When I reviewed the Suunto Run, I found it to be a delightful little watch. It's lightweight, with a big, bright screen, and it does a lot of what an entry-level Garmin can do, but at a much better price. It's easily one of the best affordable running watches out there, normally costing around $200. Here are some of the best tips and tricks I've found for getting the most out of the watch—starting with a hard-to-find fix for one of its most frustrating default features.
Make the Suunto Run read your splits in miles, not kilometers
Credit: Beth SkwareckiBut it turns out there is a setting to change the autolap. You can find this either within the app or on the watch itself, but either way, the trick is that you have to choose a type of exercise (like Run or Trail Run) and then, instead of going into Exercise Options, select Free Training. This is the mode you'll normally use when you run, and that's where you'll find Autolap, which is set by default to 0.62 miles. Change that to 1.00 miles or turn it off, as you prefer. You'll have to go into each activity separately to change the autolap. I wish there were a more general setting for it, but at least there's a workaround.
Put a stopwatch at the top of your widget list and start it with a swipe
Credit: Beth SkwareckiWhen you're looking at your widgets, click the top button (it will have a pencil icon). Here you can add new widgets to the list, or rearrange them. Add the stopwatch, and do yourself a favor and put it right at the top. Now you can start the stopwatch with just a quick swipe-and-tap from the watch face. Best of all, you can exit the stopwatch screen, and the next time you pull up your widgets you'll see the stopwatch's time displayed live on its widget. It's the handiest little thing.
Long-press the top button to switch the type of run you're doing without starting a new workout
Credit: Beth SkwareckiThis is handy because Suunto offers so many different activity types with slightly different data screens and settings. If your trail run turns hilly, you might prefer the Vertical Running activity to get more data on your power zones as you climb. Or maybe you'd prefer to just change to a Hike, something I've done a few times in this miserable heat wave. You can also create custom activities if you want even more control over your data screens and settings.
While you're in this menu, you may want to make sure your barometer is calibrated. Also under the Outdoor menu, you can select Alti & Baro, and then you have the option to either Set altitude or Auto adjust altitude. The auto-adjustment uses a GPS reading to make sure the altimeter is calibrated. But if you know your current altitude from a map, you can set it manually.
Make a library of "points of interest" for your favorite hiking areas
Credit: Beth SkwareckiSuunto's library of POI types is broader than I've seen in other watch brands. Besides the obvious—water, campsite, where you parked your car—you could also do some pretty detailed scouting for hunting, fishing, foraging, or wildlife watching. There are built-in POI types for noting where a deer seemed to have rubbed its antlers, where you've seen marine mammals, or where you've spotted mushrooms. You can save your current location as a POI from the watch or plan a trip before you leave by saving POIs on the map in the Suunto phone app.
I used this feature today to navigate to a favorite scenic overlook. You just have to plug in the POI as a Navigation Target under the options for your trail run or other activity. There's also a navigation app, accessible from the bottom of the widget list (select All Apps), and you can navigate without having an activity running.
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