Race: GPS Sports Watch, Large & Bright AMOLED Color Screen, Long Battery Life

I love this watch! Impressed that Suunto is just as good as Garmin with a much lower price I still get all the training and fitness data plus great battery life that Garmin offers in its higher priced watches. Very easy to set up and use. I definitely recommend it

Suunto does it again.. beautiful watch, very long battery life, quick to charge when needed, and all the features you want. Super thrilled with this one

Suunto is great quality product. They are very durable. Battery is long lasting ( so far up to 5 days) and the features are amazing. Comfortable on the wrist as well. The look is clean and has a modern look to it.I have had multiple fitbits (trash), and owned a Samsung as well (battery sucked). Suunto has been my favorite.

Very good watch with off line maps. Very light, comfortable with excellent screen.

The Good: Clear display and good battery lifeThe Bad:The heart rate accuracy is awful. I see it skip around 70-90 bpm for an entire run, then yesterday I did a 9 miler, and this watch said I averaged 172bpm! I compared this to my Coros watch, which put me accurately right around 145bpm. My Garmin had similar accuracy to Coros.The running cadence is measured in rpm and not steps. e.g. The watch cadence shows 85-90, so you have to double that number to get an accurate running cadence. Maths while running is hard. I reached out to customer service who said there was a setting for it, but they didn't know where it was located, and we were unable to find it.The 5 or 6 times I have tried to use the "find my phone" function, it can never connect to it. I just tried it again with no luck, and the phone is on my desk next to me. However, if I go to the app on my phone, connect to the phone, sync activities, then try the "find my phone" function, it will work. The problem here is, if I don't know where my phone is, how can I sync it to the watch with the app?I'm getting awful rashes and burn marks from the band. I take it off to shower, and make sure it's dry when I put it on, but they won't go away. The rashes cut open and bleed sometimes during longer efforts, even if I don't have the band that tight.When I go for a bike ride, the watch won't stay high enough on the wrist to prevent from the dial digging into the back of my hand. To the point where it cut open my skin in the last race and I was bleeding from it. I try to pull it up on my wrist and tighten the band, but it still slides down as I ride.The magnet on the charger is weak. It's easy to bump it off and not realize it's no longer charging. Why not just make a clip one, or one that locks into place? This would help for longer events when you need to charge it in your pack.The app takes forever to load activities. I also cannot edit the display of an activity while I'm doing it. e.g. If I'm out for a run, and I decide I want to see my average pace, I cannot go into the phone app and add avg pace to the watch screen without stopping the current activity first.The menus for controls and activities seem haphazard and disorganized. I've slowly gotten used to them, but there are other watches with menus that seem to flow better.I reached out to customer service on these issues, and it looked like they just copied and pasted responses back, and said have nice day. Pretty disappointing experience.At this point, I'm just wearing it because I spent money on it, but I can't say I'm enjoying it. It will probably end up on eBay or at Goodwill.

I was very hesitant to buy a Suunto due to the number of stars but then I actually read the reviews and most of the negative ones are from people who aren't in the demographic Suunto markets to. The stupidest complaint was that the watch doesn't tell them the weather (outside temperature). That's not what this watch is for!My previous watch was a Coros Apex 2, before that, the Coros Apex and before that I had a Garmin Fenix 5. The Coros Apex 2 would die way quicker than it's previous version, where I ran for over 24 hours and still had 60 percent battery life left. I dont think it would last me a full race. The Garmin Fenix died after 15 hours. I run distances up to 100 miles and I wanted something that would be able to hold battery life for a good number of hours. After using the Suunto Race S, I think with the right settings, I should be able to get through a long race just fine.Then there's the Suunto app. I have an Android and am loving the features. You can create workouts on the app and sync them with the watch.The GPS and HR connect quick. It drove me crazy with my old watches when I would have to stand around for 5 min waiting for the GPS to be ready. Also I found the heart rate and mileage tracking to be accurate. I don't notice any deviations when comparing mileage with my previous runs recorded with the Coros.Another thing that delivered was aesthetics. This is a beautiful watch. I wanted something neutral, but not black. My Coros Apex 2 was a coral color and just seemed clunky. It had to go. I am loving this light grey color, which is pretty much a grayish white. It's gorgeous and classy.If you want something that acts like a phone, go get yourself an Apple Watch! Stop writing bad reviews for outdoor adventure watches just because you didn't bother to educate yourself.

The heart rate monitor is nowhere near accurate.I came from the Apple Watch ecosystem and was looking for something with simplicity and enhanced fitness tracking. I really wanted to like this watch; the AMOLED screen, interface, and design are all top-of-the-line, but as a sports watch, the HRM is a total failure.My sedentary HR should be around 60, but this watch, Racer S, can give you anywhere from 120+ to 80+; it jumped around so much that you thought of visiting the ER.During exercise, the starting HR should be 60 to 70, but it started out giving you 120+ again and stopped working a few min into the exercise.I did contact Suunto technical support and tried toggling on/off the 24/7 HR tracking, soft reset, and hard reset. They all appeared to work for a brief period (like in a couple of hours) and then got back to "normal"Yes, if I am seriously into tracking my heart rate, I need a chest strap, but again, that will defeat the purpose of my mantra to keep things simple and common; this is a sports watch, and my Gen 4 Apple watch that I have been using several years does better than that.