@Ger43 I’ve had (still have) lot of watches but find Suunto’s HW non matched by any of them.
That being said though I also prefer the Suunto philosophy and since I am in my 40s I kinda got other priorities than numbers and interruptions and all the noise the technology brings.
So at some point and while thinking about it I had a talk with one of my best buds that rocks F8 Amoled. And asked him how much of these ‘metrics’ do you really use, but really. So he just mentioned 4,5 metrics.
And I was so glad, since I too found myself being tired of the noise and just look at 3,4 things.
I will not say the FR965 is bad watch, on the contrary it’s very nice at least SW wise. As I said the plastic feeling and scratch-able glass are big issues compared to the looks of the Race.
Since you pinpoint the maps though and since I now find myself more and more enjoying trail run rather than road, the maps on the Garmin are almost useless to me. I run and tif the road is blocked or I take wrong turn or I have to unzoom to find where next… I had to stop literally for the maps to appear and be able to scroll. Terribly slow (they have not changed CPU for 4-5 generations and are trying to squeeze every last bit of the profits I guess).
Suuntos although less info on the maps I find them much more enjoyable, fast and responsive for what I need them. Oh and the layout is much cleaner.
I believe the Race2 is not measuring wrong distance per se. Rather the distance is closer to the snap-to-route distance, where different minor zig-zags are flattened and ignored. So it is closer to official measuring rather than unnecessary added distance.
Keep in mind the forest now is still naked so I cannot be certain that the distance will worsen where full of leaves, but so far the tracks have been to the point.