Swim style and intervals detection
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As I seldom swim, today I had the first real occation to try the Race S in that regards. First, I’m not a freestyle or butterfly swimmer. I was a bit afraid of the results but it turned out rather well. Only the Suunto App should label intervals with mixed styles as mixed instead of one of the styles.
In fact, I had an Epix Pro on the other arm and not only did Garmin overcount by one lane, it did not automatically split the session in intervals on a break, what I was surprised the Race S did.
One point for the Race S again…
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@2b2bff thanks for this.
I’m running into issues with the Suunto Run (ah !) for pool swimming as it does not detect intervals, nor swim styles, nor pauses (thanks for your comment on my other post). I got another reply from Suunto support, via email, where they state:“The Suunto Run does support pool swimming tracking, but some features like automatic lap detection and stroke recognition may not be as advanced as those on our higher-end models like the Suunto 9 or Suunto Spartan series.”
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“I will escalate your feedback to our product team for review to ensure our advertising aligns with the device’s capabilities.” (I had pointed out the Run specs in their product page mentions the Suunto Run is capable of all those things)So, I guess the conclusion is that the Run cannot detect intervals, and likely it won’t. I hope at least they change their advertising. And in the end, I might get a Race S instead. Thus, this comment
As I’m more interested in its pool swim stats, it seems you do get a post-swim nice breakdown of what you did. That’s already great. Can you also tell me if you got automatic rest detections ? Like, when you stop at the wall, did the watch detect a pause, stopped your interval, and even showed you a rest screen, with rest time, something like that ?
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@tailwind_mrs very strange that they are referring to Suunto 9 or Spartan instead of Race or Vertical. Sounds a bit AI generated to me.
During the activity you get this screen:
On the bottom you have the running time of the activity, above you have the distance of the activity and the row above you have the current interval distance and duration as broken down afterwards. The gauge is your usual heart rate zones graph.
You don’t get a rest timer, IIRC, but every time after you took a break at the wall a new interval starts and the topmost row reflects that.
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@2b2bff ah, this is more useful. It is what I was looking for in the Run: an interval based timer and distance. I guess both reset to zero automatically after a short pause at the wall, correct ?
This would work for me, and make the Race S my choice. I do have to say that seeing how Suunto responded to my concerns about the Run with low quality answers, its blatant false advertising of that watch capabilities, the low quality content they are putting out (that whole thing about the “10K marathon”), I have a perception this brand is trailing down… still, I would be happy to switch from Garmin (which I kind of did already, with the Run I have, but will return).
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@tailwind_mrs it does start from 0 as soon as you start swimming again.