S9 is the top model

Kurt68

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Or with strap? I’ll think it over.

SlaSh

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos ouzo is something from the nightmare

SlaSh

@Brad_Olwin first impression?

**bradolwin added a watch

SUUNTO 9**

Brad_Olwin

@slash said in S9 is the top model:

@Brad_Olwin first impression?

**bradolwin added a watch

SUUNTO 9**

US Time…will try this morning. Looks great, a bit thinner than the Ultra

Will be doing 32 mile and 20+ mile runs this weekend so good distance/elevation for testing.

SlaSh

@brad_olwin live photos please

fleshymutant

@brad_olwin Oh yes! A B2B weekend…I usually get a good case of the Mondays after one of those…

Kurt68

I had some problems with the 24 hour race, the Suunto 9 did a good job. With WHR she does not put it on 25 hours recording but on 21-22 but everything else has worked well. GPS recording was also very good.

http://www.movescount.com/de/moves/move226893107

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@kurt68 great job. So you switched to endurance ?

Kurt68

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos yes for 1 hour. Then I made a few rounds with a battery and charged. That’s the part where the pulse was high.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@kurt68 hmmm. So it didn’t last for 21-24 hours ? (With performance according to my observations and tests)

Kurt68

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos without a WHR with a strap it could turn out.

Michał Muszyński

Can any of the users say if the HR belt works well, or if there are mistakes with heart rate, my sport wrist HR goes crazy and I want to replace it with Suunto9

Ze Stuart

@michał-muszyński take you’re pick: there’s plethora of Bluetooth heart rate monitors you can use! And they’ll all work with your WHR, saving you the price of a new watch.

(Reasons to get the S9: it’s new, it’s fancy, and it has that inertial tracking thing if you’re running a long way, but I think that’s it.)

SlaSh

@michał-muszyński how hr belt can be related to the watch itself, maybe cheaper is to change old belt with new one instead of new watch and realize that old belt was faulty

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@ze-stuart said in S9 is the top model:

@michał-muszyński take you’re pick: there’s plethora of Bluetooth heart rate monitors you can use! And they’ll all work with your WHR, saving you the price of a new watch.

(Reasons to get the S9: it’s new, it’s fancy, and it has that inertial tracking thing if you’re running a long way, but I think that’s it.)

I love the signature you put for the profile

Kurt68

Now I had time to analyze the first experiences with the Suunto 9. I think the design is well done. The watch is certainly a good evolution of the Ultra. Who trains after heart rate should rather take a strap but that’s my opinion in all watches so. The new GPS chip delivers good values comparable to the Spartan Ultra. I’m curious if the GPS recording in the mountains works so well.

Brad_Olwin

@kurt68 said in S9 is the top model:

Now I had time to analyze the first experiences with the Suunto 9. I think the design is well done. The watch is certainly a good evolution of the Ultra. Who trains after heart rate should rather take a strap but that’s my opinion in all watches so. The new GPS chip delivers good values comparable to the Spartan Ultra. I’m curious if the GPS recording in the mountains works so well.

My moves are virtually all in the mountains…the S9 is working well

Brad_Olwin

After a few runs and a couple gym workouts, I am very happy with the S9. The tracks are as good or better than the SSU and the battery life is unbelievably good. It seems smaller than the SSU and is comfortable. I did not wear two watches to compare tracks, I leave that to the experts! The OHR works for daily tracking and sleeping, it is ok but not great for me for running…I will be wearing the belt for runs. The watch looks great and the intelligent battery monitoring is very nice. An example with OHR here and with the belt here.

Kurt68

@brad_olwin
my training is pace based so the pulse is not that important to me. but the example below with WHR shows that the results do not always have to differ greatly.

https://www.movescount.com/moves/move226059959

fleshymutant

Here is a track from this weekend. The recording is very good for what I would consider difficult GPS conditions, deep walled canyon with a lot of tree cover in some areas. Optical HR was great once I tightened the watch a little higher on my wrist (note that I have little arm hair and light skin.)

http://www.movescount.com/moves/move226842126

Note that I’m using a Stryd for power and distance as well.