Runs sync, Vertical reads them
As soon as a run syncs from your Suunto, Vertical takes in the pace, heart rate, climbing and effort and factors it into your plan. No manual uploads.
Suunto tracks your runs on any terrain. Vertical reads them automatically, builds a plan around your real fitness, and coaches you through every session by chat and voice. Your Suunto runs sync back on their own.
The gap
Suunto has long been the trail runner’s watch: rugged, accurate, at home on any terrain. It records your runs faithfully, and that is where it stops. Nothing reads those runs, decides what comes next, or answers when a week goes sideways.
So your training sits as a stack of activities you interpret alone. What should tomorrow be after a hard trail effort? Are you building fitness or quietly digging a hole? Your Suunto logs the run. The plan around it is up to you.
How Vertical works with Suunto
As soon as a run syncs from your Suunto, Vertical takes in the pace, heart rate, climbing and effort and factors it into your plan. No manual uploads.
Vertical derives your paces and zones from your Suunto history, then builds a periodized plan toward your goal, grounded in a corpus of more than 500 peer-reviewed studies.
Your plan lives in the Vertical app, where your coach talks you through every session by chat and voice, and reads it back the moment your Suunto syncs the finished run.
Ask anything in plain language and get an answer built on your own Suunto data. Onboard by voice, then chat whenever a session, a niggle or your schedule needs a rethink.
The short version
Your Suunto synced this morning’s run. You held a steady effort on tired legs, which is exactly what today’s easy day needed. Tomorrow we sharpen. Keep the pace honest and it will feel easy by the weekend.
In practice
Your Suunto logs a hilly run at a slow pace. Vertical reads the climbing and heart rate behind it and credits the effort, instead of judging you against a flat-ground pace you were never going to hit.
You finish a hard session and are not sure whether to run easy or rest. Ask your coach and get a straight answer based on your recent load and how the block has gone.
A trip or a cold costs you three days. Tell your coach and it reshuffles the week to fit the days you have left, and the goal holds.
Setup
Talk through your running background and goals out loud in a short voice onboarding, or by chat. No forms.
Authorize Suunto once. Your recent history flows in and every future run syncs automatically.
Vertical reads your Suunto history against the research, gives you a straight read on your fitness, then builds a plan around what is holding you back.
Follow each session with your coach in the app, your Suunto runs sync back, and the plan adapts as you progress.
Yes. Connect Suunto once and Vertical reads every run automatically, with no manual uploads, and uses your real training to build and adapt your plan.
Not to Suunto yet. Vertical reads your Suunto runs automatically and your coach guides each session in the app by chat and voice. Structured workout push to the watch is available today for Garmin and COROS.
Any Suunto that syncs your runs works, since Vertical connects at the account level rather than to a specific model. If your Suunto already logs runs, it will work with Vertical.
Yes. Vertical reads your climbing and effort rather than flat pace alone, and pairs with our grade-adjusted race-pacing pages and GPX fuel planner for pacing and fuelling long days on real course profiles.
No. Vertical derives your paces and zones from your real Suunto history, or from a recent race you talk through during voice onboarding if you are just getting started.
Take the free assessment: connect Suunto, or answer a few questions, and get a straight read on your running in about two minutes. No card required.
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