Suunto Race S general discussion
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Owning Race S for a week and I am very satisfied! Coming from S9P great Update! I thought I keep the S9P for a while, but Race S convinced me fast! Race S feels very comfortable. Lighter watch body and well balanced. This is really noticeable. Probably because of lighter glas and less steel. Very nice. The Display is also so nice. Also during running. Readability perfect. Gorilla Glas very crisp, better touch, cleaner. Think biking will also do good. Thats why I also sold S9P quickly. The S9P design is more radical. Think Race S more pleasant. The watch looks litte bigger, although steel bezel diameter the same, because the body not cut straight. Very nice! The few runs I did, S9P still very accurate in compare to Race S. But was in easy GPS terrain. Overall for me very best watch on market, also in relation to price. New UI, crown, button feel, vibration is a dream. Decent 2nd watchface very good solution. Build quality awesome!
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Hello,
I will give my point of view on my Race S.
But I think she will go back to the store…
My basic problem is that I have years of using Garmin behind me.
But I liked the Race. A correct size watch, with map and Amoled screen, at this price, it was great.
Only here, when we knew Garmin, well Suunto still has a long way to go to catch up with them.
What I like about the Race S is its size, very good for me.
Its pleasant screen (like all Amoled).
His card is very readable and responsive.
It’s GPS accuracy. Rather in the application, and which I think must be corrected because on the watch it is not quite the same
What bothers me the most is already the heart sensor. I run, cycle and row. I put the rowing machine aside because for watches, it is difficult to properly capture the heart rate.
But in running, almost every time, the first 4 or 5 minutes are wrong. I stay in the 70 or 80 beats. Impossible thing.
Then a lot of practical little things, but absent at Suunto. Among them, the sleep mode that you can’t activate whenever you want. We can program it but that’s all. And besides, why not automatically lock the keys in sleep mode!? Forced to go through a shortcut for that.
Notifications. Why is it impossible to put them only in vibrator, without the whole watch being in vibrator!?
In the race, with intervals, a ringtone indicates the change. Ok but why not have a 5-sec count (still present at Garmin), which allows you to prepare for change.
Autonomy. In the standard we will say, even if the Garmins last much longer (my wife has a Forerunner 265 and the battery lasts longer). On the other hand, the Race S recharges very quickly!
You will tell me “go back to Garmin and leave us alone”
.That’s what’s going to happen I think but I’m still disappointed because I like this watch.
Others will say that updates will certainly evolve all this by adding functions and correcting others.
Surely, but I don’t buy a watch for that or to be a tester.
And sorry but read everywhere here that at the slightest problem you have to reset or something like that… But no!!! The watch must work one point that’s all.
During the time spent at Garmin and several watches purchased, I never had any problems, or bugs, or possible updates to wait for.I can no longer convince myself that Suunto makes as good watches as before.
Their watches are beautiful, pleasant, but lack so many functions and practicality compared to the Garmin, Coros or even Apple Watch.
I find that they do like Polar, they come out great watches but not totally to the point. And we have to wait for updates…
And the worst thing is that all the small points of detail, important for me, maybe not for others, are just Software. It’s just programming.
It’s a shame.
I just give my point of view and don’t try to discourage others
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@suuntastic More picture comparisons please!
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@FrkBZH35 If you want Garmin features you should purchase a Garmin. Suunto≠Garmin and Suunto does not want to equal Garmin. For exercise on multi-band GPS Garmin battery life is much, much worse as RaceS is 30h on mulitband with maps and routes! OHR is not an accurate method for measuring HR on any device either Apple, Garmin, Coros or Suunto. A belt provides much more accurate data as is seen from the new ZoneSense release from Suunto.
The functions that Garmin has and Suunto does not are not wanted by many of us. Suunto’s approach to training is far, far better than Garmin IMHO as CTL, TSB and ATL are used by the vast majority of athletes in Endurance sports. Suunto allows the user to interpret data for training rather than saying your body battery is low. I know when I don’t sleep well.
Not to be antagonistic but providing a different point of view. There are features I want to have on Suunto watches that are missing but those features are not necessarily on Garmin, Apple or Coros. -
@Brad_Olwin
Just to clarify, 13% less battery on my 01:37 bike ride…we are far from 30 hours announced. -
@FrkBZH35 if you’re worried about battery
, you’re on the wrong Suunto watch 
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@FrkBZH35 My battery consumption today with HR chest strap for a 2 hour MTB ride was 12% with always on display. In my experience, with the display set to ‘Raise to wake’, the consumption would have been roughly half of it, which more or less matches Suunto’s promise.
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@obhikkhu I wasn’t complaining but merely replying to a previous post of someone stating their findings of the battery life during a bike ride. My battery consumption during exercise is roughly what I stated whether I perform a soft reset or not (been there, done that…).
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@obhikkhu That is to say?
The watch that bugs and does it by itself?
Or is it up to us to do it after each use? (If that’s it, sorry but a joke
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Hi! I have realized lately that the watch registers my naps (on the picture those little orange dots on monday, thursday, friday). But they won’t sync to the app anymore (sometimes like last sundays long nap it also synced to app). I’ve read from reddit that somebody else also having this problem about for one month now. Tried to sync many times, tried to power off and on the watch. Anybody else having the same, any suggestions how it could be fixed or is it a software problem?
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In my case tje watch register all nights the sleeping as a nap, always are nap. So every morning it says 0:00h of sleeping. And it says 7:00h of NAP
In consequence my HRV is not working simce day one cos al my sleeping watch is registering as map
Lot of work to do in this watch/software man
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@dmcdmc Have you setup an auto-dnd time period for the times you are usually likely to be asleep?
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Yes, i have tried everything read in every post of the forum, also speaked with asistance and done a soft reset, nothing changed ) the only thing that I have not done is a hard reset.
Nothing of all tried changed ,my sleep is always registered as nap, so hrv is not working for this consequence
Thanks gor the input far-blue
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Hi everyone, how do you create a training plan in the suunto race S in order to prepare for a specific race ? (E.g: 21km on the 8th of december). I heard it s common on Garmin and that s the only thing I really miss on this watch. Thank you !
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@wakarimasen do not have more. S9P already sold…
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Could anyone recommend a good glass protection for this watch? I would be grateful for help.
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@Ars-Vitae I’m using a glass protector for Fenix 7, it fits well.
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I’m using this one. Fits perfekt, invisible:
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