First time out with Suunto T6 Heart Rate Monitor

October 25th, 2006 at 6:36 pm

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I got my new Sunnto T6 today and took right out on a run on Mt Sanitas here in Boulder. I was very impressed. The software installed without a hitch and the watch worked flawlessly. Below is a what the graph looked like after I downloaded the data.
Heart rate monitor data

The so called Training Effect is a little bit of a mystery. Apparently I ‘Overreached” or “over trainied” today even though I didn’t really feel that that was the case. I attempted to stay my Zone 3 (70-80% of max heart rate 131-150 bpm) but that felt like I wasn’t really moving. I experimented with finding my true rather than calculated max heart rate, but that’s another article.

Anyways day one was

  • 1 hr 26 min
  • 4 miles
  • 1263 feet of ascent
  • Avg heart rate 154
  • Max 183, Min 107

more to come…

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5 Comments

  1. December 9th, 2006 at 9:28 am Tobias

    Hi, Are you using the Sunnto T6 with MacOSX? If so, I’m thrilled, because I’ve been looking for a running watch/heart rate monitor with OSW connectivity. I’ve been looking at the T6 but didn’t think I worked with OSX? // T

  2. December 11th, 2006 at 8:16 am Scott McDaniel

    Nom Mac OS X, bummer I know. Their software is one reason I still keep the PC around.

  3. December 29th, 2006 at 3:49 pm mats

    I compiled a GNU linux driver on mac, made GUI wrapper for it and packaged it in Mac OS X way. So some kind of support for mac is here. No analyzing (epoc etc) is provided by this software :(

    http://www.nettirasia.com/t6exporter/

  4. January 18th, 2007 at 9:45 am Stuart Tevendale

    The latest beta of iSMARTtrain has support for the T6 - http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/

    Regards

    Stuart

  5. June 9th, 2007 at 7:52 am joerg meier

    Hi

    are you still happy with that heart rate monitor?

    I heard about many problems with the belt and battery?!

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