Vertical Running sport profile

sky-runner

When watching the Suunto 2025 software recap video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqok4E65VfA), I’ve noticed that the new Vertical Running sport profile was mentioned several times.

There is absolutely zero information that I could find about this sport profile, and searching is nearly useless because information about Suunto Vertical is returned instead. So I wonder if anyone ever used this sport profile and could share some thoughts?

From what I could tell, this profile is supposed to focus on vertical speed performance for events like speed ascents or Vertical Kilometer.

It seems to have the following data screens:
1st: Ascent, Altitude, Vertical Speed in ft/hour, Elapsed time.
2ns: Distance, HR, Ascent, Elapsed time
3rd: Splits/laps - seem capture average split power based on distance.

I wonder if it is any different from the metrics and performance prospective from Running and Trail Running, whether VO2Max is evaluated, which could be interesting on a very steep terrain, and how it is exported to 3rd party platforms like Strava - whether it is exported as Running or Trail Running?

But I think I am unlikely to ever use this profile because it defaults to vertical speed measured in feet per hour rather than feet per minute that I prefer.

sky-runner

Since nobody answered this, perhaps I can answer some of my questions myself.

Overall, Vertical Running profile seems nearly identical to Trail running, except for data screens.
When it is synced to Strava it shows in Strava as trail running
When running, the laps data screen shows power for mile splits.
At the end of each lap the summary shows horizontal speed in miles per hour rather than vertical speed, which is odd and inconsistent. Also, why is it speed rather than pace?
VO2max does get estimated the same way as during running
This profile is supposed to focus on vertical speed, but I found it to be super unstable and difficult to read. Even at a very gentle uphill, at nearly walking speed the vertical speed exceeds 1000 ft/hour, so 4 digits, and becomes difficult to comprehend because it keeps changing every second +/- 200 ft/hour even when moving steady or just standing in one place, so the last two digits are just random noise.