Mixed units - why is Vertical Speed unit based on Distance unit and not on Elevation unit?
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I am doing a race in Europe so I thought it would be better to have my distance tracked in km so I could better rely on the official distance information and distance markers. However I’d still very much prefer to use feet for elevation gain and loss, and vertical speed, which look at frequently.
No problem because Suunto now supports mixed units, right? As it turned out not exactly! No matter what I do, as long as my Distance unit is metric, my Vertical Speed remains in meters per minute (or meters per hour).
I tried:
a) Set General Units to Metric and then change only Elevation to feet
b) Set General Units to Imperial, then change all units except Elevation to metric.Either way, Vertical Speed remains metric even though all other elevation units are based on feet.
Also, when mixed units were implemented, which was a fairly recent addition, why Speed/Pace and Vertical Speed didn’t get their own units like Garmin does it? If you look at Garmin, it allows to customize Speed/Pace and Vertical Speed separately. For example, for vertical speed Garmin offers the following 4 choices:
- m/hour
- m/min
- ft/hour
- ft/min
Personally I prefer ft/min because it gives me a very convenient range of 0-100 that is very easy to reason about.
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