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@Matteiva yep I read your args of course. I’m still convinced that saving 2h of battery during a race is a non sens to me vs speed recharging on race and race S. On one side you’ll save 4 to 10% of battery, missing record of part of your race. On the other side, within 1hour or less you can fully recharge your watch. As you described that your not a « top athlete », it also means you’ll take some time to aid stations, so charging watch even 10 or 15min seems the best option (imho achieving races like diagonale des fous makes you a top athlete whatever your time !)
The most saving strategy of battery is changing battery mode, putting backlight to 0, not using maps…
I understand the risk of stopping an activity, but after thousands of activities in very various cases it happened to me only once with my Suunto baro 9 which add very big butttons (but pausing unintentionally sometimes on my race S and very rarely on my sv)
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@Tieutieu those 9 Baro buttons pressed on thier own I’m sure… I always locked the screen…
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@Matteiva said in "Resume later" for race, race-s and vertical and all incoming watches:
During that time we are tired, not always 100% focus, prone to errors.
For this reason, I don’t even pause my watch. I would prefer to just lock it and not unlock it until the finish. If I use “stop and resume later” option, more likely than not I’d forget to resume it.
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My previous watch, a forerunner 965, had resume later (although being garmin, it was quite buggy)
I used it once in a while, mainly during social rides, where there was a coffee stop half way. It’s somewhat convenient to be able to use your watch as a watch in that time. But I don’t see it as a must have.
There are other, more important functions missing on a suunto. Mainly configuration options, like specifying which datafield are on the lap screen, or more fine grained options for alarms, or vibrations and beeps.
Live tracking on garmin is also a nice to have. (Yes, there are third party options but they don’t start automatically, use the gps of the phone and drain the battery and cannot show the route you plan to follow)
Trackmode, on the other hand, doesn’t add any value for me. I train on a track every week. On a track, it’s easy to know distance due to marks on the track and you know in what time to run the intervals. Basically, all you need is a stopwatch. That strava doesn’t show a trail snapped to the lane, isn’t a problem that needs to be solved.
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@elbee said in "Resume later" for race, race-s and vertical and all incoming watches:
Live tracking on garmin is also a nice to have. (Yes, there are third party options but they don’t start automatically, use the gps of the phone and drain the battery and cannot show the route you plan to follow)
Live tracking is now available for Suunto’s (S9pp, Race, Race S, Vertical). Not a Suunto development (for now ?) but works well.
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For me it’s unacceptable option that Vertical doesn’t have resume later option and possibility to go back into main menu/watch mode. My perspective is tactical user and thruhiker. I used to use fenix series and for me it’s should be basic option. I’m shocked that Suunto doesn’t have this option. So after 1 week of using Vertical I’m planning to sell my watch and buy new garmin fenix. I like battery life of Suunto but for me now suunto vs garmin, taking consideration topics above, is like some basic smartwatch… Garmin has possibility of using any option during using sport modes and its adjustable in any way. Also has option to adjust a lot of setups during activity. Suunto? What’s went wrong???
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@Cezary-Śliwiński I don’t think anything has gone wrong.
If Garmin suits you better, get a Garmin.
I came to Suunto from a Fenix. I prefer the Suunto, just get what is best for you.
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@Cezary-Śliwiński Totally agree - without this function it looks like old school. If someone talk about it, it should be. For me - it’s major function which should be: I cycling to my job on mornings and on evening commuting back home and nice to have one track. Watches is not about only for races, it’s casual smart thing. Maybe maps are not useful option too?
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@zilnau but why? Why would you want 2 excersizes that you did on separate times as one? In my opinio sport watch should record excersize and do as little mingling with it as possible. If you want to merge 2 excersizes (or comutes) you can use a merger. Because where is the limit what watch should track, maybe I do a hike once a week and want to see it as one excersize when the year ends, so it has to continue all the time, for somebody else it might be something else. I still think - the simpler the better
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I can only think of one usage: cheat with my healthcare payback program.
The program let me earn points. 150 points for half an hour exercise but zero for less. Only 1 activity a day counts, so doing my 15 minutes commute twice still gets me 0 points, but resume later get’s me 150 points 🤫
I had it on my previous watch (forerunner 965) but don’t miss it very much on my race s.
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@elbee If half an hour of activity is beyond your capabilities, seriously, you don’t need this feature. What’s more, you don’t even need a Suunto watch
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Sorry that my home was only 15 minute bike ride from my work. But to prove I’m Suunto worthy, I changed jobs and now cycle half an hour. SomI don’t need to cheat any more
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@elbee You don’t have to take his comments seriously, he’s the jester of the forum…
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Just between you and me. I wasn’t really sorry that my work was only a 15 minute bike ride from home.
