Navigation and pausing
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@aiv4r said in Navigation and pausing:
@ondrejm regarding aid stations, gos does not go that crazy and forgeting to unpause is more of a concern at ultras in my opinion. Stopping watch at traffic lights is just crazy in my opinion
Right. During a race the timer must never stop for two reasons - the risk of forgetting to unpause is very real, especially in longer races, and what I want to see is the race elapsed time which continues to tick even when I am at an aid station.
What Garmin has in “Ultra run” sport mode is an optional rest timer. The way it works is that when arriving at an aid station you press the lap button and a small popup comes on top of all data screens that shows elapsed “rest” time at the aid station. It reminds you to not linger and keep going, but it isn’t an actual pause - the recording continues and distance and pace, and other metrics are unaffected even if you forget to stop the rest timer. To finish the rest you press the lap button again. Then the rest is recorded as a lap, and it is clearly marked as rest when you look at the activity in Garmin Connect. I really wish Suunto had something like that.
I should say that I never pause my watch even during training runs. Instead I rely on Strava to automatically remove non-moving time.
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@sky-runner said in Navigation and pausing:
@aiv4r said in Navigation and pausing:
@ondrejm regarding aid stations, gos does not go that crazy and forgeting to unpause is more of a concern at ultras in my opinion. Stopping watch at traffic lights is just crazy in my opinion
Right. During a race the timer must never stop for two reasons - the risk of forgetting to unpause is very real, especially in longer races, and what I want to see is the race elapsed time which continues to tick even when I am at an aid station.
What Garmin has in “Ultra run” sport mode is an optional rest timer. The way it works is that when arriving at an aid station you press the lap button and a small popup comes on top of all data screens that shows elapsed “rest” time at the aid station. It reminds you to not linger and keep going, but it isn’t an actual pause - the recording continues and distance and pace, and other metrics are unaffected even if you forget to stop the rest timer. To finish the rest you press the lap button again. Then the rest is recorded as a lap, and it is clearly marked as rest when you look at the activity in Garmin Connect. I really wish Suunto had something like that.
I should say that I never pause my watch even during training runs. Instead I rely on Strava to automatically remove non-moving time.
The Suunto Ultra Walk/Run S+ will track run, walk and stopped times for you. Those are recorded in the app now as metrics as well. A solution that works for me.
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@Brad_Olwin said in Navigation and pausing:
The Suunto Ultra Walk/Run S+ will track run, walk and stopped times for you. Those are recorded in the app now as metrics as well. A solution that works for me.
I know you have suggested this before, but the goal is not to automatically record cumulative run, walk, and stop times, but rather keep me aware about each individual stop with the goal to not waste too much time at an aid station. The extra benefit of the rest timer function is to later see the stops as laps. The latter can be achieved with the regular laps function, but I usually don’t have lap specific data fields configured, especially with Suunto where I am limited to only 3 data screens. The fact that the rest timer shows a small popup with the elapsed timer is especially important. It is sort of similar to how Suunto shows the pause. But, of course, I’d never pause my watch during a race.
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@sky-runner The times are shown in the S+ app so you can have cumulative times in aid. I personally use it after the race as I try to be in and out of aid as quickly as possible.
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@maszop What are the drawbacks? I thought if you just use it as a button its the same like the middle button on Vertical. Or is it not?
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@VoiGAS Several layers of clothing, thick gloves, etc. Buttons are much more practical in this case.
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@maszop So the buttons on the Vertical are working different than the ones of the Race? Sorry, I never used a Vertical and really don’t know
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@VoiGAS said in Navigation and pausing:
@maszop So the buttons on the Vertical are working different than the ones of the Race? Sorry, I never used a Vertical and really don’t know
the point is, that with a rotating crown, the crown is used exclusively to zoom the map.
Something pretty much impossible, in winter with multiple sleeves and gloves. So the map will either zoom unintentionally from contact with clothes or difficult to operate with gloves.
So me and others cannot use the crown in these cases and prefer a button-only watch. -
Hi I have just got my first vertical 2 watch. I am very pleased it - the gps looks really good. I use it for hiking and I am not sure about the button sequence for finishing a route! Currently I go into Hiking mode find my route and press start. I really like the map view and it seems to be very accurately recording my track as I hike the route. But to end and save the activity - that I have not done. I have tried all the button combinations but only succeeded in discarding everything.
I have read this thread and get an idea that it’s something to do with the middle button presses to get you past the elevation screen - but then what? If there’s a good link to an idiot’s guide that would great - the user manual is good for the overview but some of the detail seems hard to find!
Just a quick list to the button presses would be very much appreciated! Thanks. -
@feh123 just upper button then choose between end (again upper button) or pause (top down button). Just before switch to some other watch face then map view
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@tomahawk5000 thanks! So just to check - use middle button to get past elevation screen and then press upper button and I get to the pause or end screen. Do you think on ending it will save my track? Thanks again.
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@feh123 yes it will save your track just read the message on the screen
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@tomahawk5000 Great - thanks.
