Live EPOC
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Do Suunto Vertical2 and Suunto Race2 display live EPOC during exercise?
My current Suunto9 does and I use it to pace my training session. I think of changing to a new watch, but displaying live EPOC development is essential for me. -
@Albert-Willem-Knop
EPOC is available as a data field for custom mode. -
@Mff73 Thanks. As far as I know Polar and Garmin watches don’t have it and I was not sure wheater Suunto had included it in the latest models. I’m not sure how people can pace theire training without is. For me it is essential as the EPOC development during a session helps me to regulate my training intensity to end up close to my target at the end of the session and not getting surprised by a much higher or lower PTE when you get that after the session is finished.
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@Albert-Willem-Knop said in Live EPOC:
I’m not sure how people can pace theire training without is.
That”s very simple, I train at my athletics club twice a week. My trainer comes up with intervals we have to run (on the track typically between 200m and 800m and you can lookup the times you have to run for intensive or extensive training, based on your 5k or 10k race results. Distance is easy on a track, times are known. All you need is a stopwatch. If I have to run 400m in 1:30 I peek at 200m, it should be around 45s. If you do it often enough it becomes second nature to pace correctly.
Longruns are typical 30 seconds per k slower than marathon pace (if you train for a marathon). Recovery runs might be even slower than that.
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I rarely pay much attention to my EPOC number, in fact I haven’t looked at it for years. Training wise I do okay for an older athlete, I’m not particularly good or fast by any stretch of the imagination (4:18 PB for 50km), but I’d rather go by how my body and mind are feeling along with a few of the other metrics in the Suunto app
Probably should read up on how to use and read my EPOC values
