Race 2 - buy or not?

Montrod

Hey, long time Suunto user from the Suunto X6, Ambit 3, Peak Pro, Vertical…

My running has changed a lot, moving towards shorter distances like the 400 to 5km. But winters I spend a lot of time in the mountains ski touring / free touring.

So… I was thinking of getting an AMOLED watch as the 5k is fast, even faster over shorter distances, and I just glance at the face for pace during races and fast training sessions. The Race 2 seems more logical for my use case but if the distance issue is true it would annoy me.

I do not wear a sports watch day to day in the office.

So… is the Race 2 distance issue a consistent problem?

Egika

@Montrod personally I don’t think it is a problem.
If you run 5km, the watch would probably show 4980m or so. Maybe on other days not so. I don’t care.
Others do.
If you don’t need maps maybe also think about Suunto Run.

elbee

@Montrod

You think you need amoled to run shorter distances? I don’t see that. When I do short interval training on a track my previous watch (well, 2 watches ago) with mips did a so much better job. True always on. No need for any gesture to wake the screen (even amoled always on display needs a gesture to fully wake). You can peek at your watch without swinging your arm with mips.

Besides that. Buying a new watch has zero affect on the way you run or train. You want to become better in shorter distances? Do shorter intervals at a higher pace. Don’t need a new watch for that.

Kraisun Tunta

suunto run + suunto spark = 5KM superb!

shamilt1

@Montrod I believe it’s being looked into now, so hopefully a fix is coming…

larrybbaker

@Montrod haven’t really noticed an issue . Seems like a few folks here have reported it but for me it seems pretty accurate.

off242

Hi, @Montrod et al.

While I know this post was from a month & change ago, I’ve come to be disappointed in the Race 2.

I purchased a Race 2 Titanium at the end of March as an update to my original Race Titanium which had been demonstrating flaky battery life—unresolved by the Race 2.

The lower profile of the Race 2 is quite nice, as is the improved charger setup, but, apart from that, I am unimpressed. The all-black aesthetics (even on the Trail Ti model) come across as too generic, almost cheap, which I grew to resent with the titanium model’s higher price point. Further, notifications on the R2 would just “hang” and require manual dismissal via depressing the crown.

So, I’ve purchased another Race Titanium (I had gifted the first one to my son) and am attempting to sell the R2 through Facebook—but with no success thus far; Suunto is not a popular brand in this part of the US.

TL/DR: Save a few bucks and go with the original Race.