Suunto Race All black or Titanium 😜

[Brad_Olwin]

@GiPFELKiND Titanium as weight is critical to me, especially when a single race can last up to 48h. The weight difference on the wrist becomes very noticeable.

[leafs93]

Just did my first run with SR. Compared to my SV, the SR does not feel as bulky and more importantly, the distance clocked is almost identical to my 965 and COROS pace 3. Previously my SV will also clock 200m more for a 10km run compared to 965 and COROS apex 2 pro. Very happy with this new watch!

[isazi]

@leafs93 Vertical is also getting the same GPS update the Race already has in the next update.

[General_Witt]

@isazi Is the gps module the same in the two watches? What is this update?

[GiPFELKiND]

@isazi what an update for GPS? The Battery Modes in Vertical “Custom” will be on the Vertical after the GPS Update?! What exactly are changes while the Vertical will got an GPS update? GPS ist the best in the Vertical

[Egika]

@GiPFELKiND the GPS chip in there is built by third party. It has it’s own firmware.
This will sometimes be updated as well. Even if it the best, it still can be improved, for example to make re-acquisition of the signal faster after exiting a tunnel or so.

[ChrisA]

@GiPFELKiND I got the black steel, mainly for the looks of the all black body, but also because for my purposes the weight doesn’t really matter. I never run longer than 90 minutes and for hiking it’s no problem. In martial arts I don’t wear the watch at all most of the time and use a HR strap, which I prefer for strength training also.

[David l]

I’ve gone for the basic, again because the weight difference is negligible for me, with longest activities being 3:30 - 4h depending on the marathon.
Also wear it all the time so used to weight.

[Brad_Olwin]

@GiPFELKiND Patience, the update will come and hopefully with few if any bugs…lots of testing and some major changes.

[isazi]

@General_Witt it’s the same as far as I know. Sony makes the chip and the firmware for Suunto.

[David l]

@Brad_Olwin said in Suunto Race All black or Titanium :

@GiPFELKiND Patience, the update will come and hopefully with few if any bugs…lots of testing and some major changes.

Is there any chance we could get a widget that would display a barcode/QR ? Given the price point for the Race, I think it could be good competition for the various Garmins for those into the shorter distances as well as the longer.

Or I’m just being very ‘it’s all about me’!

[BrunoH]

@David-Lown an honest question from an old geezer; why do you need a code on your watch screen? Is it for identification purposes in some race or smth? I am really curious!

[David l]

@BrunoH said in Suunto Race All black or Titanium :

@David-Lown an honest question from an old geezer; why do you need a code on your watch screen? Is it for identification purposes in some race or smth? I am really curious!
Barcode is for Parkrun - saves having to take a phone and/or a printed copy. Very useful as I tend to visit different places and don’t necessarily take my car.
Possibly a bit personal to me but my memory isn’t the best but there’s nothing worse than running a parkrun and realising you’ve left your barcode at home. No barcode, no result . Have done that about 10 times in the last 360 parkruns (over the last 10 years).

[Egika]

@David-Lown I think this is mainly about you - have never heard of parkrun before…
At least I am pretty sure that there are many things on the list that are of higher priority for a bigger user base…

[TonyG]

@Egika said in Suunto Race All black or Titanium :

@David-Lown I think this is mainly about you - have never heard of parkrun before…
At least I am pretty sure that there are many things on the list that are of higher priority for a bigger user base…

hmm, there are approx 3 million parkrun runners worldwide
https://www.parkrun.com/about/#:~:text=parkrun started back in 2004,million parkrunners (and counting).

should be enough of a user base / incentive for Suunto to at least look at, i would have thought.

[The_77]

@TonyG to be fair, it would be useful, I’m forever losing the sodding barcode and printing it out again

[wmichi]

I went with the Titanium model. Main reason is the weight. It looks and feels lighter and less bulkier on the wrist as the Vertical Titanium. And to me the Titanium model looks better than the stainless steel (I never liked black watches). In my eyes the watch doesn‘t look like plastic at all, I really like the looks. But: beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

The 16GB extra memory are not important to me.

[David l]

@Egika said in Suunto Race All black or Titanium :

@David-Lown I think this is mainly about you - have never heard of parkrun before…
At least I am pretty sure that there are many things on the list that are of higher priority for a bigger user base…

Not too sure I agree with you about this - Parkrun may not be present/many where you live but Parkrun is possibly the biggest worldwide running movement.

As for priority, it’s possibly going to be on par with turning the face around, dimming display time at night etc.

[Brad_Olwin]

@David-Lown If Parkrun is managed the Suunto API is available commercially to create a SuuntoPlus app that would display a barcode. I think this would be an ideal use case for a SuuntoPlus app. I would enquire with Parkrun and see if you can get this started, not sure it would be implemented from the Suunto side.

[Egika]

@David-Lown thank you for enlighting me! I read and tried to understand the concept.
Priorities are given by Suunto’s product managers, not by you or me…

Anyway, I don’t really understand why I need a barcode, if the watch tracks the run with GPS. What is the difference to let’s say a Strava segment?
Could parkrun maybe use Suunto’s API to sync runs from Suunto App that happen at the designated time and place? Like syncing to other services.
QR codes seem to be a little analog in our digital world…