Race S

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Race S

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Firmware 2.44.46 (2025 Q3)

Staged update starting today. This update brings improvements and bug fixes. SUUNTO VERTICAL, RACE, RACE S: New features: Support for pairing multiple sensors of same type. Sensors will need to be paired again. Showing sensor information, like battery level and name Downloading maps now enabled also

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CurlOD in r/Suunto

August 20, 2025 8:11 AM

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Erg blij met mijn 6 km PR maar ik schrok wel een beetje van de hartslag 🤯

Het kan wel enorm verschillen, althans wel bij mij. Ik heb door de jaren heen een aantal inspanningstesten gedaan bij de sportarts in het ziekenhuis. Dat is uiteraard met professionele apparatuur. Ter vergelijking heb ik dit naast een aantal horloges en hartslagbanden gehouden. Puur uit interesse. D

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DefNL in r/Hardlopen

April 24, 2026 11:14 PM

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Confused about which watch to buy

I was a garmin user (forerunner 255, 965). Now I have suunto run. I have had it since the beginning of October. I have almost a thousand kilometers run with suunto run. I left garmin because of the crazy prices and because I no longer follow and am not interested in a lot of the data provided by gar

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Plastic-Idea8130 in r/Suunto

December 31, 2025 6:50 AM

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Garmin FR265 v Suunto Race S

You'll get maps with Race S. Payment, Spotify etc comes with forerunner. Personally I've moved back and forth between Suunto and Garmin, lately from Tactix 8 to Race. And with Suunto you get the basic stuff done extremely good and it is lot simpler. You set it up once and that's it, it'll work. Metr

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nicovoim in r/Suunto

July 30, 2025 12:21 PM

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questions about Suunto vs Garmin on VO2 max, HRV etc

VO2 max is an aerobic fitness metric. the watch gets datapoints any time you do some sustained hard efforts. if you're not a "big runner" then it probably doesn't mean anything to you. i don't agree it's a "scam" like the other commenter. it might not necessarily correlate with a lab-tested result,

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goodgah in r/Suunto

February 16, 2026 6:21 PM

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Buy Race / Race S now or wait for update?

I really like my Suunto race s, the only criticism I have of it is the intervals are a bit crap, everything else is pretty awesome, it’s been out a year now, I can’t see them releasing a new one any time soon, although after they have just released the new line with the run it’s hard to say, that’s

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jts321835 in r/Suunto

July 4, 2025 12:13 PM

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Thinking about moving away from Polar, can you talk me out of it?

Short answer that became long: I had a V (beside other Polar watches before) and changed to V3 after extensive research incl. using the apps of Suunto and Garmin (the latter I still use for my xc100 rallye pedal). I had the same thoughts like you between the 965 and the Race. So it all comes down to

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EffectiveGlass2121 in r/Polarfitness

June 5, 2025 2:38 PM

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Suunto Watches

Switched to suunto 9 around 4 years ago from garmin 2 days before a triathlon sprint (garmin broke while swimming) They are super robust, had several crashed on the bike and landing on watch while never broke down, amazing battery life and good insights from the app. I’m upgrading my sports watch to

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gabryzop in r/Suunto

October 11, 2025 6:35 AM

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Suunto Race 2 is what finally allows me to move away from Garmin

When a watch ONLY uses HR Sensor for all calculations (activity, tss, rest, calories) and the sensor literally is shit. How is this acceptable for you? I needed to buy a polar h10 because suunto race s sucks in hr sensor. With Race 2 they should at least reach garmin levels, if not apple. But they d

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sx711 in r/Suunto

August 27, 2025 1:27 PM

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Need help choosing a running/trail watch: Coros Apex 4, Suunto Vertical 2 / Race 2, or used Fenix 7 Pro

Peak 5 is a very old watch. If you look at the more recent Suunto watches even the most basic Race S easily handles a 100k and even a 100 miler. It lasts 30 hours in the most accurate GPS mode with dual-band GPS, navigation, and maps. And Suunto Race 2 and Vertical 2 provide 55/65 hours in the most

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_silent_voyager_ in r/ultrarunning

April 16, 2026 4:01 AM

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