SUUNTOSUUNTO Race S GPS Sports Watch, 1.32" AMOLED Touchscreen w/Crown, 13 Days Battery Life, Training & Sleep Health Tracking, Dual-GNSS, 32GB Global Offline Maps, Lightweight for Running, Gravel GrayClimatePartner certified

Excellent GPS watch, light weight, great battery life. Flashlight, and find my phone features are handy additions. Suunto app is decent.

Amazing watch, tons of features, incredible quality, absolutely not a bad purchase

As a long time Garmin user I wanted to try something new. The Suunto Race S caught my eye after watching many reviews. I've had this watch for approximately a week. It has performed wonderfully. It is not at the same level as my flagship Garmin watches in terms of data collection, and that's ok. HRM seems on par with my Garmin's. GPS accuracy is fantastic. The best experience is the app. Garmin can be overwhelming with the wealth of information provided. Suunto has a more refined user friendly experience. Working out with Garmin started to become somewhat dreadful haha. Suunto is all very positive and it's a lovely change. The only downside with this watch, map downloads take FOREVER. And the maps are not nearly has detailed as Garmin. As a daily driver, the Suunto Race S is a winner.

Exactly what I wanted. Perfect for the avid outdoors/exercise folks and looks slick to boot. Very well built. I’ve put this watch through the wringer and not a scratch or issue. The perfect amount of smartwatch.

Excelente

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.

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.

After many hundred miles running and racing with this watch I have adjusted my rating to a 3-star. The watch has a lot of excellent qualities and battery life is exceptional.The problem I have been having is that in races the watch will stop working. It will stop recording the race data and the screen won't respond. If there is water or rain the touch screen will stop completely working. Ironman Chattanooga the rain caused the watch screen to be completely nonresponsive and I lost all the data for my race.