to my 1k all-out HR. Real-Time effort does not work at all for me, while average reported thresholds over more than hundred activities come close.

@Sascha-Domres makes sense, I get your point but it is more like I would buy Coros Apex 4 or similar and go to their community and start complaining that they do not support “tags” on activities and I am so dissapointed in all they do

I’d love a red light option for the flashlight (Race S screen flashlight) and automatic update of my min and max HR based on resting or sleeping heart rate.

This tips comes from several dive computers manufactures to avoid Dropouts… When a dive light causes a wireless tank transmitter to drop its signal or fail underwater, it is usually due to electromagnetic interference (EMI) or radio frequency interference (RFI) emitted by the light’s internal LED driver circuit, or a shared power drop if batteries are critically low. TIPS Increase Distance: Keep your primary dive light mounted on your Goodman handle or hand, well away from the tank transmitter on your first stage or the computer on your wrist. Check Batteries: Swap or fully charge the batteries in both the dive light and the transmitter. Low voltage changes the operating frequency and output power of electronic circuits, making them much more susceptible to noise and drops. Use a HP Hose Extension: Move the transmitter off the direct port of the first stage using a short high-pressure hose extension. This clears physical and electronic blind spots. Upgrade Gear: Switch to a high-quality, name-brand dive light with certified electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) shielding, or service/replace an aging transmitter. My dive lights usually are: 2x Divevolk LS50 ( video lights mounted on Gopro) away from transmitter. 1x Wurkkos LS05 ( torch bolt snap attached to Nautic Bungee cord) 1x Prozhaozhu ( strobe beacon bolt snap attached to Nautic Bungee cord) Curious: coincidence or not, when i stop using cheap TDS DZENOT backup light the dropouts stop

@johann.fuehrer will try to see if it makes any difference…

@André-Faria It is hard to claim warranty for this. The watch restarts randomly. My seller says: the fault did not appear.

@Łukasz-Szmigiel Of course - no rush, and appreciate you are doing this voluntarily. I can always roughly convert speeds in my head - mph is roughly double m/s. By the way, it’s a Vertical 2 watch. And thanks again for the app!

I have the same issue since 10 days. I sent a mail at the Suunto support. I hope this bug will be fixed soon.

@isazi said: with a new route, or the same as last week? Both, newly created and re-enabled old ones.

@Goatee Suunto reached out to me via email asking for more information (watch serial number, app version, etc.). I sent them the deets, so I’ll see where things go from there. Hopefully we can isolate the bug and get it fixed.

@Thorlap71 said: @Danny-poleg Before trying to get my watch replaced because of reboots, do you think I should try to revert my watch back to 2.48.16 firmware which is the only previous version available in my “Select OTA pkg”. Is this a reasonable thing to do? Hello. I downgraded and no more reboot. It usually rebooted3-4 times a days, at rest as well as during activity. Regard

@MikeC30 @markg pretty sure this is a bug in the app.

@Tieutieu Battery drain: Same here

@isazi Yeah, let’s hope they implement it as soon as possible.

@André-Faria normally yes for regular runs and training would work but not for the race w crew and whatnot.

@duffman19 So I tried first with a short stretching activity. Delete from SA, log out of SA, login again, resync and it showed the activity again. However. doing so with my long run, seems to not resync although it’s still on the watch (at least showing on the watch. I noticed. Daily HR, steps, resources are all in SA including the activity time. But GPS and activity stats are not. Would be great to ad Fit/json manualy Back into SA. That’s possible? Is it possible json and fit files are deleted if you uninstal SA?? Would be an explanation I can’t find them on my phone anymore.

@maszop can you give me some details about your disconnects with Vertical 2 and the new firmware? I will forward them to Suunto.

@Egika said: I ever wondered why anyone would like to know their step count. It must have been some good marketing from whoever came up with this… I looked into the history of “step count” and asking some people I know who use that metric, and I think a few things came together to make it popular. First was the “10000 steps” idea made by a Japanese marketing firm years ago which I think people liked as being an easy number to remember, and it was promoted as a universal thing (compare with tracking active calories, where people of different weights like need different targets). https://www.nuhs.edu/debunking-the-10000-step-myth-figuring-out-what-actually-matters/ It also resonates with some people as some of their “natural activity counts” towards it, so walking around the house, etc. gets one somewhat toward the goal then they just need to “finish their steps.” I still see it ideally as more of a “training wheels” metric and think at least tracking active calories is better (so other activities like cycling and yoga “count better” despite not having many steps, as opposed to Polar’s system that assigns “step equivalents” to encourage non-walking activity). And Suunto puts steps and calories on the same Daily Health page so I can see someone new to fitness and Suunto thinking “need steps” eventually learning to use calories instead.