Summary:
- Lightweight, classy looking watch with great mapping and navigation features.
- Excels as a pseudo-training advisor with suggestions for your workouts and recovery times. Provides detailed statistics to track effort and other objective metrics.
GPS Accuracy
Highly reliable GPS readings. Look at the number of turns made and the GPS tracking of the route remains accurate.
Tested the GPS accuracy again at Bukit Timah Hill and compared it with Watch G (lower left).
The Suunto 5 Peak delivers yet again on its precision positioning capabilities (lower right).
Statistics Reporting:
The Suunto 5 peak provides a very comprehensive reporting on the wearer’s physical condition:
- EPOC(Excess Post-exercise Consumption)
- PTE(Peak Training Effect)
- TSS(Training Stress Score)
See below for the statistics analysis when wearing it for a race event (BTH Mountain Goat Challenge) (besides showing on other tabs standard VO2 max, average heart rate):
Other Cool Features
Navigation:
Suunto Peak 5 navigation worked from point to point navigation on the test route – office to home commute, giving guidance per turn.
Creation of maps:
User friendly and easy to use – just point start and end point, with no visible limit on turns(made more than 10 different turns). Some other watches limit to 8 different points only.
Activities:
Extremely impressed with the wide selection of exercise activities -including weights, yoga, indoor rock climbing. There were over 80 sport modes! That’s so much more than what the average smartwatch offers.