Race S

Suunto

Race S

97 positive 1 neutral 41 negative

Based on 139 Reddit mentions

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Thinking about ditching Garmin for Suunto would that be a mistake?

I had thr same feeling from Garmin, getting frustrated with charging for premium £1000+ watches, then hiding features behind a paywall Moved from a Garmin Epix Pro Gen 2 to a Suunto Race S about 6 weeks ago & haven't looked back since

baldeegoat in r/Suunto

July 12, 2025 4:47 PM

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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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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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I returned!

I can fully understand this. I have an Epix Pro and a Race S. The Epix Pro can do a lot better and is objectively the better watch in daily life, but there is something about the Race S and the Suunto app, that I feel emotionally attached to. Maybe the David and Goliath kind of situation adds to thi

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FarAdvertising3125 in r/Suunto

March 23, 2026 3:59 PM

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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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Going to buy Sunto race 1 my concern is watching reviews there are lag and stutter using it in 2025 does the lag doesn't exist anymore?

No. Most of those reviews were based on pre-release software. I know because I received one of those Race's for review pre-release. The worst of the lag was resolved in a zero-day patch. They're never really was a stutter issue, that was more frame rates from cameras making it look like it stuttered

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Overly_Long_Reviews in r/Suunto

December 5, 2025 1:40 AM

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advice on the right model

For general use, battery life, even at it's worst, is still measured in weeks on the Race and Vertical series. With the Race S having the worst battery life since it is the smallest model and the Vertical Solar having the best because the verticals have larger batteries in addition to the solar. The

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Overly_Long_Reviews in r/Suunto

February 11, 2026 10:39 AM

7

Race 2

Mapping and navigation is most important and the Race 2 does a reasonable job of that. It actually doesn't do a reasonable job beyond the simplest use cases. As a trail runner I am a power user in terms of using maps and navigation, and I could probably write a whole page of text of what's wrong wit

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_silent_voyager_ in r/Suunto

February 23, 2026 7:30 AM

7

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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