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Two-minute review The Suunto 5 Peak is a mid-range running watch with two major selling points: light weight, and superb navigation tools. As an everyday smartwatch, its features are quite limited. You’ll receive smartphone app notifications, you can decline calls with a text message if you use Android, and you can control your phone’s music app. About standard for a sports watch in this price band. The 5 Peak really shines when it’s time to start training, with workout suggestions to help you balance your training, suggested recovery times, and tracking for perceived exertion so you can monitor subjective effort as well as objective metrics. The Suunto app includes some rather opaque performance metrics that you’ll have to spend some time researching. This is unfortunate - most other sports apps give detailed explanations of technical terminology, or process the same data differently and present it in a format that’s readily understandable to a layperson (like Garmin’s race time...