Friday, August 3, 2007

The Kelly Rule

New Suunto Team Monitor users: If you are having trouble viewing the charts and summary data of seemingly successful Monitored sessions try the following.

When you want to Monitor a workout using the Team POD first open Team Manager, and if Team Monitor opens with Team Manager that is perfect. If not then simply open Team Monitor by going to ACTIONS menu (in Team Manager) then select START SUUNTO MONITOR.

This will run Monitor through Manager and allow for the successful linking of belt IDs to your active Player Profile list in Team Manager and result in the automatic transfer of all data logs to player profiles when you SAVE session in Monitor. (Remember the last step before viewing the analyzed data in Team Manager is go to ACTIONS menu and select LOG ANALYZE, all data logs will be analyzed at once).

-- The Kelly mistake happens when you open Monitor as a stand alone program, it is not linked to the Manager profiles thus no transfer of the recorded session occurs.

Monday, July 2, 2007

Update to Suunto Monitor 1.1.1 - All The Pretty Colors!

Suunto Team:

If you haven't already done so please update to Suunto Monitor 1.1.1. This Monitor update came out 2-3 weeks ago and is embedded in the Team Manager 2.1.2 update, so run that again even if you already have Team Manager 2.1.2.

If you are running Suunto Monitor 1.1.1 (check blue bar at top of Suunto Monitor software) please read on for the key features in Suunto Monitor 1.1.1 but no need to run any updates.

To Run update go to: www.suunto.com then:
-- click Customer Service tab
-- Click Download Center, scroll down to SOFTWARE heading
-- 4th item from top is Team Manager 2.1.2 -- click Download beside red check mark to the right, RUN.

Now you will have Suunto Monitor 1.1.1 and this gives you the option by simply left clicking on color-box to change/ select the colors for the Heart Rate Zones in both Live Monitor (EDIT menu, HR Zones) and Team Manager Athlete Profiles (select athlete icon at left, click EDIT in middle of screen, Heart Rate Zones).

HINT: If you training is monitored according to fewer zones than we provide, simply put heart rate levels or % levels that are extremely low (i.e. 10 bpm, or 5%) thereby taking the first one or two zones that are available to you out of the live monitoring view and the summary data.

Be Well Prepared!

John